Beauty
acne treatment
best way to use coconut oil
What is the best way to use coconut oil to
treat your acne? Many acne sufferers
treat coconut oil like any other acnetreatment
creams and lotions. They apply it
topically. But little do they know that coconut
oil, when consumed, can unleash stronger acne
healing effect. Why is that so?
Coconut oil is different from most; if not all acnetreatment
products you have ever come across.
Not only you can apply coconut oil to your skin
to treat your acne, but you can also eat it to speed
up your acne treatment. That said, this is the
best way to use coconut oil for acne since you’re
tackling your acne problem not just from the
outside, but from the inside as well.
why do we need to include
“internal treatment”
for acne?
You know what, the popping of pimples and
whiteheads on your skin are actually signs which
are trying to warn you that something has gone
very wrong inside your body. If you don’t fix your
internal problem, the external symptoms will
always manifest.
Slathering commercial acne-treatment lotions
or creams on your skin only treat the symptoms,
but the internal problem remains there. And acne
could break out anytime again.
If you were to use coconut oil topically for acne
treatment just like you’re using those commercial
products, same thing (resurgence of acne) could
happen. This is why sole application of coconut
oil to your skin is not the best way for treating
acne.
By doing both – consumption and topical
application, coconut oil is able to go deeper into
your body to help fix that internal disorder –
excessive secretion of sebum.
Excessive sebum secretion can trigger shedding
of dead skin cells at faster rate that in turn, lead
to easy clogging of your skin pores. When your
pores get clogged, sebum can’t flow out and so,
pimples or whiteheads will pop up. At the same
time, excessive sebum also causes bacteria to
overgrow since bacteria feed on sebum (together
with blood toxins mingled within the sebum) that
triggers skin inflammation around the affected
area. That’s the reason why an oily skin tends to
be more acne-prone although oily skin doesn’t
necessarily cause acne.
Because coconut oil contains powerful anti-toxin
compounds, when you eat it for acne treatment,
it relieves your liver of the detoxification load
so that your liver can concentrate better on
regulating androgens (in the bloodstream), which
are the hormones that decide how much sebum
to secrete.
The oil’s detoxifying effect also helps to keep
your body’s toxin level low so that you’ll have
less toxins getting stored under your skin which
could cause severe acne breakout when you apply
the oil to your skin and it draws toxins up to the
surface of your skin.
As it is also highly antibacterial , the tropical
oil can help to keep your bacterial count under
control to avoid bacterial infection and skin
inflammation.
That’s why the best way to use coconut oil
for acne treatment is to both eat it and use it
topically. Article by Laura Ng
40 WomanToWomanMagazine.com