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October 31, 2007
Cons:
not too good for the face
i've been usuing this stuff for a year now, its a little expensice but if you order it in bulk its an ok price.
if you put it on right after you shower at night then put on flannel pijamas you wake up with deadly soft skin. and this is a lot comming from me cause i have pretty dry skin.
December 27, 2017
Great but clogs pores if used incorrectly
Ive never slathered it on my face and left it overnight before, but I would use it on my eyelashes and around my eyes and sometimes I'd wake up with breakouts around the area where I put it on. BUT, one time I did the African clay mask with Apple cider vinegar and the next day my face was raw, red, and flaking. I didn't know what to do so I grabbed coconut oil and massaged it into my skin and washed it off with a gentle cleanser. It calmed my skin and helped with the dryness and it didn't give me any breakouts. So once in a while if I'm desperate I'll rub some on my face in the shower before washing, that way the oil won't be sitting on my skin overnight and clogging my pores. I love coconut oil for cooking because it can withstand a high heat and it's antimicrobial/antibacterial with healthy fats. At first I was hesitant about sautéing veggies with it cause I thought they'd come out tasting like coconut but it gives them a wonderful flavor. I love using it in place of butter when baking breads and muffins. It's also amazing for stovetop popcorn topped with some pink salt!! It's the only oil I use in the kitchen. It's also good to put on after shaving my legs to keep them smooth.
October 13, 2017
Magically soothes skin
I don't exactly use this for acne, but when I've used coconut oil on my entire face I had no new pimples. More importantly, when my skin reacted awfully to something (no idea what, and I tested everything I had put on my face), coconut oil was the only thing that helped my chapped, red, burning face. As a moisturizer it can't be beat, but as it may cause acne breakouts, start with a very small amount and see what happens before embracing the oil.
December 1, 2012
Pros:
Good for overall health
digestion easier
Cons:
none really.
didn't help acne.
I recommend to eat coconut oil daily. I believe that it is very healthy and helps alot of processes in the body. But when I took alot of it every day, I didn't notice a reduction in acne at all. But I definitely think it could help others with acne. This possibly helps with candida too.
September 24, 2012
Pros:
Makes your skin silky smooth.
Cons:
Comedogenic, clogged my pores. Left me with inflamed red pustules.
I wouldn't recommend coconut oil to anyone who has acne-prone skin at all. I used coconut oil in a sugar scrub on my shoulders and back and I broke out insanely.
December 9, 2009
Pros:
it helps a lot with acne and ringworms. I have suffered with a ringworm for a while but since I have started using vco its gone and its only been two days my skin feels soft and it looks clear.
Cons:
I looks oily and feels thick on your face
it workd like magic
March 23, 2009
Pros:
Works well, multi-purpose, relatively inexpensive and natural.
Cons:
none.
If you get coconut oil please get ORGANIC, VIRGIN COCONUT OIL. It is about $13.00 for a jar that will last you forever! That's well worth the price and the lower quality kind will clog your pores instead of helping. I don't use it as a face lotion though, what I do is put a dab on blemishes. It sounds weird but it dries them up and they heal faster. I also use it once a week kind of like OCM. I massage it onto a clean face for a few minutes then take it off with a hot washcloth. It loosens blackheads etc.. and I follow that with a clay mask. It works great! Coconut oil is also a great conditioning treatment for hair and a good body moisturizer. Can't go wrong.
December 16, 2018
Avoid if you have oily/ combination skin
I used to have combination but clear skin. I didn't know what a spot was. And then in that faithful time in December 2017 I used coconut oil on my face three days in a row and my skin has never been the same. Cystic acne, closed comedones and malassezia plague my face. A year later and I'm still trying to fix the damage done.
April 18, 2018
Think For Yourself
Opinions are everywhere on the internet. All you can do is try to think for yourself and filter out ignorance. There is four awesome reasons backed by scientific research to use coconut oil for acne. There is only one shady reason not to. Four against one is decent odds.
-It is 15x more antibacterial then benzoyl peroxide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19387482
-Moisturizes better than dermatologist-favored treatments
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24320105
-Contains anti-inflammatory substances
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3666817/
-Coconut oil works as a decent sunblock
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140123/
-Coconut oil has a high comedogenic rating.
4v1... enough said
April 26, 2019
It is not that cut and dry. Just because it has shown to be better than BPO in one study doesn't mean that it's set in stone that it is better. The studies also only looked at lauric acid which is supposed to be what makes coconut oil so invaluable. The oil does not only come with this fatty acid. That said, you are dismissing the oil as a whole based on the studies that looked at single ingredients in the oil that are beneficial. Also, not every batch of coconut oil comes with the same ratio of fatty acids. Some batches do not contain so much lauric acid. One person here had normal skin and after a while of using coconut oil, they develop cystic acne which had to be treated with Accutane. Your comment is uninformed and you should delete it.
February 23, 2018
Amazing!
I used this product after some topical treatments had my skin raw and peeling. I was afraid it would cause more acne but I was desperate to soothe my skin. I have been using this nightly since and find my skin glowing and plump the next morning with my acne looking less inflamed.
Pros:
Amaizing moisturizer!