My coconut oil has arrived!! Now what?

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Do I put it all over my hair? Do you ladies leave it overnight?

Put it on your hair, rub it on your skin, cook with it, do whatever you like - it's the elixir of the gods!

I put it on my hair as a treatment to be left on for a little bit, then wash off.

I warm a little bit in a mug and then massage into hair from root to tip as well as into scalp. If you can be bothered, you could cover it up with a hot/warm towel or leave it be for 30mins to an hour and then wash out. Do it weekly and it should do great things for your hair.

I work it through my dry hair at night before bed and leave it on overnight. It's made a real difference to the condition of my hair.

I cleanse with it as well, again it's been fab!

BTW did you know you can buy coconut body oil very cheaply in Boots? About £2 for a 100 ml jar. It says on the jar it is pure coconut oil so I presume you can put it on your hair too...It's amazing stuff, it goes really running and transparent when hot and solid and opaque again when cold and smells fantastic!

I use a similar amount to what I would of serum, ie just a few drops, and rub it into the middle to ends of my hair as soon as I'm not going out anywhere before I wash my hair iyswim, so if I'm going to wash my hair Fri morning I'd put it on when I get home on Thurs. It can make pillowcase a bit greasy which is why I do this rather than cover hair in it overnight, it absorbs a bit before head hits pillow.

Works wonders on my frizzy halo.

I use the organic virgin coconut oil from Tesco, was about £6 iirc but lasts forever.

The stuff from boots has some additives in it but is still fab for hair and skin. I've been using the extra virgin organic stuff for cooking, it leaves a faint but pleasant coconutty taste.

What sort of hair do you have OP? I have extremely dry, frizzy, curly hair - I add coconut oil to soaking wet hair, mid-lengths to ends, then add a leave-in conditioner on top, wrap in towel for 15 minutes and air dry. I get much fewer knots since I started using it.

My hair is very long and thick! Dry and frizzy as well!! I am worried if I add to dry hair it will take the whole tub is because I have so much hair!

I put it on dry hair and leave it for as long as possible, around an hour usually.

Doesn't it make the pillow all greasy if you leave it on overnight?

Never put it on hair do you just rinse it out or use shampoo.

Sun - you need to shampoo it out, it's really greasy so you sometimes need to do two shampoos! It leaves it looking thick and shiny tho

Right. Stopping off at Boots on my way home to make a purchase. Am off out tomorrow night (a very rare occurence) and would very much like my hair to lose some of its frizz (just past shoulder length, over-dyed with split ends). I did get some Lee Stafford Argan oil but it hasn't fulfilled its promise sadly...

Can someone do a link to the boots one please. I can only see coconut body oils or are these the ones you can add to your hair too? The boots one I saw was £2.54 is that the right one?

I have bought some expensive stuff in the past, but yesterday in Sainsbo's I spotted a huge tub in the World Foods section - it was about £1.60 and is 100% pure cocnut Oil, nothing added. Exactly the same as the dear stuff I bought. I'm using it to cook with at the moment.

yes I think that is the one big, it's in a very unassuming glass pot thing with a screw top lid. And foosty that is even better value in Sainsbury's, will take a look at the weekend, thanks!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes. LOVE CO.

It doesn't make pillows stain - I've used it on cotton and also silk pillows and all fine. I leave it on overnight and wash out in the morning. Make a top ponytail on your head, saturate and twist into a knot.

I bang on about CO all the time, it's terrific. I use it to cleanse, as a body moisturiser, to get rid of DS's ezcema, as a treatment for DH psiorasis (SP?) and for cuticles/hands overnight.

Huge love for coconut oil here too. I cook with it & use it as an all round beauty product.

It is great for athletes foot, which DS suffers from really badly (as he insists on encasing his feet in trainers), as CO is full of anti-fungal thingys.

Great moisturiser, lipsalve, hair treatment and works really well in cooking too. It has a much higher burn point than vegetable/fruit oils, so great for flash flying. Flavour is very subtle, so you don't need to worry about being overwhelmed by coconut.

Bought some this lunchtime. I am expecting great things I tell you. It was £2.54 for a 100ml pot in Boots.

I don't think it's the pure stuff so wouldn't be able to cook with it but nice to know it works on athlete's foot Post as DS2 suffers... although I might get him his own pot

I have the Boots one, as well as some extra virgin stuff, and although the Boots one smells, and behaves the same (in consitency/melting terms), it also has added ingredients, so isn't pure.

They do it in superdrug too, £1.99 for a pot, I am trying as a deep conditioner to sort out dd's very dry ends-it's a last ditch attempt as otherwise I think she may have to lose about 6 inches and she would be gutted.

Any advice anyone has on caring for very long fine wavy hair would be appreciated, I've always had short hair so I am hopeless.

Oh coconut oil is amazing

I use it as an overnight hair treatment, a body moisturiser, in cooking, on my face, for cleansing, its lovely

i use the pink sun organic stuff

Hugo, regular decent trims are what's needed. A good inch to start with and bi-weekly intense conditioner (or coconut oil) and then just half an inch every six weeks.

I know she should have it cut more often, but she is really not keen.

It also grows really slowly, half an inch every 6 weeks would mean she would have crop in a few years time.

Dors it make your hair very grasy?