15 Reasons You Should Use Coconut Oil

Aside cooking healthy meals, coconut oil has proven to mean a lot more in the
life of women all over the world with numerous beauty uses at less cost and also
effective as home remedies in providing solutions to domestic challenges like
skin diseases, lice, mouth odor etc. Coconut oil is a life saver for this purposes:

Teeth whitener:baking soda is used as a home remedy to whiten the teeth but do
you know that baking soda is abrasive? and with time thins out the teeth cavity,
it also bruises the teeth enamel.
Want to whiten your teeth the safer way, soak cotton wool in coconut oil, and
brush it all over teeth,

Fight against mouth odor: by gargling two teaspoon of coconut oil
for 15 mins,coconut oil contains anti-bacterial and anti-fungi properties to kill
those pesky germs in the mouth that produces mouth odor.

Eye lash lengthener:Your eye-lash can be so long that you won't have need for
eye-extension, pour a little amount of coconut oil into a cleaned old mascara tube,
insert the mascara brush into the coconut oil  make sure to get excess oil out so
it doesn't get into your eyes now sweep it over eyelashes every night before
bedtime.

Eye-cream:Coconut oil can be used as an eye-cream to reduce wrinkles and
fine lines that comes along with age. Before retiring for the night dip a finger into
oil and massage your under eye areas to keep them moisturised, this under eye
areas are prone to excessive dryness hence wrinkling.

A MAGIC NATURAL OIL

Make-up removal:Instead of an acohol based face cleansers you can wipe
out your make-up completely with coconut oil. Apply coconut oil all over
face with a cotton pad allow for few minutes to soften make up, wipe make up
out with cotton pad.

Palm softener:Coconut oil helps to soften skin by helping skin to retain
moisture for a long time.Its a good remedy to soften hard calluse palms.
Apply it as a hand lotion every two hours intervals.You would be amazed
how soft your palm will feel in a short while.

Body lotion:Do you want soft moisturized toned skin? pour some coconut oil
into your daily body lotion and shake up together. Not just a soft baby looking
skin your skin will receive a bit of natural sun protection.

Body scrub:make a home made body scrub from a mixture sugar coconut oil
or alternatively pour few drops of coconut oil to your favorite body scrub,
your skin will retain the oil after exfoliating dead skin cells.

Massage oil: coconut oil makes a good massage oil, you can perfume
it with vanilla scent, your favorite scent or use it as plain coconut oil after
all it smells heavenly too.

Cuticle and nail oil: coconut oil can replace your cuticle cream during
a manicure and pedicure.
Coconut oil nourishes the cuticle and strengthens the nail from breaking easily.
coconut oil can also be use as nail cleaner to wipe out stains around nails
massage nails and cuticle with coconut oil for beautiful looking nails.

Dandruff treatment: After trying out virtually every dandruff remedies
available with no relief, only coconut oil could give me the needed cure
for my dry flaky scalp. Severe dry itchy flaky scalp do not just go away
simply by moisturizing scalp with any type of oil
I can't tell how but coconut oil performed the magic for me probably
because of its anti-fungi properties and its noted to be good scalp
conditioner.


Deep hair conditioning treatment: what better oil to add into your
prepared hair conditioning treatment than coconut oil. you can likewise
use as hot oil treatment for the hair by warming in the microwave and then
apply to hair cover up hair for a while to allow deep penetration into the
hair folicles. Coconut oil is rich in Vitamin E, Lauric acid and good fats
which helps to strengthen your hair from breakage, it also gives your hair
full body and shine.You won't have to worry about the cost of hair products
because coconut oil will give you all the lovely hair benefits of any hair
products in the market.

Pink pouty lips: want to have smooth, soft naturally pink pouty lips,
gently scrub lips with a combo of sugar and coconut oil daily, and use
coconut oil to combat  flaky dry lips all through the day.

Hair shine: restore shine and silky glow to your hair with a little amount
of coconut oil. Coconut oil can mask and hide the fact that you skip your
weekly shampoo that no one can tell because your hair still looks shiny.

