What did you get up to at the weekend? We spent most of the time at home, as it was wet, windy and quite cold - brrrrr. This meant that we had plenty of time to get involved in the Coconut Oil challenge though, as the lovely people at Holland & Barrett had kindly sent us a jar of 100% natural raw virgin coconut oil to play with. As it says on the jar, it is great for cooking, baking or spreading - hmmmmm decisions decisions !
Well, if you scroll through my blog, you will find some lovely recipes using coconut oil. How about trying some Blueberry & Coconut Crumble Squares or maybe a Swedish-style Kladdkaka Cake (see below) ? Or you might like to go savoury and try the Hairy Bikers' Vietnamese Pork or Coconut Prawn Laksa instead?
This time, we decided to use it in some homemade beauty treatments though. It's been really windy here for about the last week, and as I have long hair, I've really felt it - here was my hair before jumping in the shower. I should point out that this was how it looked AFTER brushing it !
I warmed up a couple of spoonfuls of the coconut oil and added it to some avocado oil that I had in the cupboard, giving it a good stir. It looked a bit strange, so I wasn't too sure it would work, so I decided to pre-condition my hair, using my regular shampoo afterwards, just in case.
After leaving it on for 20 minutes, then washing it out really well, here was my hair post wash - I think you can see how much better it looked ! There was no styling involved - just a quick brush once it had dried naturally. I was amazed to see the difference, and it's definitely something I'll be doing again.
If you fancy giving it a go, you can buy this coconut oil in two different sizes. If you buy it at Holland & Barrett online, the small 453g jar retails at £14.99 (with a buy one get one half price offer available), but the bigger 920g jar currently has a special price of £9.49 (usually £19.99) so I know which one I'd go for !
I do have another option available though - you can currently win one on my blog ! Just fill in your entries via the Rafflecopter widget below. Good luck !
UK only. Closing date : 11/10/18
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it would be great to try on my hair as it is towards the bottom of my back and somewhat forgotten about since I've had my little one
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