Report: Using Coconut For Natural Beauty

Obtaining more physical beauty is something many people hope to achieve, but using store-bought products isn’t always the best option. Many of these products contain harsh chemicals and additives, not to mention being more expensive and sometimes even tested on animals. If you like to live your life with a more natural approach, then using a product like coconut is much better for you! Coconut is known as a miracle cure for everything from losing weight to helping with skin conditions. It also happens to be amazing as a natural beauty product.

You will mainly be using coconut oil for beauty, but coconut milk also has its place in many of these recommendations. The following report is going to provide you some tips and suggestions for using coconut to help with the overall health, shine, and vitality of your skin, hair, and teeth. Make sure you check out the end where there are some amazing DIY recipes waiting for you.

Coconut For Your Hair

The first area of beauty that coconut is perfect for is your hair. In fact, when you look up natural remedies for your hair or just ways to make your hair healthy and shiny, coconut oil often comes up as the primary recommendation. Coconut oil isn’t too harsh and doesn’t leave behind an oily residue, but it does provide a lot of miracles for your hair. Here are some different benefits your hair will get by using coconut oil.

Shine and Moisture

First of all, coconut oil performs wonders for dry hair, especially if your hair is stripped of moisture from too many styling products. When you use a lot of hair styling tools with heat and don’t use a heat protectant beforehand, you are killing a lot of that moisture in your hair. People with dry and frizzy hair naturally can also get some help with moisture by using coconut oil. It is also great when you just want a boost in the shine of your hair.

Coconut oil doesn’t break down very easily or evaporate in your hair, so when you add it for dry hair, it can actually help you retain more of the moisture. It leaves your hair feeling silky smooth and soft without making it super oily. This extra moisture is also going to help reduce further damage from split ends and sun damage.

Hair Loss and Damage

The next benefit of coconut oil for your hair is by helping with hair loss and other forms of damage to your hair follicles. Many people are adding coconut oil to their hair a few days a week to help prevent or stop hair loss. If you have a mother or grandmother who is balding at an older age, then it might run in your family, so now is the perfect time to start protecting your hair from breakage. 

You can apply coconut oil itself to your hair or make a mixture with lime water and even a little bit of gooseberries to it. This is a mixture often used in India and sometimes combined with other herbs as well. To help with damage or hair loss, apply it either before or after you have washed your hair. You won’t strip all of the moisture from the oil even if you add it before taking a shower.

Help With Dandruff

You may think that adding coconut oil to your hair would worsen your scalp build-up and dandruff, but it is actually the opposite. Coconut oil is revered as being a top natural remedy for dandruff. There are fatty acids in coconut that can help get rid of all that build-up and help to prevent it from forming in the future. With a little coconut oil added to your shampoo or directly to your hair, you can stop being embarrassed whenever you wear black.

Detangling

Since coconut oil helps so much with adding more moisture to your hair, this is also going to benefit you if you struggle with knots and tangles in your hair. You might struggle with tangles if you have long hair, a lot of waves or curly, or if you like to wear it up a lot, which can cause knots when you remove it from the hair tie. If you want to use coconut oil for detangling, always start with natural organic virgin coconut oil, since doesn’t leave behind a residue.  

You should melt the coconut oil and apply it to the ends of your hair, then begin brushing it through to remove the tangles. If you apply the oil to your hair on a regular basis, you should start seeing less tangles.

Deep Conditioning

In addition to basic moisture and repairing dryness, coconut oil can also be used to create a natural deep conditioner. This should only be applied about once a week if you are using it for deep conditioning as that is all that should be needed. Since you are using it as a deep conditioner, you might want to let it sit in your hair for a little bit.

Coconut For Your Skin

Now that your hair is shiny and well moisturized with the coconut oil, it is time to start talking about how coconut can help your skin. Just like your hair, coconut has the ability to replace some of the missing moisture in your skin and really works miracles for you. Take a look at some different ways you can use coconut and mostly coconut oil for your skin.

To Moisturize Your Skin

It should come as no surprise that coconut oil is ideal for moisturizing your skin and helping with any sort of dryness you have. While you might want to talk to your dermatologist if you have especially oily skin, coconut oil should be fine on dry, normal, and combination skin. If you have combination skin, you might want to use the smallest amount and use it less often than someone who has dry skin. Just until you see how your skin reacts. You simply need to melt the oil slightly until it is a liquid so you can rub it on your skin. Let it sit for a few minutes to soak into the deep layers of skin, then cleanse your face as you normally would. For dry skin, you don’t need to completely wash it off. Instead of doing that, you can just wipe off any excess oil with a towel and leave the rest to soak into the layers of your skin.

Remove Makeup

Coconut oil also happens to work really great at removing your makeup at the end of the day. This is great news because you can stop using those makeup remover products that contain additives and chemicals, and instead use something that is completely natural. By using coconut oil to remove your makeup, you are giving your skin some natural cleansing along with a little added moisture as well. Coconut oil can also cut through grease, so there isn’t any makeup left behind, especially with thicker products like cream blush or foundation. 

You don’t want to rub your skin a lot when removing makeup, so gently apply the oil with a cotton ball and leave it for a few minutes. Then use warm water to wash off the oil, along with a mild cleanser. This should get rid of most of the makeup on your face. Be careful when removing makeup around your eyes, using a cotton swab and being extra careful to get too close.

