True or False: Coconut Oil Can Help You Grow Out Your Hair
When you’re ready to grow your hair out, you want it to be longer, like yesterday. So when you hear influences freaking out about how coconut oil can help hair grow faster, it seems worth a try. After all, coconut oil can basically do...anything? PSA: Coconut oil does squat for hair growth. Sorry to break it to you, but there is no evidence showing that coconut oil will actually help your hair to grow longer even for one who possessed very thin strand of hair, says Gary Goldenberg, M.D., assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. Yes, coconut oil has moisturizing and antimicrobial (bacteria and fungus-fighting) properties that make it beneficial for skin and hair, says Joshua Zeichner, M.D., a New York City–based board-certified dermatologist and director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. But neither of those properties directly translate into faster hair...
