skin and hair care without harmful chemicals

well, it is a new day and today i wanted to talk about virgin coconut oil and what it has done for me. (thanks, nim).
i want to say that i have and do use it on my hair. when i was first going shampoo free i would put it on my scalp and hair and sleep and then wash it out with conditioner. also, i would treat my hair with VCO before using shikakai paste. when i started using only amla it did not remove the oil as well, so i had to content myself with using a tiny bit. now i just use it when my hair is dry and only a tiny bit on the ends as it is pretty hard to wash out without shikakai or conditioner.

virgin coconut oil is an excellent skin moisturizer. i use it to clean my face. either i take some and smear it on and massage it in my neck and face and then take a warm/hot washcloth and lay it on my face to steam and then wipe it off - this is called the OCM (oil cleansing method) - or i mix it with brown sugar and rub it on my face and neck and then steam with the wash cloth and wipe it off. both ways work great.

before i started using this method i tried many things. for years i used only weleda products which are expensive and supposedly all natural - but then started having problems finding them and got tired of their strong smells.

i started using aveeno when i lived in LA with my mother - mostly because i was lazy and could not get to a health food store for weleda and also because i didn't have as much money and these products are readily available and cheap. when i got back to austin and back into my old caring about myself state of mind - i just had to find something not so poisonous and so then bought practically the entire Burt's Bees line.

for about a year i used burt's bees - until they were bought by clorox last year and i found that i just could not use them anymore knowing they were owned by clorox. so i started looking around for replacements for all my skin care needs.

next time - my on-going quest for all natural, simple, and cheap skin and hair care that Works!!!