coconut oil for everything.

Coconut Oil has taken over my life lately, in the absolute best way. I'm obsessed and figured I would praise it a little bit over here so you all can be obsessed with me. Texas weather is hot, dry, and draining which isn't fun for my skin. Despite having to wear sunscreen all the time to avoid the early onset of the inevitable wrinkles and the constant heat rashes my arms endure, my skin has completely gone from dewey and glowing to dry and just plain blah. 

I don't have much of a skincare ritual besides being extremely vigilant about washing my face before bed and getting all of the makeup and residue off and normally just putting on some moisturizer (the most basic because my skin literally will blow up if someone brushes up against me). I read a few articles on coconut oil a little while back and decided to try coconut oil instead of my normal moisturizer. If I'm being totally honest, I was completely hesitant at first. Who wants to put straight oil on their face....especially oil that is used for cooking, coffee sweetener, and many other things? I did it anyway, just to see what this hype was about and hopefully find a remedy to the beauty sucker that is called Texas weather. 

I used a small amount on my face every night to keep it moisturized and after a couple weeks, I saw a crazy difference. My not so fun pregnancy skin was free of any breakouts and redness. I've never been one to see any type of difference with new products and was always pretty easily discouraged, so I just kept to the basics but the difference I saw with just using pure coconut oil was incredible. I've been using it every night since then and throughout my pregnancy. I even slather it all over my belly every night, so not kidding. 

Seeing my belly keep growing has been an experience for me but I've been pretty crazy about not getting stretch marks, even though every pregnancy blog is basically screaming that they are inevitable. I lather my belly with the coconut oil every night and it keeps my skin nice and soft with no stretch marks as of yet, but we'll see for the next two months until Little miss P gets here. 

Aside from using it on my face and belly, I've also used it on minor rashes I get from the heat here and it's been a pretty good healer as well. I'm telling you, I'm completely obsessed! I know we are all going to get old one day and our skin isn't going to look like it did when we were 20 forever, but if something pure and natural like coconut oil can keep it looking a little better than before, I'm all for it. Hey, if I can walk out of my house and go to Target on a Saturday without makeup on and feel like I don't have to keep my sunglasses on while walking through the aisles, then this stuff has to be worth something!

So to end my rant, I completely recommend coconut oil for skincare. Yep, the same oil you probably use in your skillet while cooking, that one....just try it!