Coconut Oil Beauty Treatment from the Inside Out
The
best beauty uses for coconut oil involve:
- Improving skin tone
- Reducing the appearance of wrinkles
- Improving itchy, dry skin
- Healing or reducing acne
- Reducing the development of stretch marks
- Adding shine to your hair
- Restoring flexibility and shine to dry, brittle nails
- Firming up soft, flabby muscles
- Accelerating weight loss
- Reducing cellulite
- Helping remineralize tooth enamel
- Helping to whiten stained teeth
- Eliminating bad breath
- Improving the smell of stinky feet
- Helping with unpleasant body odor
- Relieving dandruff from a dry, flaky scalp
- Helping to reduce calluses on your feet
- Getting rid of unsightly yellow toenail fungus
- Helping to get rid of athlete’s foot
Beauty Uses for Coconut Oil the Tropic Island Gods Would Love
Skin
Coconut oil helps reduce dry skin and heal acne. This is one of the most popular
beauty uses for coconut oil. When you eat coconut oil, your body transports the oil directly to the parts that need hydration.
Rather than being oily, your skin will have the building blocks that it needs to naturally stop drying out because when your body does not have the needed lipids or saturated fat to form the lipids that make up your cell membranes, your skin cells dry out and die at a faster rate.
Part of what causes acne is that dead skin blocks pores, while natural oils in your skin get trapped and infected. Adequately hydrated skin with the needed amount of fat to form healthy cell membranes and proper hydration of surface skin cells does not dry out as fast, and dead cells do not get stuck on your skin but fall off naturally as the body was designed to do.
This prevents pores from becoming clogged and dirt and other impurities from becoming trapped, where infections can occur.
Properly hydrated skin that is firm with natural elasticity is also much less likely to form wrinkles and stretch marks.
When applied topically to the skin, coconut oil is also a very effective natural moisturizer. Although it may look slightly oily initially, organic virgin coconut oil absorbs quickly into your skin, leaving it soft and supple.
You can also use the oil directly on your lips to help treat and prevent chapped lips.
Coconut oil is rapidly absorbed into dry skin, and the medium-chain fatty acids (lauric, capric, and caprylic) replace the lipids lost in the barrier layer. These fatty acids also perform an essential antimicrobial role.
Hair and Nails
Dull hair and flaky, brittle nails (like dry skin) are caused by a lack of the proper building blocks for your body to continue to grow strong, shiny hair and flexible nails that have a healthy sheen. Without saturated fat, your nails and hair will be dull and brittle. By eating two tablespoons of coconut oil daily, you should notice a difference within three to five days.
You can also get great results with topical applications of coconut oil – warm the oil and rub it into your scalp. Allow it to soak for about thirty minutes, or do an overnight treatment before washing. Then, shampoo and rinse with warm water – not hot that you don’t rinse off all the that you have just added to your scalp. Rub the warmed oil into your skin and nails, as well, for a moisturizer that will bring a healthy glow.
The topical application of coconut oil is convenient short term: however, a word of warning! If you want longer-lasting, more permanent results, it works best if you also eat coconut oil daily.
Cellulite
Bumpy fat stores beneath the skin surface that you can’t seem to shake off are the dreaded curse known as cellulite. Eating coconut oil daily can help reduce cellulite by giving your body the key to unlocking and washing those excess fat stores out of your body. The body needs certain fatty acids to allow it to metabolize fat stores.
The medium chain fatty acids and the lauric acid in coconut oil act as a key that allows your body to let go of unneeded fat stores by reducing inflammation and boosting your metabolism, burning off the coconut oil you just ate and additional fat stores.
Eating coconut oil also makes the skin softer, smoother, and more elastic, so the appearance of cellulite is naturally reduced over time.
Side Effects When First Using Virgin Coconut Oil?
When thinking about the best beauty uses for coconut oil,
virgin coconut oil is a safe, natural food. Still, people who are used to a low-fat diet or who are generally unhealthy might experience some side effects as the body adjusts and as the antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal properties of coconut oil kill off microbes which are then eliminated from your body.
This is excellent news for you, but as your body is purged, it may result in an upset stomach or skin breakout. As with most things, it is best to build up your consumption gradually over a couple of weeks.
Persevere, and you will see why coconut oil has been revered as food, medicine, and beauty treatment by millions of people in tropical communities for thousands of years.
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