Protection from the sun
Although it is not as effective as actual sunscreen which protect you from UV rays at 90%, coconut oil can reveal itself quite handy in case of little heat because researches have revealed that this dear product can protect us from UV ray at 20% which is quite impressive coming from a natural ingredient. If you do not like sunscreen and chemicals on your skin, try some mixes or homemade sunscreen recipe with coconut oil you might find the recipe for happiness who knows?
Relieve from insect bites and stings
Coconut oil has a lot of anti-inflammatory properties. These can help relieve the pain or itch caused by insect bites or stings. Which reveals itself to be very useful especially in summer time with the mosquitoes and insects’ party.
Hair care
Lauric acid is the main fatty acid in coconut oil, and this acid can penetrate the hair shaft in a way that most other fats can’t. Coconut oil Is thus one of the best if not the favourite oil choice to prevent hair damage and reduce protein loss in the hair. Women in tropical coastal regions uses this for their hair almost daily. It is also an excellent conditioner and helps a healthy growth of the hair. So if you are struggling with dry and breaking hair use coconut oil and a little plus on top of that is that it smells incredibly good.
Improve wound healing
If you are trying to speed the healing process of minor cuts or scrap do not look further, coconut oil is the answer. Researches have demonstrated the oil’s ability to reduce inflammatory markers and increase production of collagen which is a major skin component. Who would think that an underrated oil could do that?
Remove stains
Here you may think yes coconut oil is very useful for our health and body, but does it help us with our cleaning? Yes, it does. Coconut oil can be used as a stains remover. Spilled product or other stains? No problem coconut oil got you. Mix it with baking soda to obtain a very powerful solution that will help you get ride of any stains. Apply the paste to the stain wait 5 minutes and wipe away.
Remove eye makeup
Now I know what you think does coconut oil get more wonderful and handy than that? Well let me tell you something, it does. Here is a tip for all women, if you are scared or do not like to use makeup remover on your eyes, coconut oil is a natural, harmless and effective eye makeup remover. Simply apply the oil with a cotton pad and wipe gently the eyes until all traces of makeup are gone.
Improve liver health
Researches have found that the saturated fats in coconut oil can help protect the liver from damage due to alcohol or toxin exposure. This fat helps decrease in inflammatory liver markers and increase activity of beneficial liver enzymes. So after using coconut oil for your body and cleaning do not forget to use it in your food because this product has incredible health benefits.
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