Skin Benefits of Coconut Oil

A small bottle of coconut oil next to a coconut.

Using coconut oil on your skin can be the difference between flaky, dry skin, and soft, glowing skin, as this oil is known for its moisturizing benefits. Widely used in skin creams, soaps and lotions for its effectiveness in fighting dry skin, coconut oil also helps to sooth various other types of skin conditions.

Moisturizing, Antiaging and Antiviral Properties

Coconut oil is a powerful moisturizer that is beneficial to restoring dry or flaking skin. Unlike your average moisturizer that contains a lot of water and likely synthetic ingredients, coconut oil helps to strengthen skin tissue more deeply and eliminate dead skin cells while absorbing quickly into your skin.

Coconut oil also helps to delay the occurrence of wrinkles because it contains antioxidant Vitamin E, known to protect skin cells from damage over time. The Vitamin E found in coconut oil soothes eczema, sunburn and psoriasis, and its antiviral and antifungal benefits even help to treat bug bites.

Coconut oil contains 3 fatty acids: capric acid, lauric acid and caprylic acid. Each of these acids kill candida, a common cause of fungal infection on your skin.

Our skin is naturally made up of oils, making it immediately receptive to this light, non-greasy face oil, which acts like a serum, to hydrate for over 12 hours. With only a few drops that are quickly absorbed, this unique fusion of african ingredients invigorates, evens tone and reduces the appearance of lines and wrinkles for naturally healthy radiance and more youthful-looking skin.

Nyakio’s family secret: Nyakio’s namesake paternal grandmother shared her beauty philosophy of the energizing and invigorating benefits of caffeine.

 The use of oils in skincare has been part of Nyakio's family rituals for generations. Nyakio’s medicine man, maternal grandfather was a farmer who would gather plants, fruits and nuts from his farm and extract the oils to treat and condition the skin.