What do you know about coconut oil?

Coconut oil has become more popular in recent years, claiming that it can do anything from helping to lose weight to slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Many manufacturers are beginning to use coconut oil in their packaging products, and many are using coconut oil in their cooking. Many products such as fried foods, sweets, shampoos, coffee, and smoothies contain coconut oil.

 Coconut oil contains over 80% saturated fat. Some experts have linked saturated fats with cardiovascular and other diseases.

Coconut oil provides various health benefits.

1. Beauty Benefits of Organic Coconut Oil

Here are the most important of these amazing benefits:

Benefits of organic coconut oil for hair

Coconut oil has many important benefits for hair in particular, and these are the most important:

• Preventing hair from fraying, and helping to facilitate its styling and maintain its appearance by rubbing the hair with a swab of it.
• Fighting dandruff, when heating a little coconut oil and rubbing the scalp with it, and leaving it for 30 minutes, helps to sterilize the scalp and reduce dandruff.
• Providing deep hydration to the hair, as coconut oil is characterized by its ability to penetrate the hair and prevents the loss of hair proteins.
• Add a lovely shine to the hair, by massaging the ends of the hair with a very small amount of organic coconut oil.

Benefits of organic coconut oil for the face

Coconut oil has many amazing and popular benefits when used for facial skin, the most important of which are:

• Remove face and eye makeup, simply by wiping eye makeup with a cotton dipped in a little oil, this oil is strong enough to disassemble makeup, and helps moisturize the skin in place of makeup.
• Moisturizing the skin in the area under the eyes, whatever the cause of dryness.
• Exfoliating and moisturizing the lips, by first rubbing the lips with a mixture of brown sugar, honey, and coconut oil before bed and washing the lips, then putting a little coconut oil on the lips after peeling them.
• Washing the face and moisturizing the skin, by wiping the face and massaging it well with organic coconut oil, then washing the face with the usual face wash.
• Protect from harmful sun rays, as coconut oil acts as a natural sunscreen.

Benefits of organic coconut oil for body skin

When it comes to body skin, organic coconut oil has many amazing and important benefits, the most important of which are:

• Great massage oil, helps relax the muscles of the body.
• Moisturizing the skin of the hands, and relieving any itching or dryness in them.
• Combating dryness of the skin surrounding the nails and protecting it from drying out from the start.
• An alternative to body shaving cream, coconut oil can be used when shaving body hair, as it is anti-bacterial and relieves skin irritation.
• A natural body scrub that helps get rid of dead skin, and this scrub can be made by mixing coconut oil with brown sugar and salt with one of the essential oils.
• Help get rid of the signs of cracking and stretching of the skin.

2. The health benefits of organic coconut oil

Organic coconut oil has many health benefits for the body, the most important of which are:

• Treatment and control of skin diseases. One of the benefits of organic coconut oil is that it helps treat various skin problems, especially the following problems: eczema, psoriasis, and contact dermatitis.

• To combat psoriasis, it is possible to put a little coconut oil in the bathing water and sit in it for a while, and to combat eczema, it is possible to apply a little coconut oil topically to the places where the skin is irritated.
• Accelerate the healing of wounds and burns. The use of organic coconut oil helps to speed up wound healing and relieve pain caused by various burns, but it is preferable to consult a doctor first before using the oils on burns in general.
• Natural sexual lubricant. Organic, pure, unprocessed coconut oil is a natural sexual lubricant that is extremely rare for anyone to be allergic to it. But be careful not to use coconut oil with male or female condoms, as it reduces the effectiveness of the condom in preventing pregnancy.
• Improving oral and dental health. Several studies have shown that gargling with organic coconut oil helps rid the mouth of bacteria and various plaque build-up causes, and helps reduce the chances of developing gingivitis (Gingivitis).
• Anti-epileptic seizures. Some small studies have recently begun to show that organic coconut oil's potential benefits are its ability to combat convulsions and seizures associated with epilepsy, especially in some cases where medications don't work.
• Fighting dementia and Alzheimer's. Some studies have shown that using organic coconut oil regularly helps improve focus and cognition, thus improving memory and protecting against various memory diseases, such as; Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

- Other benefits of organic coconut oil

Other potential benefits of organic coconut oil include:

• Maintaining a healthy heart and circulatory system and reducing bad cholesterol levels in the body.
• Stimulating weight loss and burning body fat.
• Maintaining the health of the liver, kidneys, and pancreas.
• Control diabetes (diabetes), and prevent blood sugar levels from increasing to the normal limit.
• Support and strengthen the immune system.
• Providing the body with a boost of energy.

Important information about organic coconut oil

Organic Coconut Oil is an oil extracted from the coconut fruit and has not been exposed to any chemicals or any manufacturing processes that might alter its natural composition.

If this oil is at a normal temperature, it is transparent and colorless, but when the temperature drops below a certain limit, the oil turns into a white solid mass with a creamy texture.