Tired of watching your hair lying all over your bathroom floor? Sick of spreading creams and serums with utmost care only to find strands dangle on your hands? Have you lost hope in reviving the luster your hair once had? If you’ve answered a loud yes to the questions above then you belong among the innumerable, despaired people who have sought long desperate years for the birth of a product which would be successful in bringing back the vivacity and brilliance of their beloved locks. Just when they thought they have carefully scrutinized every hair item in every beauty shop, they have carelessly overlooked the answer to their dilemma. Apparently, people coming especially from the tropical areas have long known of the resolution to these predicaments, and they have long celebrated the wonders of the humble, sweet-smelling coconut oil.
Regarded as the “healthiest oil on earth”, coconut oil has been extensively used not only in cooking but for its other utilities too. Heaven sent, it is filled with bountiful privileges to anyone who puts faith in it. Living witnesses swear by the effectiveness of coconut oil as a hair-growth stimulator that brings out shiny and strong hair. Folks who religiously apply coconut oil claim of a glossy, soft, and rejuvenated hair and women living in the tropical areas that are well over their ages have managed to avoid its greying. Intense shine is achieved because of its efficiency as a hair moisturizer and it can be accounted to its structure.
Coconut oil is a category under fatty acids specifically medium chain fatty acids or medium chain triglycerides. These are structures that are minute and can easily penetrate the hair, seep through the inside and execute its activity quick. It is not easily evaporated thus retains moisture and keeps it soft at the same time for long. Also, its moisture-retaining capacity continues to coat and nourish the hair shaft so whether your scalp is dry or is infected by some type of fungus, you can rest at the fact that you’d be rid of dandruff.
In coconut oil, these medium chain triglycerides are in the form of lauric acid or capric acid which, after some bacterial action yields its simpler form: lauric acid to monolaurin and capric acid monocaprin. These cleaved products have strong antibacterial action that could keep microbes at bay. Commercial products may offer impressive anti-dandruff formulations but proteins, which are the main component of the hair is washed away along with shampooing and this could only lead to hair weakness and vulnerability. This is one among the many roots of all those hair breakages, hair loss, and split ends. The latter being the eventual result after the exposure of the cortex, the second layer of the hair. When there is substantial loss of proteins, the cuticle or the outermost stratum of the hair which are described as having the likeness of roof shingles whose cells are supposed to lie flat begins to split away revealing the next layer. This is why splits ends looked divided.
With the advent of hair wax, conditioners and balms, it’s not puzzling why people have been blinded by them. Persuasive and persistent marketing strategies lead humanity to bank on the claims of these products and to hold tight to their guaranteed efficacy but in the end find themselves lost in those promises. Without second thoughts, they easily lay down bucks as quickly as they would believe the models vouching for the proven integrity of their hair merchandises. But when we start believing and learning to test the waters of nature, we can only discover how sufficiently it supplies our needs. In the end, the best things in life are still free.
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