Five quick and easy beauty treatments with coconut oil

Coconut oil has many health benefits when used in cooking but is also a fabulous beauty product. Here are our 5 favourite quick and easy other ways to use it.

1. Make up remover, soften between your fingers and massage into your face. Remove with a damp cotton wool pad, it will remove the most stubborn waterproof mascara.

   

2. Lip scrub, mix the cocunut to a paste, add brown sugar. Massage over lips, remove as you wish, we reccommend eating it!

   

3. Citrus Foot Soak, add 1tsp of coconut oil, 125g of Epsom Salts, 4 drops of lemon essential oil and 2-3 slices of lemon to a bowl of warm water. Once the coconut oil has melted soak your feet for 5 to 10 minutes.

   

4. Post workout body oil. Melt 20g of coconut oil in a glass bowl over a pan of boiling water, mix with 5-10 drops of eucalyptus oil and massage into skin.

   

5. Detox Bath, add 1tsp of melted coconut oil, 250g of epsom salts, 5 drops of lemon essential oil and 5 drops of eucalyptus oil to a warm bath, lie back and enjoy.

All recipes courtesy of Natural Beauty with Coconut Oil by Lucy Bee