If you've been using harsh chemicals on your hair and scalp and find your hair thinning or falling out or you're plagued by dandruff, you may be looking for a better way to go. Many people are discovering the benefits of coconut oil. It's natural, healthy and inexpensive too. And I'll explain in this article how to use coconut oil on your hair.

If you're looking for healthy ways to get soft, silky hair and inexpensively too, then you may want to think about using coconut oil on your hair. If you've ever seen pictures of the women from the Polynesian Islands, they have long silky hair. They eat a lot of coconuts too but also apply coconut oil to their hair.

Once you start using coconut oil or coconut butter as some people call it, you'll no doubt want to get rid of all the expensive conditioners and creams and mousses you're using for your hair. Coconut oil will give your hair a lot of body, protect it and lessen breakage of your hair, so you should have less thinning. Of course, many hair stylists who know about it want to keep this secret for themselves. But the word is slowly getting out.

You'll stop buying expensive creams and conditioners and going for salon hair treatments once you realize you can get a gallon for the cost of one small jar of salon hair conditioner.

To use coconut oil as a hair conditioner, you can warm it a little and massage it into your hair at bedtime. You can hold some in your hands for a few moments if you don't have time to heat it. It should melt fast. Use about two teaspoons or so. You won't need a lot. The first time you do it, just use a little to experiment and do it on a night when you'll be home in the morning. Colored or bleached hair may be more porous so keep this in mind.

In the morning wash it out. I like to use organic virgin coconut oil which is the best quality. When you buy coconut oil online or in a whole foods store, make sure it hasn't been refined, bleached and deodorized. You want the unrefined kind. One way to tell is it smells like coconut.

For a salon-type treatment you can apply coconut oil, put on a shower cap, and then wash it out after an hour so. If you have a dandruff problem apply one to two teaspoons to your scalp and gently massage it in. Your shampoo may be causing your dandruff so you may want to find a shampoo with fewer chemicals.

You can also use coconut oil for a shampoo but only use a little bit and mix with your regular shampoo in the palm of your hand. You can also put a tiny bit on your hair using your fingertips after you style it.

This should give you a good idea how to use coconut oil on your hair as a hair conditioner or a shampoo. You'll save a lot of money and have the healthiest, silkiest shiniest hair you can imagine. It will look thicker too because you will be losing less hair. Of course there are other ways you can use it too, and this is just one way.