Cleansing with coconut oil is simple and can be easily incorporated within your daily skin care routine. Coconut oil functions, counterintuitively, by dissolving oil: working coconut oil into the skin will break down other oils already present on the skin. Then, excess oils, makeup and any debris can be wiped off with a facecloth.
One factor that makes coconut oil especially effective as a skin moisturizer when compared to other natural oils is that it easily penetrates the skin. Scientists have found that the lauric acid in coconut oil easily penetrates deep into the skin and stays in the dermis.
Reason to use coconut oil as a cleanser. The oil method contests how most facial cleansing products from facial wash to toners to exfoliants have been purposely targeting to decrease the amount of oil in the skin, to dry acne and blemishes so that skin can be free from infections and irritations.
On a coconut oil cleanse, you only eat coconut oil for 3–4 days. Many people confuse coconut oil and MCT oil, but they’re two different products. MCT oil provides more of the benefits that people often attribute to coconut oil. Does it work?