Vanuatu Coconut Oil

Coconut oil is used for skin, hair, beauty products and skin conditions but its health benefits depend on the quality of the product. The main issue with coconut Oil for the skin is to make sure that you use the right type of coconut oil as most of the coconut oil on the marketplace is low quality copra oil with little health benefits for the skin or the human body in general. The oil is not organic, virgin or natural. It doesn't even have the aroma of coconut oil. So, be wary when it comes to sourcing coconut oil for your skin or as a hair conditioning agent. The best coconut Oil for the skin is Virgin Coconut Oil cold pressed within a few hours of cracking the coconuts. Volcanic Eath’s Vanuatu Virgin Coconut Oil achieves this through the DME Method of coconut oil production. DME stands for Direct Micro Expelling and our oil is handmade, natural, raw and produced within 1 - 3 hours of opening the nut. Consequently, it retains the distinct fragrance and taste of coconuts, whereas the copra-based, refined coconut oils have no taste or fragrance at all due to the refining process. In fact, coconut oil made this way will often have the "fragrance" added artificially! Our Virgin Coconut Oil is not only naturally organic, it is also un-hydrogenated, high in antioxidants (which fight free radicals that cause us to age faster) and free from impurities. This 330ml bottle of raw (unrefined) Virgin Coconut Oil is high in antioxidants for anti-aging and you can use this pure coconut oil for everything from dry skin, blemishes, face wrinkles, hair, dandruff, dry feet or scalp to common skin problems such as acne. (330ml or 11.16 ounces) Product of Vanuatu, South Pacific MORE INFORMATION Why is organic coconut oil generally the best type of oil for you to use on your skin? The answer is free radicals. Most commercial creams and lotions are mainly water. Their moisture is quickly absorbed into dry, wrinkled skin. As the water enters the skin, it expands the tissues, like filling a balloon with water, so that wrinkles fade away and the skin feels smoother. But this is only temporary. As soon as the water evaporates or is carried away by the blood stream, the dry, wrinkled skin returns. Want to know how to look younger? As we age, connective tissue fibers are continually subjected to free-radical attack, which breaks them down. As a result, connective tissues become hardened and lose both elasticity and strength. The skin loses its ability to hold itself together and begins to sag and become wrinkled. Once young, soft and smooth the skin turns dry and leathery. Once a free-radical reaction is started it can cause a chain reaction that produces more free radicals, which ultimately damages thousands of molecules. The only way our body has to fight them is with antioxidants. When a free radical comes into contact with an antioxidant, the chain reaction is stopped. For this reason, it is good to have plenty of antioxidants in our cells and tissues to protect us. Virgin Coconut Oil is especially useful in fighting free radicals, as it is unrefined and hasn't been stripped of any of its natural components through the refining process. Conventional body care products that are made with refined vegetable oils which have all the antioxidants stripped from them are highly prone to free-radical generation both in and outside the body. This is also the reason why you should be careful about the type of oils you use on your skin, and in your lotions, creams and lip balms. If you use a lotion, or cream with a refined oil in it you are in fact causing your skin to age faster. The lotion, though it may bring temporary improvement will actually accelerate the aging of the skin and even promote skin cancer through the free radicals that are readily formed from the refined vegetable oil!