How Long Does It Take for Coconut Oil to Cure Acne?

Feb 24
11:48

2011

Laura Ng

Laura Ng

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In the process of treating your acne with coconut oil, you may experience what we call the "healing crisis". If it gets triggered, it'll take you longer to cure your acne. On the contrary, you could possibly cure your acne in just 2-5 days without going through the healing crisis. How can that be done? Read to find out now.

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First of all,How Long Does It Take for Coconut Oil to Cure Acne? Articles I want to clarify that coconut oil doesn't actually cure acne despite its effectiveness on acne treatment. To cure acne, you need to couple the use of coconut oil with a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.

Anyway, let's see how long it'll take you to cure acne with the help of coconut oil.

Some acne sufferers take only a few days to clear acne with coconut oil while some can take as long as 3-5 weeks. Why the difference?

Toxic load in your body can weaken your liver's ability to deactivate androgens, the hormones that stimulate the secretion of sebum. That's one of the reasons why your skin becomes so oily.

Though oily skin may not necessarily cause acne, it does make you more acne-prone since acne bacteria feed on sebum (and blood toxins mingled within the sebum) and more shedding of dead skin cells are triggered by more sebum secretion. For these reasons, your pores can get clogged easily and causing acne bacteria to multiply like crazy. The end result – pimples and whiteheads break out.

That's not all. You can get even more acne breakout when coconut oil penetrates deep into your skin and draw those under-the-skin toxins up to the surface of your skin. But that's just a healing crisis. Once your toxins are cleared, your pimples and whiteheads will diminish and skin starts to heal.

What I'm trying to put across is that when you have so much toxins amassed beneath your skin, it will take some time for coconut oil to clear up those toxins before it can help you clear your acne and give you a flawlessly acne-free skin and complexion.

Detox is vital to acne healing because if you can remove toxins effectively, you'll be able to relieve the detoxification load of your liver, and your liver will be able to properly regulate the secretion of your sebum, thereby making your skin less oily and acne-prone.

On the other hand, if you've always been careful with your diet and you take very much less toxin- and hormone-loaded foods like dairy, egg, meat, fish, fried food, and other highly processed foods, it will take shorter time, probably 2-5 days, for coconut oil to help clear your acne without even breaking out.

But there's a chance of acne resurgence when you continue to bring in toxins, causing hormonal imbalance from time to time. That's the reason why in the beginning I told you that coconut oil does not actually cure acne.

In other words, if you don't root out the cause (your poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle), acne will return with a vengeance for sure even though coconut oil does help in curing acne.