Coconut oil - secretion of beauty of Indians

Indians were always famous for magnificent hair and good skin,
beautiful, suntanned, shining. The secret of beauty consists in use for personal care of natural coconut oil. It is considered one of the most ancient medicines of vegetable raw materials in the world. More than four thousand years ago the Indian healers knew of advantage of coconut oil for human health. And now scientists continue to open its new useful properties.

Coconut oil strengthens, feeds hair, adds them gloss. It adds splendor and gloss to the dry and exhausted by impact of wind, the sun, the sea, frequent colourings and chemical waves hair. Strengthens, gives them beauty and softness. Coconut oil is easily washed away, perfectly proves to be in use of means for improvement of quality of suntan, for prevention of burns and long maintaining suntan and its fixing. It is to ideal means of protection of hair during a resort season, at the same time is put before acceptance of solar and sea bathtubs. Coconut oil is fine means of fixing of color and giving of the shining beauty to hair after coloring by henna and basmy. It is used in the form of a mask - of 20 min. till 3 o'clock, later it is washed away by shampoo. After washing off does not leave marks.

Coconut oil consists of triglycerides and srednetsepny saturated fatty acids thanks to what it is absorbed very quickly, remarkably humidifies and gives to skin velvet. In particular, laurinovy acid negatively affects various pathogenic microorganisms, bacteria, yeast, mushrooms and viruses. Also coconut oil contains kaprinovy acid (7% of fat and acid structure) which stimulates antimicrobic activity.

Coconut oil reduces losses of protein of hair during washing. The butter layer on hair protects fibers from swelling and also damage - during wipe by a towel and combing.

Bathtub of Cleopatra

All know about wonderful milk pans of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. It is much written about miracle properties of milk of a she-ass which used Egyptian beauties. However, very few people know that Cleopatra added coconut oil to milk, and this combination did her skin velvet and gentle.

House recipe

Pour out two tablespoons of pure coconut oil in a glass bowl then place it for 10 minutes on a water bath until oil is warmed. Rub oil in the head on hair partings, from roots to tips, you will not process each lock yet. Finger-tips massage the head with circular motions. Leave oil at least for an hour (or for the night for strengthening of medical effect), and then wash away shampoo.