The Benefits Of Coconut Oil

Hi dolls!

Many many girls are raving about coconut oil and today I want to tell you what I love about it.

I got my pot of coconut oil a few month ago and fell in love immediately. 

By now, it's my holy grail beauty product and I can't imagine a life without it.

It has a firm consistency but when it's getting warm (if you put it on your skin, rub it between your hands) it melts! Magic.

Of course you can use coconut oil for cooking and baking, you'll find bunches of great recipes online, but I want to focus on the beauty related benefits of it and the ways I love to use it.

• Hair Treatment - Take a good bit of coconut oil and massage it in your hair, mostly in the lengths and tips. Leave it there for as long as possible, I recommend to leave it over night. You can pull your hair up and lay a towl over your pillow while you sleep, otherwise you'll have it everywhere. But well, if this is what you want, just go ahead. Just my little advice here. Wash your hair as you always do. When you leave the house with the oil still in your hair, you may earn weird looks from other people. If it's washed out, your hair will feel super soft and look amazingly shiny in a healthy and natural way! Especially in the colder days, my scalp is really itchy and dry, so I put it there as well. But it can easily be too much and make your hair oily even when it's completely washed out, so be super careful with this!

• Make Up Removing - The most amazing thing about coconut oil, I discovered just a few days ago.  Hold your breath. Coconut oil is amazing for make up removing! Seriously!  My skin is super sensitive and I hate all these chemical make up removers so I tried it the other day and stand in my bathroom for about ten minutes looking at my cleaned face. I could not believe that. It is such a great, refreshing and soft feeling! Well, if you use waterproof mascara and/ or eyeliner, you should use a "real" make up remover for that, but for foundation, powder, blush and contour stuff, this is amaaazing! 

• Face Balm - After I removed all my make up and washed my face, I take a bit of coconut oil and put it all over my face, like I would normally do it with a night cream. It's the best feeling in the world when the coconut oil is melting directly on your face, it's like heaven. Massage it in very gently and go to sleep. You'll wake up with beautiful and soft skin. I guess that why they call it beauty sleep. It even removes blemishes and I don't break out that much any more. Amazing. Did I say that before? I don't know. It's just so amazing.

• Body Moisturizer - Before or while you take a shower, cover your whole body with a thin layer of the coconut oil and let it soak in for a few minutes. Wash it off with clear water and maybe rub it in with a soft sponge. Your skin will feel amazing! Favorite word today. Your skin won't soak it in completely in that little amount of time so you really should wash it off to not get weird oil spots all over your clothes.

Make sure the coconut oil you get is 100% natural!

You get it for little money and it will change your life - trust me.

Love,

Alina