Everyone knows that coconut oil is obtained from the pulp of coconut, which contains about 65% of valuable and useful oil. It is mined, as well as other vegetable oils - the pulp is separated from the shell, dried, crushed, and then squeezed out.
Unrefined coconut oil, which is obtained as a result of the cold spin, looks like a light yellow mass with the smell of coconut. At room temperature, it has an oily solid consistency, at temperatures below 0 it hardens even more.
Cosmetologists say that it is best for a person to use refined, purified oil, which has a more transparent color and less pronounced smell of coconut.
The composition of coconut oil includes myristic, lauric and other saturated fatty acids, due to which it is so useful. Due to these acids, coconut oil has a hard texture, but despite this, it differs in the skin, gives it a velvety and smooth appearance.
Cosmetic properties of coconut oil
Coconut oil is able to maintain the health, beauty and youth of any skin type, but it is especially recommended for use in peeling, dry, withering, coarse skin.
Maslokokosa is endowed with excellent softening, moisturizing and nutritional properties. After its application an invisible film is formed on the skin, which protects the skin of external factors and maintains a moisture balance in the skin. When using such oil for a short time you can get rid of dryness and flaking of the skin, moreover, to prevent the formation of cracks and coarsening.
Coconut oil perfectly smooths the skin and superficial wrinkles, increases the elasticity and elasticity of the skin, increases the overall tone, and therefore is an irreplaceable tool for caring for sagging, aging and lethargic skin.
Moreover, coconut oil is excellent as a means before and after sunbathing in the sun and sunflower. If you smear the body and face with this oil before sunburn, then in this way you can protect the skin from ultraviolet radiation, protect it from sunburn and get a beautiful even tan. When you take out the coconut oil after sunbathing, it will soothe your skin and cool it, you will agree that it is nice after the sun baths.
Coconut can also be used for inflamed, irritated, sensitive skin, because it has a soothing, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory effect.
Ways of using coconut oil
Refined coconut oil can be used for the face and in the unmixed pure form, because it is not allergenic, does not contaminate the skin and does not clog pores.
Even though it's so hard, it's applied to the skin very easily. You just need to hold a piece of such oil in your hand or immediately attach it to your face. It will begin to melt. Now accurately even layer you need to distribute the tool across the face and neck.
You can smear your face with oil for the night instead of a nourishing cream, and it is good as a protective agent on a hot day and, on the contrary, in a strong wind and frost.
If, for any reason, you can not apply coconut oil or it does not fit, then you can mix it with other oils or cosmetic creams.
In order for the mixture of oils to suit you as much as possible, make sure of their useful properties, and then already try. You can invent for yourself the proportions of the mixtures, but often one part of the coconut oil takes 2-3 parts of the other oil.
To mix the mixture, coconut oil should first be melt in a water bath so that it becomes liquid, and then add other ingredients. When you stir the mixture, transplant it into a pre-prepared jar.
Well, here you have prepared a home-made oil which can be used as a night cream for the face and skin around the eyes, like facial masks or massage. If you want to make a face mask, then remember that it should be kept for no more than 20-30 minutes.
If you are going to add coconut oil to ready-made creams or other skin cleansing products (lotions, milk, tonics), then do it one time so that the remedy does not remain, and when you are going to do the procedure again, mix it up again so the product will not spoil. Melt a piece of coconut oil in your hand or just lubricate your skin, and apply a night cream on top and smear already with oil.
Similarly, you should deal with tonics and lotions - first apply the oil, and then moisten the cotton pad in the cleanser and over-lubricate the face.
In addition, you can lubricate with coconut oil just some areas of skin with damage (coarsening, irritation, peeling, inflammation, etc.).
Massage Oil
The coconut oil should be heated in a water bath until a liquid consistency is formed. It can be used as a massage for the neck, face, body and just the upper part of the chest. It is especially recommended to do such massages after taking a bath or a shower. The skin will become velvety and soft.
Means for sun protection
To prepare such a tool you need to mix half a spoonful of peach butter butterfly oil and a spoonful of coconut oil. With this mixture, lubricate the body after and after.
Foot remover
Take a spoonful of coconut oil and mix with 4 drops of essential oil of tea tree, and then add 2 drops of cypress oil and lemon balm oil. Such a tool should be applied to the feet once a day.
Means for hands and nails
You will need a spoonful of glycerin, as much coconut oil, half a spoon of chamomile oil and 5 drops of lemon and orange oil. Mix and lubricate your hands and nails instead of the usual cream.
Facial scrub
Take half a cup of sea salt, mix with 2 tablespoons of coconut oil, and apply this mixture on the body and face with neat circular motions. For a few minutes, massage with warm water. After the procedure, mix 30 ml of fatty milk with a small cup of fresh yogurt and apply to those areas of skin that began to peel off. After that, your skin will become soft, fresh, supple and healthy.
Revitalizing Lip Balm
To begin with, take a small piece of beeswax, grate it and put it on the fire to melt it. When it melts, add a half-spoon of cocoa, as much shea butter and a spoonful of coconut oil. When you stir everything to a homogeneous mass, remove from heat and add a few drops of phthalic, lavender or rose essential oil. If you have a blank from a lipstick, then pour into it the resulting mixture. When it cools, use it as an ordinary lip balm.
Coconut oil against cellulite
Take the cocoa butter, coconut, jojoba, shea, and mix with 10 drops of a mixture of cypress, grapefruit, orange essential oils and fennel oil. This mixture must be rubbed with massage motions into the "orange peel".
Coconut oil against stretch marks
Mix coconut oil, cocoa and essential oils of sage, neroli and cypress. Mixture rub into the skin.
Anti-cellulite peeling
Mix the coconut oil with coffee so that a mixture of consistency similar to a thick sour cream is obtained. This "sour cream" is applied to a damp body and massage for ten minutes in the technicians, which you are worried about cellulite. After the procedure, simply wash off all the pads. Before using such a tool, do not apply on the skin gels and any means for taking a bath and shower. After you do the peeling, apply coconut oil to the skin.
Facial Tile Scrub
Take 200 grams of a mixture of shea butter, coconut and cocoa, melt on the fire. In the coffee grinder crush the herbs (oregano, St. John's wort, lemon balm) and oatmeal, add to the mixture with the oils. Remove from heat, leave for a day, and then form small pieces and send the freezer. Every time you take a shower, use these slides on the massage lines of your face.