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Cosmetics?
Cosmetic alternatives can be available if you search long and hard enough. But they can also have harmful side effects if you're not very careful, not to mention expensive.
A great number of facial and body lotions and creams advertised are ineffective. You may notice an immediate positive effect upon application, but it won't last. Why? Because their predominant ingredient is water. The commercials are alluring and all but the products are mostly superficial.
Your skin is made up of connective tissues. Healthy connective fibers make your skin strong, smooth and elastic. Your skin needs antioxidants to maintain the strength and suppleness of these tissues. Even more if you have some general skin condition.
Want to know if your skin is functionally younger or older compared to your biological age? Do this very quick and super easy skin elasticity test to find out.
Antioxidants
Antioxidants are substances that prevent or slow down the breakdown of other substances by oxygen. In short, antioxidants hunt for free radicals. Free radicals are naturally-occurring molecules with one or more unpaired electrons which quickly react with other molecules to start the harmful oxidation process. In short, free radical formation should be kept under control.
Your metabolism naturally produces free radicals which are kept in check by two things; the antioxidants naturally produced as well by your body and antioxidant nutrients such as Vitamin C and E, to name a couple. The obvious problem is when the free radicals outnumber the antioxidants, so to speak.
Coconut oil (CNO) has natural antioxidant activities. You can keep it at room temperature for up to a few years and it won't get rancid or stale. No decomposition whatsoever.
Did you know that a coconut oil diet reduces your Vitamin E requirements? Vitamin E or Tocopherol is a fat-soluble vitamin and an important antioxidant. This vitamin is very popular with middle-aged and above individuals. It is often used in creams and lotions for its skin healing capabilities. Coconut oil for the skin has the same effect.
Take it from a Biochemist
Dr. Raymond Peat, Ph.D., a renowned biochemist, has this to say about CNO. "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."
Aging, overexposure to the sun and antioxidant-poor diets are major causes of unhealthy skin. You certainly can not stop from aging. But you can stop free radicals from openly drying up your skin and developing liver spots.
Liver spots, age spots or sun spots are blemishes on the skin associated with aging and exposure to ultra-violet radiation from the sun. Your ability to regenerate skin cells weakens at age 40 or so. Coconut oil uses for skin have never been more obvious at this stage.
Potent Antimicrobial
The uniquely small molecular structure of coconut oil is important for effortless absorption through your skin. Ordinary lotions or creams are predominantly water which renders their efficacy extremely temporary. Pure or virgin coconut oil (VCO) has natural antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties in addition to its antioxidant benefit.
Insist on organic virgin coconut oil (OVCO) as much as possible. This will guarantee superb antioxidant blessings as adulterated varieties are more or less devoid of antioxidant capabilities wiped out during the refining process. I have an enviable luxury because I live here in the Philippines where world-class coconut oil is in abundance. Don't settle for anything less. Your skin is depending on it.
Using unrefined coconut oil for the skin is chemical-free which is almost always a good thing. Pick your pleasure. Apply it directly on your skin or use it in your cooking. Coconut oil will serve your skin well.
External is Best
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. Achieving healthy skin is simple, easy and enduring with coconut oil.
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