Glowing skin: aside weight loss and other health benefit, taking 2-3
tablespoonful of virgin coconut oil as a dietary supplement gives added
advantage to your skin, hair and nails.
Your skin will glow naturally from the inside out, with healthy stronger
hair, with beautiful and longer nails.                                                                                              
  

Natural Hair Deep Conditioner

Isn't it amazing that most Nigerian women now appreciate their Hair and accept
their hair texture."Human hair distributors and relaxer sellers how market?"
am sure market is slow, now that women have come to realize the importance
of caring for their natural hair and are no more interested in spending
money on brazillian and human hair.
With the way women are going about natural hair I just hope that very soon
human hair, attachment and relaxer will not become outdated old school as my 
Dad's 70s Afro hair style.

I started my natural hair journey out of fustration, some people are becoming
natural because every one else is doing it and they don't want to be left out of the
natural hair train ride. Mine was different, yes I went natural out of fustration.
I was fustrated with what I saw in the mirror after removing the mask
(human hair weavon, wig, relaxer) and I can't step out of my house without
putting on the mask because I have been made to feel that my coily tangling
afro hair texture wasn't presentable enough for public exposure except am   
a konk SU who is detered by religious belief and doctrine, 
my hair was dying gradually out of neglect and harsh chemicals from relaxer,
coupled with the way salon stylist manipulate one's hair as if they are dealing
with a stubborn household enemy (hair is fragile and should be treated gently 
and delicately imo)
I was busy spending my hard earned money for the hair of someone I don't know
and would never meet who is thousands of miles away from me or probably dead.
To cut a long story short my hair was extremely damaged from the use of chemical
 relaxer and weavon. After much thought to it I did my big chop and went natural
and to say the least  it felt like a huge burden was taken off me and I was free to
experiment with my hair (I became my own hair maintenance manager and stylist).
(How did you feel on your first day of big chop?)

The journey hasn't been a smooth sail, afro natural hair texture can be challenging
to manage as its kind of a tangled mass and gives a hard time to comb through it,
natural hair products are expensive because they are being imported and the
depreciating value of Naira to Dollar is not helping matters at all.
How about the natural hair salon who thinks everyone on natural hair is loaded with
cash.
This is how I find my way around this hurdles to keep soft and moisturize
(my hair tends to dry out easily and its also too thick and tough to run a comb on it)
I use ingredient from my kitchen and the result?....superbly better than
what industrial store products can acheive.
One of my hair weekly hair theraphy is deep conditioning made
from avocado,salad dressing mayonnaise and oils

Benefits of Deep Conditioning
Moisturizer:Afro natural hair tends to lose moisture to the atmosphere easily
making it dry. Avocado and olive oil are good fat, very rich in omega 3
It fuels the hair with good oil (some oil are just there to make the  hair
look greasy with no added benefit to the hair, one of them is
mineral oil derive from petroleum; a component of most industrial
hair moisturizer which is even link to cause cancer) and helps the
hair to retain moisture combating hair dryness.It keeps the hair radiantly
shiny (not greasy) and silky soft. The first time I tried it on my hair, the
result left me wondering if I was actually the owner of the new soft silky and
curly hair I got.

Detangle:One common problem faced by all afro-naturalista is the tangly, thick
and coily texture which breaks easily when combed.
Hair coil and tangle easily in the presence of dryness and absence of moisture,
As delicious as mayonnaise is to your veggie salad its also a good hair softener,
It softens the hair instantly at application making for easy detangling without the use
of comb.

Breaking-free:this deep conditioning treatment strengthens the hair follicle
and prevent hair breakage.It prevents hair dryness that leads to breakage
and excessive hair loss from detangling



Faster hair growth:when hair is moisturized, it detangles easily and break less
reducing hair loss and retains hair volume. Castor oil is a bae for growing hair
on any part of the body its applied on. Its an ingredient in this deep conditioner
that would grow out your hair fast with no stress and also help out with receding hairline

Items required:
Avocado
Mayonnaise(salad dressing)
Honey
Olive oil
Castor oil/coconut oil
Conditioner(my favorite is VO5 conditioner)
Shower cap
Thick large towel.


Preparation:
1.Cut a ripened avocado into halves removing the seed in between, scoop
 out the avocado into a saucer, mash it with a spoon, add 3 tablespoonful
of mayonnaise, 2 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of olive oil 2 tablespoon
of coconut oil, 3 tablespoon of hair conditioner,mix it up with a spoon.

-Shampoo hair and air dry, section hair into smaller part for
easy application, apply prepared deep conditioner on hair just the
way you apply relaxer.

