Looking for a natural product great for your hair? Or have some spare coconut butter and wondering if you can use coconut butter for hair growth? Or shiny locks?
In this article, I walk you through what coconut butter is, the benefits of coconut butter on hair, and exactly how to use coconut butter for hair as well as the results you might get. Let’s start!
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What Is Coconut Butter?
Coconut butter is basically coconut meat pureed which includes the oil from the coconut. Like coconut oil, it is solid at room temperature and softens easily when heated.
Coconut oil is made by pressing the oil from the coconut meat and does not include the coconut meat like coconut butter. So coconut butter is coconut oil + coconut meat.
Coconut butter contains saturated fat (like coconut oil) as well as fiber. It also has iron, magnesium, potassium, and protein.
Coconut butter does feel and smell similar to coconut oil, although I think it seems more coconutty if that’s possible. I also think it tastes much better.
It has a higher melting point than coconut oil which means it can be tougher to melt and keep in liquid form to use.
Coconut Butter Benefits For Hair
Coconut butter is rich in essential proteins as described above. This help encourages healthy hair and scalp by nourishing the hair strands, conditioning, and repairing damaged hair. I’ve also read that one of the coconut butter uses for hair includes helping with dandruff but I have not tried this.
Exactly How To Use Coconut Butter In Hair
There are two different ways I like to use a coconut butter hair treatment. One is as a leave-in conditioner to help with styling and the other is as a coconut butter hair mask.
Coconut Butter Leave In Conditioner + Styling
I find coconut butter great as a leave-in conditioner particularly when I want to use heat in my hair like a hair dryer, curling iron, or flat iron.
I simply put a small teaspoon-sized amount through my hair before I dry it, running it through with my fingers. If I’m then going to use another heat instrument like my flat iron, I’ll put another teaspoon through before I use that.
You can rub it in your hands to liquefy it before applying or your hair dryer can help with this. The tricky part is making sure it’s all liquid and stays liquid while putting it in as it can solidify quickly and then it’s just annoying.
It helps keep my hair soft and smelling great.
Coconut Butter Hair Mask For Dry/Dull Hair
This hair mask should help encourage hair growth, strengthen hair, and help with shine. Everything that you should want from a great hair mask!
In saying that, I recently tried it with coconut oil instead of coconut butter when I ran out of the butter and I think it worked better with the oil, mainly because it is tougher to keep coconut butter in liquid form.
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons of Raw Coconut Butter
- 1 tablespoon of Honey
- 1 Egg
- Melt the coconut butter in the microwave or in a double boiler
- Whisk the egg in a bowl and then add the heated coconut butter
- Add the honey
- Whisk until well mixed
Once you have your hair mask, massage it into your hair from root to tip. It can be easier if you do it in sections. Try to cover your hair as evenly as possible.
Then put your hair in a shower cap or wrap it with cling wrap and leave for around 20 minutes.
Rinse well and then wash your hair as normal.
The only hard part about this mask is that the coconut butter can solidify quickly. Its melting point is around 93-100 degrees Fahrenheit. Make sure you melt all the coconut butter well, mix and apply quickly,
To this end, have everything set to go to apply the mask when you start making the mask. The last time I did this (to take these pics!), it took me five minutes to find the cling wrap. The mixture had clumps of solid coconut butter at this time.
Coconut Butter Hair Products
Coconut butter is not as popular in products as coconut oil and there isn’t a range of ready-to-buy coconut butter hair growth options. I recommend that if you want to try out using coconut butter in your hair you follow my recipes above.
You can also put coconut butter directly in your hair in a similar way to the mask above without adding the other ingredients.
Conclusion
Coconut butter isn’t as well known as coconut oil but it’s also a great option for your hair. Try it out and see for yourself!
Find all our coconutty guides here from using coconut oil for shaving here to creating a coconut milk face mask here. You can read our full guide to using coconut oil for hair here including another hair mask recipe. You can also read about using coconut butter on skin here.
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