Texture: Fragrant, sweet and aromatic, like fresh coconut oil. Smooth, silky oil that absorbs well into skin.
Skin/bodycare: Emollient and protective, prevents moisture loss, anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial. Coconut oil is good for normal-dry and dull, weak skin, dry and damaged hair, mild skin infections and wound healing. An extremely nutritive oil for eating/cooking.
Benefits and uses:
Recommended as a hair and body moisturiser and as a massage oil.
Helps prevent stretchmarks
Useful as a cleansing oil to remove make up and dirt.
Has some SPF properties and its good as a natural tanning oil.
A great oil to use for cooking and asian desserts.
As a face moisturiser, use 2-3 drops and apply onto cleansed and toned skin twice daily. As a cleansing oil, use about 5-8 drops and liberally rub and massage all over face before cleaning off with a kitchen towel or warm damp cloth.
Can be used as a base in soap making and as a lubricant in massage oils.
There are many credible researches nowadays showing how unrefined, organic coconut oil prevents heart disease, enhances the immune system, protects against cancer, strengthens the skin and body against free radical damage that causes premature aging, balances blood sugar, and more. However this largely depends on the quality of your coconut oil - always choose the edible (oils that are manufactured in a hygienic establishment/environment), unrefined and virgin coldpressed quality so that you are able to reap all the wonderful benefits that coconut is able to provide. Benefits for the body include coconut's lauric acid's conversion to monolaurin, a compound that is able to destroy viruses and kill harmful bacteria and protozoa.
Did you know? Coconut oil works very well as a suntanning oil! 50 years ago, before SPF/sunbathing became suffused with fear, coconut oil was one of the popular oils of choice for the best tans. Coconut oil contains compounds that protect the skin from the sun ray's while allowing natural Vitamin D formation to take place in the skin layers. You can find the use of this coconut oil in Suncare
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Herbal Folk Tradition
One tree can produce forty coconuts annually. The tree is indispensable to the survival of millions of people, who rely on it as a primary source of food, drink, clothing, and shelter. The coconut fruit is regarded as one of the most important foods to one-third of the world’s population.
In Latin America, nursing mothers rub coconut milk on their breasts to reduce inflammation. It is also taken as a diuretic. The flesh of the nut assists to expel intestinal parasites; the root decoction reduces excessive bleeding during the menstrual cycle. It is also used for toothaches and as a mouth-wash.
The people of Papua New Guinea treat diarrhoea and stomachache by chewing onto coconut leaves and young plants. Ghanaians use the coconut milk to alleviate diarrhoea too. Fijians apply coconut oil to prevent hair loss and drink coconut water to treat renal disease.
In India, the locals use infusions of coconut flower to help treat menstrual disorders. The Indonesians apply the oil to wounds, drink coconut milk as contraceptive and use coconut root extract to relieve fever and diarrhoea.
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