Keep the Spirit of Summer Alive with Coconut Oil

Elegant Savage loves using this potent, yet modest ingredient in many of our products. Virgin coconut oil (VCO) contains naturally occurring enzymes, phytonutrients, vitamin E and tocotrienols, all of which remain undamaged and biologically active for the benefit of your skin. VCO does not require refining, bleaching or deodorising but instead it remains naturally fresh with a mild coconut flavour and pleasant aroma.

The wide range of therapeutic benefits that coconut oil confers is due in large part to the symbiotic relationship it has with the friendly bacteria that live upon our skin. These bacteria (lipophilic bacteria) digest the glycerine component of the Medium Chain Triglycerides present in VCO releasing the three Medium Chain Fatty Acids - Caprylic, Capric and Lauric. These 3 fatty acids are naturally acidic (pH5) and help to protect the skin's' acid mantle, they have powerful anti-fungal, antimicrobial and antiviral properties. Your body also produces MCFAs in the sebum, excreted onto the skin for the same protective purposes. Because the MCFA found in coconut oil are relatively small (unlike the long chain hydrocarbons found in other plant and mineral oils) coconut oil is absorbed easily into the skin and hair shaft providing important nutrition.

Historically Virgin Coconut Oil has been used to treat a wide range of conditions including acne, athlete's foot, burns and sunburn, cradle cap, dry skin and eczema, dandruff, ringworm and speeding wound healing to name but a few! And for the reasons cited above using raw virgin coconut oil will confer greater benefit than its ‘cooked' non-virgin counterpart.

"My Call For Humanity"

Spoken word, well said.

Pisces Supermoon "Land and Sea"

So this is what I gathered from all of the wonderful resources I studied about this last full moon of our sweet Summer. It's just a Supermoon in Pisces NO BIGGIE! Hah! Just kidding. Once I began to get intune with natural cycles, for one by following the stars and tracking transits of the planets I became aware I was also one with these cycles because I started to feel them in my body. Moon in Pisces is a great one to work with, even if you don't think you are sensitive enough because this transit will make you FEEL EVERYTHING. Full Moon in Pisces is like that times ten so a Super full Moon..who knows? I plan on soaking it up tonight. Pisces being a water sign really connects me w/ feelings of great depth and vastness similar to the unfathomable size of oceans. Limitless possibilities, or an infinite expansion of love that can be felt as the heart expands in the chest. It can make you feel like you are floating weightless or sinking down to a bottomless dark place. All in search of a common theme...HEALING.