I'll do my usual recommendation - jojoba! It's a plant wax rather than an oil, doesn't go rancid, natural SPF 8, washes out of fabric easliy (if you get it on clothes or towels), also great for fur balls for cats   and jojoba doesn't clog drains  (coconut oil is famous for clogging up domestic bathroom drains in India)  jojoba is the BEST oil for putting essential oils in for them to be absorbed into the skin, and it is a fantastic eye makeup remover.  You can put jojoba on grubby skin, rub it with wet hands, it should emulsify a bit into a milky liquid, splash off, and then use more jojoba as the moisturiser.  You only need to add essential oils to the final moisturiser mix becaus ethey will be in contact with the skin long enough to do something, you can put it in the cleanser bit, but that will be mainly for fragrance rather than benefits for the skin becaus eyou rinse it off fairly quickly.
Jojoba meal is great for a gentle scrub for face or body too

Kiwi fruit and green papaya are the about the best enzyme exfoliators you can get - it's not the fruit acid in them so much, it's the enzymes eating off the dead skin cells and stopping when they get to not totally dead skin cells.  Fruit acids can eat away into the not totally dead skin cells if you leave them on for too long, so they can do a very mild burn.  Fruit enzymes tend to just leave you feeling a bit too tight if left on for too long, rather than burnt.

Ok, so I invested in some coconut oil and have used some kiwi fruit, and I did like their impacts- but what is a good natural exfoliant? I have a disgusting amount of bulging pores on my chin and on my nose.

An absolutely fantastic face and body exfolient is Fine Himalayan Salt mixed with jojoba oil. I keep a jar of this in the bathroom making a fresh batch each week.

When I do a full body scrub I use sunflower oil as ity is cheaper. Sometimes I add essential oils as well but these can sometimes agravate.
Make sure you stand in the shower or bath as it can get a little bit messy
afterwards washing off just pat skin dry leaving a little bit of dampness...you won't believe how silky smooth your skin will feel.

Also we try to go to the beach once a week so I lay in the shallow water and using handfuls of wetsand rub all over my body. Its so invigorating.

Thanks Emi- do you use when your skin is dry? Would this work with table salt Organic Mama?
And toranchanau- yes the coconut oil smells delicious & I want to eat it!!

I'm a little naive when it comes to beauty routines, but how would you use the kiwi fruit, green papaya or whatever else on your face?  Do you mush it up and then put it on your face like a mask; if so, how long are you supposed to leave it on for?  Or do you just keeping gently rubbing it on your face and then wash off?

And what is 'jojoba meal'?  Is that jojoba oil with some sort of nut meal added in?

Thanks

Rita xx