Tropical Beauty Vacation with Coconut Oil on Your Hair and Body

Since I can’t be in Fiji or a trop­i­cal island right now, the next best thing is to use one of my favorite ingre­di­ents Coconut Oil on my hair and skin.  Coconut oil is a base ingre­di­ent in many lotions and cos­metic prod­ucts.  Pure coconut oil is a nat­ural ingre­di­ent found online and in many health food stores.

Coconut oil has a unique fat com­po­si­tion that is eas­ily absorbed by the skin and pro­motes heal­ing.  On the sur­face, coconut oil will make your skin soft, shiny and smooth, even help­ing to exfo­li­ate the outer layer of the dead skin cells.    After show­er­ing every­day, I apply a quar­ter sized amount of coconut oil on my legs before dry­ing off and mix­ing the coconut oil onto my wet skin.

Futhermore, coconut has antibac­te­r­ial, repair and heal­ing prop­er­ties, to help pro­tect the skin against age spots and keep the con­nec­tive tis­sue of the skin supple.

In addi­tion, I also warm a dime size of the coconut oil (amount depends on how thick your hair is and how much you have)  and lather it into my hair as a deep con­di­tioner once a month.  I wrap my hair in a warm towel  for 15–20 min­utes.    Other meth­ods of appli­ca­tion include mix­ing the coconut oil with a base such as water or just using coconut milk instead of oil.  In addi­tion, it can be used on dry hair but spar­ingly use the oil or milk in your hair if it is dry.

Coconut oil can give you the look of out of the shower wet hair all day but it can also weigh down your hair and make it greasy.

Coconut is the basis of many bath and body prod­ucts, such as the Body Shop.