Not too much coconut oil for hair

by Kay
(BC, Canada)

I love coconut oil as a substitute for butter and for frying foods, as a wonderful skin cream and, of course, for my hair. When a friend complained that her hair was dry and needed an oil treatment I was quick to recommend coconut oil but warned "not too much." I offered to give her a couple of tablespoons and warned her again not to use all of it. She said, "I'll buy my own" and she did.

I didn't see her for two weeks after this and when I did her hair looked alarmingly oily. "You used too much," I accused her. She said, "I thought 'if a little is good, lots is better', so I used nearly a cup of coconut oil, then I wrapped my head in a towel and slept overnight before trying to wash it out. What you see today is nothing -- I've been shampooing at least twice a day for almost two weeks!"

My friend has very fine hair but lots of it. She now knows that coconut oil (extra virgin, in her case) is great stuff but "too much" is anything more than "very little".