Benefits of Coconut Butter – How and When to Use It

Healthy oils and butters

Everyone is talking about the health benefits of different types of oils and butters.

Over the years I used olive oil, avocado oil, shea butter, castor oil and so on. Some people say they are great for hair (and if you read the labels from the hair products, most of them contains some kind of oils and butters). The same is true with skin products.

Well, for me none of these worked.

Skin benefits of Coconut Butter

First of all, I must admit that in winter, nothing helps my dry skin, except the Bioderma hand cream. No natural product helped me and no other chemical products as well. Only this hand cream saves my skin during harsh winter.

I tried to use coconut butter on my hands during winter, but except for making my hands greasy for one hour, nothing happened.

I almost gave away the quest to find a natural solution for my skin but then summer came and something peculiar happened.

I went to the beach several times and my skin, although very good hydrated, felt awkward. I can’t really say what was that that buzzed me about it, but I needed to apply some kind of lotion onto my skin. Maybe it was the sun / water damage, maybe something else.

Anyhow, I didn’t feel like applying a hydrating cream, because I already felt my skin well hydrated.

So, I once more tried the coconut butter (which transformed itself into a coconut oil because of the high temperatures in summer). It was the right thing for my skin, exactly what it needed. My skin absorbed it fast and felt instantly better.

My conclusion about these experiences

So, is the coconut butter good for skin? I don’t think that the coconut butter is hydrating. I think it is nourishing. Probably during summer, when skin sweats, it loses important vitamins and minerals, which the coconut butter comes to replace.

Does it work for hair as well?

Not for me. I used it a few times (applied on hair, leave it there for at least 10 hours), but I saw no difference whatsoever.

Can you eat it?

Maybe. I didn’t try, although I saw on a biscuit label that it contained coconut oil.

Anyhow, you might want to eat it since it smells like the Bounty chocolat bar.