Best Way to Use Coconut Oil for Acne

Coconut oil is different from most, if not all acne-treatment products you have ever come across. Not only you can apply coconut oil to your skin to treat your acne, but you can also eat it to speed up your acne treatment. That said, this is the best way to use coconut oil for acne since you're tackling your acne problem not just from the outside, but from the inside as well.

Why do we need to include "internal treatment" for acne?

You know what, the popping of pimples and whiteheads on your skin are actually signs which are trying to warn you that something has gone very wrong inside your body. If you don't fix your internal problem, the external symptoms will always manifest.

Slathering commercial acne-treatment lotions or creams on your skin only treat the symptoms, but the internal problem remains there. And acne could break out anytime again.

If you were to use coconut oil topically for acne treatment just like you're using those commercial products, same thing (resurgence of acne) could happen. This is why sole application of coconut oil to your skin is not the best way for treating acne.

By doing both – consumption and topical application, coconut oil is able to go deeper into your body to help fix that internal disorder – excessive secretion of sebum.

Excessive sebum secretion can trigger shedding of dead skin cells at faster rate that in turn, lead to easy clogging of your skin pores. When your pores get clogged, sebum can't flow out and so, pimples or whiteheads will pop up. At the same time, excessive sebum also causes bacteria to overgrow since bacteria feed on sebum (together with blood toxins mingled within the sebum) that triggers skin inflammation around the affected area.

That's the reason why an oily skin tends to be more acne-prone although oily skin doesn't necessarily cause acne.

Because coconut oil contains powerful anti-toxin compounds, when you eat it for acne treatment, it relieves your liver of the detoxification load so that your liver can concentrate better on regulating androgens (in the bloodstream), which are the hormones that decide how much sebum to secrete.

The oil's detoxifying effect also helps to keep your body's toxin level low so that you'll have less toxins getting stored under your skin which could cause severe acne breakout when you apply the oil to your skin and it draws toxins up to the surface of your skin.

As it is also highly antibacterial, the tropical oil can help to keep your bacterial count under control to avoid bacterial infection and skin inflammation.

That's why the best way to use coconut oil for acne treatment is to both eat it and use it topically.