-Cover hair with a shower cap and wrap a thick towel around it to
generate heat and allow conditioner penetrate into the hair follicle.
leave this on hair for 30-45 minutes. Rinse off thoroughly with  water
and dry hair.

-Massage scalp and moisturise hair with shea butter/castor oil
or coconut oil.

How do you maintain your natural hair at home

Easy Home Pedicure

 We ladies absolutely love indulging and giving our feet a treat with a
professionally done pedicure in a spa or beauty parlor and tell me don't your feet (tootsie) just
crave all those attention, soak and therapeutic massage showered on them? and after all your 
feet comes out looking prim, kissable, soft and oooohhhhh......la...la...cious!!!.

Wouldn't it be fun to have regular professional spa tended pedicure probably weekly or
bi-monthly?  But every once in a while a chic could be short on finance but still want to flaunt
 a gorgeous feet in that open toes sandal, and trust me when I say though your feet may seem
unassuming, it's a very visible part of your body that people get to notice. You don't want to
leave a wrong impression with a dry chapped, tough, calluse ridden feet or a chipped nail polish.
And what's more you should show some love to your feet for being so down-to-earth picking up all the dust
and dirt after you while carrying your whole body network/frame.

For this process we'll be improvising with the items needed so you don't spend too much but
still get an amazing result similar to when you visit a spa.

Items required for our home-spa pedicure:

uncoated aspirin tablet/baking soda
mint green tea bag
home foot scrub/industrial body scrub
vinegar/disinfectant
pumice stone/foot brush
lemon
nail file
nail cutter
nail buffer
olive oil/almond oil
shea butter/castor oil as nail cream
cuticle pushing stick
towel
basin
nail polish
foot cream/baby lotion.
a pair of stocking
original black soap/foot shampoo

home foot scrub:
In the absence of an industrial foot scrub, make a foot scrub at home, mix 1/2 cup of brown sugar with 1/2 cup of coconut oil,1/2 a lemon  to a body scrub consistency, now you have ready a foot scrub. Mix fresh batch for every use.

steps to getting a great pedicure:
Using cotton soaked with nail polish remover wipe off old nail coat
get a basin of warm water enough to submerge the feet in, add vinegar/disinfectant, drop 2 bags of mint green tea for a soothing effect. Throw in some uncoated aspirin tablets/baking soda
this helps in softening and exfoliating dead skin cells, add a bar of black soap/foot shampoo,
remove black soap once water becomes foamy, now soak feet in the warm water, sit back relax and have fun with a good novel/movie for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, remove foot using the pumice stone/foot brush firmly scrub the calluses and
toughened skin on the heels and underneath the feet. Scrub until the heels and balls of the
feet are smooth to the touch, do same for other foot.

Now slather on some foot scrub mixed with lemon juice on the feet, massage gently the skin on the feet, underneath the feet and corners around the toes. Rinse with cool water and dry with a clean
towel, your entire feet should feel soft and smooth at this point.

Take a part of  olive oil/almond oil mix with some foot lotion/baby lotion, gently and tenderly massage
 the moist feet, toes, heels and underneath the feet, until absorbed by the skin.

Trim toenails with a nail cutter avoid cutting the corners of the nails to avoid ingrown nail
springing out from the sides. Using a nail file, file each nail from left side to middle and right side to
 middle direction to get a shapely nail.
Smoothen the rough edges on the nail surface with a nail buffer, push in the cuticle with a cuticle stick, now gently massage cuticle and nails with shea butter/castor oil, this helps to strengthens the nail from breakage and it also enhances nail growth.

Apply base coat on the nail before nail polish, this prevents nail polish stain, apply first coat of nail polish, leave for few minutes follow with a second coat to prevent untimely nail polish chipping and finally touch up with a transparent gloss coat for a perfect finish.

Sit back one more time and relax for 30 minutes to allow nail polish to dry up before putting on a pair of thick woolen stockings to allow feet soak in the oil and moisture.

Note
This ought to be a leisurely routine so it is more convenient to do this on weekend or your relaxation
period to maximize time.

Pedicure is inevitably necessary particularly during the harsh, cold and dry harmatan or winter season to
protect and keep those feet (tootsie) in tip-top shape. you can observe this weekly and in no time at all you will have a feet (tootsie) to die for.
Your comments, questions and suggestions is highly welcome