How Coconut Oil Can Transform Your Skincare Routine

Every once in a while, a new product or ingredient hits the market in a particularly poignant way. Coconut oil is nothing new and it’s certainly not a newfangled trend in skincare. In recent years, however, coconut oil has made a big splash for being beneficial for skin, and for good reason. 

The benefits of coconut oil on skin are uncontested. Nourishing, soothing, hydrating, and anti-inflammatory, this “health food” isn’t just for food. Your skin can eat it up as well! It’s an equally fantastic ingredient across a wide variety of skincare products, making it a vital addition to your routine if it’s not already part of it. 

Learning about why coconut oil is good for your skin and the advantages it may offer is important, but so is finding the right products to help you reap the rewards of its nourishing goodness. 

A Rundown of Coconut Oil

Coconut oil has a longstanding history of being a cooking ingredient. Its unique combination of fatty acids offers various health benefits, but those don’t only extend to the oil when it’s used in food. Coconut oil is good for your skin as well.

Because coconut oil is rich in fatty acids, including lauric acid, myristic acid, caprylic acid, and palmitic acid, it provides a host of moisturizing and nourishing qualities directly to the surface of the skin. Not only that, but the high fat content helps your skin preserve moisture so it doesn’t evaporate as quickly. This delivers the long-lasting healing properties you need for current and future skin health.

Benefits of Coconut Oil for Skin

Moisturization is a vital component of coconut oil, but the perks don’t stop there. There are so many additional reasons to look for coconut oil in skincare products. The benefits this ingredient stands to offer include:

• Intense Moisturization. The way coconut oil penetrates past the skin’s outermost layer and goes deep into the sub layers makes it extremely effective at preserving the integrity of your skin. It creates a barrier that helps keep moisture in so your skin can remain at its healthiest.
• Antioxidant Properties. Our skin is exposed to free radicals all of the time due to pollution, the sun, and the elements in the world around us. Antioxidants help combat the damage free radicals cause, which may help prevent signs of aging like wrinkles, fine lines, and dullness.  
• Antibacterial Agent. The lauric acid within coconut oil is a natural antibacterial and antifungal agent, making it great for keeping skin healthy in all regards.
• Anti-Inflammatory Properties. Calming and soothing, coconut oil helps minimize inflammation to leave you with less redness and irritation. 

Skincare Products with Coconut Oil

There are so many skincare products with coconut oil, which is both a good and a not-so-good thing. The good part of it is that the beauty and skincare industry has fully caught on to coconut oil’s benefits for skin. The less-than-ideal component is that it can be hard to decipher the truly high-quality products from the rest. That is, unless you know how the products were made and the beauty company’s approach to skincare in general. 

At Malie Organics, our coconut oil skin care products are made with compassion, integrity, and good manufacturing practices. We never test on animals, use organic and natural components, and source high-quality ingredients to deliver our customers with nothing but the best. We are adamant about the fact that anything that goes onto the face, skin, hair, body, or is placed in the home must be safe for all inhabitants of our Earth.

Many of our skincare products within Malie Organics’ BotanyBeauty line contain coconut oil. Some of these include:

BotanyBeauty Illuminating Moisturizer

This lightweight moisturizer is an essential daily drink for your skin. A complex, yet balanced blend of clove essential oil, organic juniper, and organic cayenne helps prevent excess oil production. All the while, coconut oil helps preserve moisturization. This allows for congested or blemished skin to heal, repair, and clarify without drying, redness or inflammation. The result? Brighter skin and an enhanced appearance of healthy radiance.

BotanyBeauty Firming Cream

This firming cream is designed for skin of all ages but is specifically intended to target skin concerns of dullness and dryness as well as fine lines and wrinkles. It’s great for mature skin as an addition to any existing skincare routine. 

Additionally, three of the most highly sought-after coconut oil-based products for the body include our Body Gloss, Luxe Cream Soap, and Body Cream.

Malie Organics’ Body Gloss

Like lip gloss for your whole body, Malie Organics’ Body Gloss is the coconut oil based skin care product your body has been craving. A beauty industry first, this product is a blend of organic botanical butters whipped with extra virgin coconut oil. This forms a thick, smooth mixture that effortlessly glides onto the skin. It absorbs immediately, leaving skin silky and radiant. It lasts longer than lotion and is more luscious than you could imagine. Apply to wet or dry skin. 

What makes this coconut oil product so great for your skin is the way it harnesses the lush hydration of the tropics. The coconut base combined with organic mango, aloe, and macadamia nut butters creates a unique, deluxe formula. Just one application and your skincare routine will be totally transformed.

Available in Tiare, Plumeria, Pikake, Koke’e, Mango Nectar, Pineapple, and Coconut Vanilla scents.

Malie Organics’ Luxe Cream Soap

Luxury hand and skin care doesn’t get better than Malie Organics’ Luxe Cream Soap. Made with coconut oil, this organic bar soap offers a luxurious experience through and through. Who knew a simple bar soap could be so transformative for your skin? Key ingredients include coconut oil, olive oil, and cocoa seed butter. Equally important to the ingredients, however, is how this coconut oil soap is made. The cold process method preserves the integrity of these natural ingredients so they last even longer than traditional soap.

Not only is our Luxe Cream Soap moisturizing, nourishing, and cleansing, but it also works up such a nice lather that it can be used for shaving. All the while, it preserves the skin’s natural oil production so you’ll never have to worry about drying out your skin. It’ also paraben, petroleum, and sulfate-free and is suitable for all skin types.

Available in Koke’e, Mango Nectar, Plumeria, Pikake, and Tiare scents.

Malie Organics’ Body Cream 

The benefits of coconut oil for skin can really be experienced on the entire body with Malie Organics’ Body Cream. Formulated with organic extra virgin coconut oil and kukui nut oil, this total body moisturizer targets dry skin and helps protect against the elements (i.e., free radicals, UV rays, etc.). It delivers long-lasting hydration for all skin types and absorbs fast without leaving behind a greasy feel. Let your body soak up all the goodness of coconut oil amid 70% organic ingredients in a bottle made from 100% Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) Material.

Available in Koke’e, Mango Nectar, Plumeria, Pikake, and Tiare scents. Also available in travel-friendly mini sizes (2.5 oz).

Who Should Use Coconut Oil for Skin?

Safe for most skin types, coconut oil is generally non-irritating and is unlikely to cause negative reactions on the skin. As always, however, it’s best to check with your doctor if you have specific concerns.

How to Incorporate Coconut Oil Into Your Skincare Routine

The best way to bring coconut oil into your skincare routine and make it work for you is to seek out products that already naturally contain it. You may be surprised to find that some of your favorite products actually have coconut oil as one of their ingredients. This is certainly going to be the case if you use Malie Organics’ skin care products.

When evaluating potential products, look into the manufacturing processes of the companies to make sure quality comes above all else. If possible, avoid products that contain parabens, sulfates, phthalates, petrochemicals, mineral oil, silicone, talc, alcohol, PEGs, and gluten. Ideally, you’ll also opt for artificial free coconut skincare products, as these will give you the best chance at optimal results. 

Try your best to find a reliable, clean skincare collection, Malie Organics’ BotanyBeauty prides itself on using the best plant science available to deliver simple, high-quality products to our customers that really make a difference. 

Are you ready to experience your best skin yet? Coconut oil could be the very thing you’re missing. Transform your skincare routine today with the addition of this one simple ingredient: coconut oil!