4 Amazing Oils For Healthy Skin and Hair

Raw Shea Butter

Not technically an oil, shea butter can be melted down into an oil if desired, but its thick, buttery properties are the reasons a lot of people love it. It's a wonderful sealant and mixes well with other oils on this list, making it easier to apply.

Shea butter is a great moisturizer for skin and hair. Unrefined or raw shea butter is ready to use directly on skin or hair without any need for further processing. Furthermore, you can mix it with different natural ingredients to make a whipped shea butter or other great recipes.

For Hair: Raw shea butter provides moisture to dry and damanged hair and skin, it repairs natural hair breakage and itchy skin. Raw shea butter is able to smooth and soften afro hair strands, it does not cause buildup, it helps you if you have scalp issues: e.g. drandruff, eczema or dermatitis. It acts like a shield to protect your hair and skin against sunlight. This butter can also protect your hair getting heat damage


For Skin: Vitamin A in Shea Butter is important for improving a number of skins conditions, including blemishes wrinkles, eczema, and dermatitis. Additionally, Premium Shea Butter cream has properties to treat skin allergies, insect bites, sunburns, frostbites, and a number of other conditions of the skin. It also has anti-aging properties. Unrefined shea butter can be used as a baby care product.

Castor Oil

One of the most inexpensive oils, this one has moved from the pharmacy shelf to many homes. While plain castor oil has long been used as a laxative, it's become more common in hair care, too. This one is incredibly thick, so use sparingly.

For Hair: Castor Oil helps with hair regrowth, makes the hair richer and darker, prevents split ends, treats dandruff and dry scalp, moisturizes the hair and makes it shine, and works in an antifungal and antibacterial way.

For Skin: Castor Oil is anti-fungal  and anti-microbial, It can be used for face-cleansing, to eliminate stretchmarks, to fade scars, to treat acne, to treat sunburn, eliminate itching, to delay the appearance of wrinkles and facial lines. It can also be used as a massage oil and moisturizer.

Coconut Oil

One of the most well-known oils that benefit many types of hair, coconut is a favorite because it actually moisturizes tresses. Coconut oil is one of the most powerful oils in the world. Not only does coconut have that great “vacation-in-the-Caribbean” smell, it’s also great for your hair.

For Hair: Coconut oil is high in vitamin E and other nutrients, and your hair can absorb them all. The result will be hair that is thicker, shiner, healthier and has stronger roots. It also contains lauric and capric acid, which have amazing antimicrobial powers – meaning it will make your hair and scalp healthier and prevent dandruff, itchy scalp and infections.

Coconut oil stimulates hair growth getting deep into its follicles. Coconut oil promotes the scalp health fighting against such problems as insect bites, lice and dandruff. Coconut oil adds luster, shine and softness to the hair. Coconut oil prevents hair breakage and split ends, contributing to hair length.

For Skin: Coconut Oil as a skin moisturizer can be used as a body-massage oil, as a lip gel, as a cheekbone lighter, to shave legs and underarms, to remove eye makeup and so many more. It sure has more than enough reasons to be a favourite.

Olive Oil

Olive oil isn't just for cooking
anymore. This fave may have moved into your bathroom a while ago, while also being useful in the kitchen. Very easy to find, look for extra virgin olive oil, popularly known as EVOO in hair circles, whenever possible. This variety has little processing or refinement done to it, so it retains many of its nutrients. Olive oil contains three major antioxidants: vitamin E, polyphenols, and phytosterols. Antioxidants, when topically applied, may help protect the skin from premature skin aging. Vitamin E partly accounts for the anti-aging benefits of olive oil because it helps restore skin smoothness and protects against ultraviolet light.

For Hair: The same oil that you likely use for cooking and salad dressing can be used as a deep moisturizing treatment and to promote hair growth. Massaging your scalp with olive oil will promote scalp health and improve circulation, while fighting off bacteria and leaving you with softer smoother hair.

For Skin: Olive oil is also used for nail and cuticle care, and many women use it as an eye makeup remover. Further applications include using it as an ingredient in homemade facial masks. One other interesting application for both men and women is the substitution of olive oil for shaving cream. Many men have abandoned shaving cream once they discovered how close a shave they can get with olive oil. Men and women alike have also found its refreshing qualities make it an excellent aftershave.