Before we get down to choosing the best coconut oil for acne treatment, you must first understand what exactly cause your acne to break out.
When you have too much toxins circulating in your bloodstream, excessive natural skin oils (sebum) produced by your sebaceous glands, lots of dead skin cells shedding at faster rate plus bacterial infection, whiteheads and pimples will start popping up from your skin pores like moles popping up from their holes.
I know, it looks very bad on you with an acned face.
But you can stop those causes and treat your acne with coconut oil no matter how severe your acne is.
With the use of this tropical oil, you can: - strengthen your liver function so that your liver can effectively remove toxins from your blood as well as deactivate the androgens that stimulate excessive production of sebum.
- calm down your sebum production when you apply the oil topically since the fatty acids in the oil mimic those in sebum.
- slough off dead skin cells to remove the clog.
- stop bacterial overgrowth to rebalance the amount of good and bad bacteria in your body.
- stimulate your bowel movement to make sure the toxic waste gets removed as quickly as possible so that toxic substances in the waste won't get back into your body to make your acne worse.
Simply put, coconut oil helps to treat your acne by reducing your toxic buildup and sebum production, hence making your skin less oily and acne-prone.
However, not all types of coconut oil provide the best treatment for acne.
That's because the key to an effective acne treatment with coconut oil relies greatly on its quantity of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs).
That means, the more MCFAs the oil possesses, the more effective the acne treatment will be.
Since virgin coconut oil holds the greatest amount of MCFAs in it, it offers the best treatment for acne.
You won't get the best result with fractionated, RBD or other types of this tropical oil.
And for better-than-best result, use only organic virgin coconut oil for acne treatment to help prevent your body from getting intoxicated with pesticides and chemicals that could gain entry into your body via your skin or consuming the oil.
But there's one thing I would like to caution you.
As the oil contains the most MCFAs which are very potent detoxifiers, it may draw more toxins up to the surface of your skin and hence, cause a severe acne breakout in the beginning before it eventually helps your skin to clear and become acne-free.
So, it's best to learn more about using virgin coconut oil for acne treatment before you get started with the first drop of it.