Coconut Oil for the Skin:
Your Natural Way to Healthy Skin

Antioxidants

Your skin is made up of connective tissues that need antioxidants to maintain their strength and suppleness. Antioxidants hunt down free radicals that start the harmful oxidation process. Free radicals accelerate the aging process.

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Free-radical formation can't be stopped, but can be kept under control. The key is to not allow free radical molecules to outnumber antioxidant molecules.

Coconut oil boasts of powerful antioxidant properties. You can keep it at tropical room temperature for up to several years and it won't get rancid or stale.

A coconut oil diet also reduces your Vitamin E requirements. This fat-soluble vitamin and important antioxidant is often used in creams and lotions for its skin healing capabilities. Coconut oil for the skin has the same effect.

Leading biochemist Raymond Peat, Ph.D., has this to say. "It is well established that dietary coconut oil reduces our need for vitamin E, but I think its antioxidant role is more general than that, and that it has both direct and indirect antioxidant activities."

Antimicrobial

Mostly medium chain fatty acids (MCFA), coconut oil packs a mean antimicrobial punch. Many harmful organisms don't stand a chance of ruining your skin as long as MCFA-rich coconut oil is around.

Apply it directly on your skin or use it in your cooking. Coconut oil will serve your skin very well. But if you want your skin to benefit the fastest, I suggest you use it topically. It's non-greasy so no inconvenience at all.

Use coconut oil like any other skin lotion or cream. Long before the very first commercial skin care product was invented, coconut oil was already busy helping countless people enjoy young-looking skin.

You too can have beautiful skin with coconut oil - the safe, simple, easy and enduring way.