Even before I started writing Desi Girl’s Beauty Blog, I’d tried a hoard of products. I was basically a marketer’s dream.

Growing up, while my friends would be rifling through clothes rails, I loved nothing more than pouring over the skincare aisles, reading the back of the lotions and potions to see what they promised and wanting to believe every word. I still have the same love for skincare, but I look at things in a more methodical fashion.

Looking at my own mum – she never used a wrinkle-cream, serum, toner or exfoliator in her life – yet she still has great, smooth, wrinkle-free skin. Her secret? She uses oil on her body a simple face lotion, like Nivea or Johnsons. The former is what I’m raving about. Oil is fantastic on the skin. And in my opinion, no oil works from better from head-to-toe than coconut oil.

I’ve raved about coconut oil before (see my blog post here).

It does such a fantastic job of nourishing the hair and scalp when simply massaged in overnight and washed the next day.

It makes you hair smooth and shiny, and has better long term benefits than any hair conditioner I’ve come across. The only downfall is that it’s not as quick and easy as a conditioner. It needs to seep into the scalp, and it takes a lot of shampoo to wash out. Therefore, you couldn’t do this every time you washed your hair. Plus, you simply cannot leave the house with coconut oil in your hair, it’s practically offensive. But that’s where a ‘shop-bought’ conditioner comes in to use the rest of the time. In addition to this, if you can tolerate having coconut oil in your hair for a couple of hours (or ideally overnight) at least once every two weeks, your hair will thank you for it. Coconut oil isn’t just great for the hair, it also works wonders for the skin. Out of necessity, I once used it as a body moisturiser after showering. I kid you not, mi skin had never been softer.