Help Reduce the Signs of Aging

If you are concerned about fine lines and wrinkles, then applying coconut oil to your skin is perfect for you. There are properties in coconut that can help promote natural collagen growth in your skin, which is what helps it to keep its elasticity and help with those lines and wrinkles. Apply a little coconut oil to areas of your skin where you see lines and wrinkles, just using a very small amount. Make sure you blot it and never rub too much, as this causes more wrinkles. You can also apply it to your face and other skin on your body to help block the sun’s UV rays, which also protects your skin from age-related conditions later in life.

Cleanse Your Face

You can also use coconut oil is nothing more than a basic skin cleaner. It works better than any other deep cleanser, cleaning out your pores and helping to give you more radiant, shiny, and clear skin. This can really help you if you have acne but don’t want to use a lot of the harsher skin products to clean out your pores. With coconut oil as a facial cleanser, it will also make exfoliation go much more quickly and be gentler on your skin, so that is another plus.

Keep in mind that if you have sensitive skin, sores, bad acne, or oily skin, you really should talk to your doctor before you start using coconut or coconut oil. While it is organic and natural, it is possible that your doctor has a better solution for you.

Coconut For Your Teeth

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably heard about using coconut oil for your teeth, particularly with oil pulling. However, we aren’t just going to talk about oil pulling. Coconut in general is great for your teeth, even when you are adding coconut milk to your foods or using coconut to create a healthy and natural toothpaste. 

When you make a toothpaste with coconut oil, you aren’t using chemicals like triclosan that is in traditional toothpaste. This chemical can lead to issues with your endocrine system over time and create resistance to antibiotics. You can make yourself a natural toothpaste and use it often, but make sure you are also taking other steps to focus on proper oral health and seeing your dentist regularly. You can even use coconut oil to make a natural toothpaste for your dogs.

Oil Pulling

Now let’s talk about oil pulling for your teeth. While oil pulling has gained a lot of attention and become more popular in the last few years, it has been around for a lot longer. People in India and other countries have been using coconut oil as a mouthwash to clean their teeth, even when there weren’t modern toothbrushes, dental floss, or dentists as we know them today.

Oil pulling is essentially the process of swishing with coconut oil in your mouth for as long as you can and trying to ‘pull’ it in between your teeth. This is supposed to clean between your teeth as much as possible. It is meant to kill harmful bacteria in your mouth, which should help with a wide range of things.

How to do Oil Pulling

If you want to try oil pulling, you need to start with raw, and 100% natural and organic coconut oil. Don’t just grab a bottle of cooking coconut oil from the supermarket. You need it to be as natural and organic as you can. It will come out with a thick consistency, but starts to melt in your mouth. 

Grab a big spoon to scoop up about a tablespoon of oil, then place it on your tongue. You want to let it sit for a couple seconds to melt, then swish around in your mouth and pull through your teeth for 15-20 minutes. Don’t worry if you only make it about 5 minutes the first few times. It can take some getting used to. Try to find something else to do while oil pulling.

Once your time is up, spit the oil out into the trashcan. Make sure you don’t spit it out in the bathroom sink, as this can clog the pipes just as any other oil down the sink would. You can then rinse your mouth with lukewarm water and brush and floss your teeth like you normally would.

The Benefits of Oil Pulling

So why would you want to do oil pulling? It is definitely an acquired taste when you have pure coconut oil in your mouth, and the swishing takes a long time. Doing this for 20 minutes might seem impossible, but it definitely has a lot of benefits. Here are some different ways you can benefit from oil pulling:

* Prevent cavities
* Help with tooth decay
* Freshen your breath
* Repair bleeding gums
* Help with cracked lips
* Whiten your teeth
* Reduce inflammation
* Soothe a dry or scratchy throat

Go ahead and give oil pulling a try, taking a picture of your teeth before and after you do it. Try for at least 10 minutes a day, 2-3 days a week and see if it makes any sort of difference with your teeth and dental health.

Coconut DIY Beauty Products

Now that you know how coconut can help with your hair, skin, and teeth, we can get into some DIY products you can make. You are able to use coconut oil and coconut milk for these products to use for yourself or give away to friends and family for special occasions. They really do work wonders for your skin and give you more confidence at the same time. 

Hand Cream

The first coconut DIY product we are going to make is some hand cream. For your own hand cream, all you need is some organic and natural coconut oil, essential oils, and vitamin E oil. Add a little bit of vitamin E oil to coconut oil in a bowl, then use a handheld mixer to beat the mixture. This helps to combine and get the oil to more of a creamy consistency. You can also add some of your favorite essential oils for added benefits and scent as well. When it reaches the consistency you want, you should be able to add it to a container and use it as hand cream whenever you need to.

Body Scrub

Coconut oil is also perfect when combined with sugar to turn into a body scrub. Use this in the shower or bath as a natural exfoliant to get rid of dead skin cells and leave your body feeling soft and silky smooth. Get a small bowl and combine about ½ cup white granulated sugar with ¼ cup coconut oil. You can also add some essential oils if you want. You might need to microwave the coconut oil first to get a liquid consistency. Combine the ingredients in a bowl until you reach the body scrub consistency you want and add to a container.

Lip Scrub

Your lips might be dry and in need of some TLC. A lip scrubbing product is the perfect way to leave behind soft and kissable lips, just be careful if they are currently chapped open. To make a lip scrub, you just need to combine coconut oil with coconut sugar. Just make sure you use double the amount of sugar as you do oil. Just a small amount is fine when you are making a lip scrub.

Go ahead and try to make your own concoction using coconut oil, milk, or even sugar when you are putting together a scrub. You can make a deep conditioning product for your hair, use coconut milk for a skin cleanser, or use coconut oil and sugar to make a face scrub.
