Coconut oil is known best to the world for its remarkable benefits in health and beauty. Coconut is considered as a super-food as it contains healthy fatty acids and it also have antimicrobial properties.
Coconut oil has many health benefits like burning fat, improving brain function, beautifies hair and skin, improving immunity, help in curing epilepsy and lowering blood pressure. Properly used coconut oil with exercise proves beneficial in lowering high blood pressure.
Studies have stated that daily intake of coconut oil and doing exercise regularly helps in reducing high blood pressure.
Varieties of Coconut Oil:
Pure coconut oil is extracted from dry coconut. It is without any additives. Pure coconut oil is used as cosmetic products, medicines, edible oil, massaging oil and hair oil.
Virgin coconut oil is made from milk that is obtained from fresh coconut by fermentation, centrifugal separation and enzyme action. Virgin coconut oil is loaded with antioxidants and medium chain fatty acids. It contains excellent antimicrobial properties.
Refined coconut oil is also known as RBD coconut oil, i.e. refined, bleached and deodorized coconut oil. RBD coconut oil is thin, colorless and odorless with pure saturated fats.
Organic coconut oil, as the name indicates this oil is made from coconuts palms that are raised on organic manure only. There is no chemical used in the extraction of organic coconut oil.
Organic virgin coconut oil is the rarest and purest form of coconut oil.