This One Item Can Help You Create All Your Home Beauty Products
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The all-natural ingredients in home beauty products can make you feel great about tossing the chemical concoctions in your medicine cabinet, but is there one miracle ingredient that will replace almost all of the items in your beauty regimen?
Well no, but coconut oil seems to be as good of a candidate as any in getting the job done. Dominating health and beauty chatter with its benefits everywhere we turn, the jury is still out on just how beneficial coconut oil is to our health. But this natural, non-hydrogenated oil may have many yet-undiscovered benefits and at only $12-$18 a pint, just might be the next best thing in both your kitchen and bathroom.
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Its smell and versatility are enough to make us skip a trip to the drugstore and try our at hand at making these beauty items at home.
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Hair
Coconut’s rich oils are great moisturizers for dry, damaged hair. Try a hair mask using coconut oil and honey to counteract damage from weather and styling. Make a cleansing shampoo of castile soap, baking soda, and coconut oil, to lock in moisture and protect your hair. Help fight dandruff by massaging a small amount of warm coconut oil into your scalp to moisture and repair the damage.
If you color your own hair, rub some coconut oil around your hairline and ears before getting started to prevent dye from bleeding onto skin.
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Skin
Coconut oil can be used in an amazing number of skin products. Make homemade makeup removers, lotions, facial masks, eye creams, body washes and scrubs, shaving cream, cuticle softener, hand soap, and deodorant. Did I miss something? Coconut oil is naturally hydrating yet gentle, which is why it is incorporated into so many of these products.
Most of these recipes involve only three items - coconut oil, cornstarch or arrowroot, and some essential oils of your choice. Try making your own deodorant or for something even simpler, use a few drops of the oil to soften cuticles or dry cracked skin.
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Makeup
Because of its creamy base, coconut oil can be used to create your own makeup. Lip gloss, eyeliner, cheek stain and even mascara all can be made with coconut oil and some other kitchen and drugstore finds. It only take four ingredients to create mascara! Coconut oil, aloe vera gel, activated charcoal capsules (or cocoa powder), and beeswax are mixed together to create a natural makeup with impressive results. Or simply remix leftover lipsticks with coconut oil to create a customized lip gloss.
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Teeth
A simple paste of coconut oil and baking soda can replace your toothpaste for a whiter smile. Try adding mint or cinnamon oils for fresher breath.
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