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Coconut Oil and The Skin
Genesis Health Products is delighted to offer you a chance to
experience the very sensual touches, tastes and fragrances of
the Pacific Islands – all without ever leaving your home.
Coconut oil
excels as a cosmetic lotion. Not just a patch-up
cosmetic that leaves the skin without any real long-term
benefit, Coconut oil assists the body to heal and
repair.
Cosmetic
creams and lotions based on refined vegetable oils are
themselves prone to oxidization, leaving behind free
radicals in the skin to cause permanent damage to
connective tissue.
Not so with
Coconut Oil. It aids in removing dead skin cells on the
outer layers, penetrates the deeper layers and
underlying tissue, and provides protection against
free-radical damage in the skin. (This damage is often
evidenced by “liver spots”.)
While
coconut oil penetrates the very cell structure of the
skin helping to protect against damage from excessive
exposure to the elements, it does not clog the pores.
Good news indeed for acne sufferers, many of whom report
remarkable results from coconut oil’s natural
antibacterial properties.
The
protection offered from free radical damage in the skin
may also explain why populations in tropical climates
suffer low rates of skin cancer despite year-round
exposure to the sun.
Eating
polyunsaturated oils with trans fatty acids deposits
oxidized fats right into the skin – great preparation
for deep frying flesh in the sun! On the other hand,
eating or applying coconut oil with its antioxidant
properties may actually help protect skin tissue against
the effects of sun exposure. |
