Coconut Oil for Acne:
The Oil that Keeps
Pimples at Bay

Coconut oil for acne can help you say goodbye to pimple outbreaks. It's as if coconut oil (CNO) was created specifically to heal and protect you from this, occasionally humiliating, skin inflammation.

I have oily skin. Experts have since advised me to avoid oily or fatty foods, and stay away from applying oily formulations on my skin. I'd say that depends on the type of oil.

I'm Living Proof

Ever since I started applying coconut oil on my face daily, I no longer experience acne breakouts. No kidding. In fact, it is when I sometimes forget to apply virgin coconut oil (VCO) on my face that I tend to develop a pimple or two a few days later.

I believe that's because CNO contains an abundance of medium chain triglycerides (MCT). MCTs are efficient in protecting your skin, especially your face, from infection-causing microorganisms. These extremely beneficial fat molecules help maintain a skin environment that's deadly to acne-causing microbes, for one.

Unclog Your Pores

Skin care oils penetrate your skin through the pores. It should cleanse the pores and allow your body to excrete waste. During discharging, the pores sometimes get clogged which usually creates pimples or some other type of skin infection. Here's what CNO does so well which can't be said of many skin care products on the market. Coconut oil pierces the pores and dissolves the obstructing waste. Let me prove it to you.

Try this to See What I Mean

Chew a stick of gum. Then take about a teaspoon of coconut oil but don't swallow it quickly. Allow the oil to envelop the gum. As you continue to chew, the gum would melt in your mouth considerably faster than it normally would. This is pretty much what happens to your clogged pores.

Now most commercial oil formulations can't do this penetrating thing because they primarily use long chain triglyceride (LCT) oils. LCTs are larger than coconut oil's plentiful MCTs. As a result, these bigger fatty acids can't enter your skin effectively.

And what's more ineffective than LCT oil formulations? It's when manufacturers use highly processed LCT oils to begin with. Not only are these longer fat molecules more inefficient. They can even put your health at risk.