What Does Coconut Oil Do for Acne?
When your skin pores get clogged with dead cells and your body loses its control over its sebum (your natural skin oil) production, acne bacteria get to feed on the over-production of sebum and then multiply to the point that triggers inflammation and causes pimples to pop up. That's what most acne sufferers know. But what they do not know about is that toxins in your body do also play a significant part in acne breakout. Let me explain. Toxins can weaken your liver function in deactivating androgens, which are the hormones that stimulate sebum production. So, when you have lots of toxins in your body, the result is an acne-prone (oily) skin and your chances of getting acne are extremely high. What coconut oil does for your acne is that it'll help your body to detox so as to lighten the detoxification load of your liver so that it will have enough power to regulate your sebum production through controlling the number of active androgenic hormones. Coconut oil can also...