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•Coconut Oil for Acne
There had been some arguments over the use of coconut oil for acne, that is, some got glimmering flawless skin after using coconut oil to treat acne while some suffered from acne breakout - worse than before! What actually happened?
First of all, when using coconut oil for acne treatment, make sure you use virgin coconut oil ONLY as it is non-comedogenic (i.e. it doesn't clog your skin pores). If you use any refined coconut oil, you can have your pores clogged up even worse.
Secondly, as...
•Coconut Oil for Skin Care Tips to Achieving Flawless Skin with Coconut Oil
How much have you been spending on skin care products all along? What if I tell you something much cheaper but yet can revitalize your skin even better than those chemical-laden skin care products, wouldn't you want to try?
In fact, thousands of people, after learning about the skin benefits of coconut oil, have already benefited from using coconut oil for skin care. So, basically, you're not a guinea pig. And you're not alone.
However, despite the fact that coconut oil does provide natural...
•Coconut Oil Vs Coconut Milk
What are the differences between coconut oil and coconut milk in terms of health benefits? How are they made that causes the difference?
To make coconut milk, you just add water to coconut cream concentrate (which you obtained from pressing fresh coconut meat) and mix them. When coconut cream dilutes, you get coconut milk. Since coconut milk is made from coconut cream, it's still considered a whole coconut as it contains all the nutrients that a coconut provides such as its natural sugar...
•Coconut Cream Vs Coconut Milk
What's the difference between coconut milk and coconut cream? Is coconut cream the same as coconut milk? These are what most people ask. Let me take this opportunity to clarify their differences.
First, coconut cream is a smooth, thick paste made from fresh coconuts. It tastes mildly sweet due to its natural sugar content. But when you mix water with the cream concentrate, it gets diluted and turns into coconut milk.
That means, coconut milk is the diluted version of coconut cream. Despite...
•Coconut Oil Facts Things to Know Before Using Coconut Oil
The craze on the benefits of coconut oil seems unstoppable without signs of dipping ever since someone unlocks its enormous healing power after years of being locked up in the dark. Thousands of people who use it have benefited from it. But as a beginner to this healthful oil, I wouldn't advise you to jump right into the pool before learning about some hard facts about coconut oil and start swimming in it hoping to get the same result as others.
There are, however, few users who only get to...
•Coconut Health Benefits
Tropical fruit like coconut benefits your health more than most of the fruits you've been eating out there. On top of that, coconut can be produced into coconut cream (or milk) and coconut oil to serve different dietary needs for you, so you can gain more health benefits in various ways you eat.
Health Benefits of Coconut Cream / Milk
Coconut cream adds a savory flavor to curries, desserts and cakes. That's because it enhances the aroma and taste of the dishes. You can obtain it easily and...
•Coconut Oil Skin Benefits
Other than healing your health internally such as lowering your blood pressure, curing constipation, improving digestion, strengthening your kidney and liver, enhancing your immune system, burning more unwanted body fat and fighting various killer diseases including AIDS, coconut oil can also benefit you externally, as a skin care product.
Skin Benefit 1 - Smoothening Your Dry Flaky Skin
If you got dry flaky skin on your palm, once it cracks a few mm deep and blood oozes out, you'll cry for...
•Coconut Oil Weight Loss
How does coconut oil relate to weight loss? Eating whatever oils will make you fat is the common belief for the general public. But coconut oil is different, despite its 92% saturated fat content.
Saturated fat from animals and some vegetable sources (like soybean oil, peanut oil etc) belongs to the long-chain structure which makes it difficult for your body to break down. So, normally most of this long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) or long-chain triglycerides (LCTs) will end up in your fat cells...
•Benefits of Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
Before I show you the benefits of coconut oil, I just wanted to let you know that there's in fact no such thing as extra virgin coconut oil. That's because this healthful oil is not officially classified based on its production method, acidity level and flavor, unlike olive oil. So, when companies label their coconut oil as 'extra virgin', it simply means the same as virgin coconut oil.
They do not mean to cheat the consumers but just to tell you that their virgin oil is of the best unrefined...
•Virgin Coconut Oil Health Benefits
No other types of coconut oil can match the health benefits of virgin coconut oil. Let me explain. Virgin (unrefined) coconut oil is extracted via cold pressed (very low temperature) method with zero chemicals added, which retain its full nutritional values for maximum health benefits.
Moreover, due to its completely unaltered (natural) fatty acid structure, unrefined or virgin oil penetrates your skin well and does not clog your skin pores if you use it topically. Refined oil (such as RBD,...
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