Coconut Oil as Hair Moisturizer

I have been swimming as therapy for my legs who sometimes suffer from circulation problems specially when I work in my office or stay indoors  a lot.  Even though my whole body enjoys this wonderful form of exercise my hair and my skin are not enjoying the chemicals from the pool. I have tried coconut oil on my skin but never on my hair. A friend of mine told me about it. I decided to put it on this morning and plan to rinse after 2 hours with just water. In 2006 I had gone trough a very bad batch of health. I had lost so much weight I was starting to look as if I was suffering from starvation. In a sense I was because my throat was so swollen I couldn't drink and eat. This led to some organs starting to fail and loosing feeling in my legs. It was strange but I was able to get good help with  a nutritionist. One thing that stuck in my mind form that time was the comment form her daughter an acupunture specialist. She said "if you can't eat it don't put it on your skin" I think that is so interesting. Today I just almost bathed with coconut oil. I have it on my hair and on my body for skin therapy and I even licked the spoon I used to scoop the oil  out of the jar! Try it!