What Can You Tell Me About Coconut Oil?

I got familiar with it when my youngest would get yeast infections while still in a diaper. I got it at the market expecting it to smell like coconut. It doesn't unless you get the organic stuff. I got a big jar of it and use it for lots of things, cooking, makeup remover, diaper rash, dry skin (in the winter I put some in the bath with the kids and it keeps their skin hydrated). Here is a link to help you out: http://wellnessmama.com/5734/101-uses-for-coconut-oil/.

It's my default cooking oil. I use Spectrum Organics, available at any grocery store. The flavor is totally neutral. It's great for high heat cooking like sauteing as it's more stable than olive oil and it's good for baking too.

I love coconut oil. I use it in cooking, as a moisturizer, as a sexual lubricant, and even as deodorant (mixed with a small amount of baking soda, corn starch and tea tree oil). Mix in bees wax and zinc oxide and you have a decent sun screen.

It's solid at room temperature but it melts at skin temperature - so it's great to smooth on your skin right after you shower.

I have been buying the organic unrefined coconut oil for over a year now. I use it to make a moisturizer and a deodorant. I have heard that it helps with yeast overgrowth. I have suffered with yeast infections for years. Finally tried a teaspoon of coconut oil a few times a day and it worked! I couldn't believe it.

You can also cook with it, make soap with it.

It makes a mean batch of popcorn done on the stove. You don't even need to add butter.

I use it like the rest of the posters.

I have no idea about the health benefits, but I LOVE using it on my hair :)

My daughter and I use it a lot. We don't cook with it.

We buy the coconut oil that is on the baking aisle with other oils, etc. It is a solid form and when you touch your skin with it, it melts.

It is great for just out of the shower moisturizer and we also will use it on our hair about once a week or so. Just sleep with a little in our hair (does not take much) and then shampoo and condition in the am. Nice solft healthy hair.

I don't know about using it medically we just like it for moisturizing and our skin just soaks it right up with no oily residue.

In the past year I started using coconut oil on a regular basis. I use it as a moisturizer, for baking, for sautéing, for a toothpaste mixture, for pulling (you'll have to look up oil pulling) and for my hair. There are numerous benefits as you've already stated, but the number one benefit of using the coconut oil is that I did increase my HDL (good cholesterol) and decreased my bad by about 10 each. They were already at good levels but it's never a bad thing to increase the good and decrease the bad. I say, definitely get the first cold pressed non refined organic coconut oil. I know it's a bit more expensive but it isn't GMO (bad) and it's in it's most natural form.

Cocnut oil is basically flavourless and better for cooking at high temperatures. The molecure structure of the oil will change at high temperatures and coconut oil withstands heat better than oilve oil. Olive oil is best for non cooked salads & such. anyone who eats the Paleo way knows about this oil...
Here link with some good info:
http://www.kelapo.com/coconut-oil-benefits/

Homemade Magic Shell

1 cup milk or dark chocolate chips
2 tablespoons coconut oil

Add chocolate chips and coconut oil to a microwave-safe bowl. Stir together and then microwave in 30-second increments until the chocolate chips have completely softened. Remove from microwave and stir together until smooth.
Spoon or pour over ice cream or frozen yogurt.

It is more solid than liquid, but it is very soft and liquefies easily. I use it in my son's hair (natural moisturizer) and on his skin (eczema). I have cooked with it, and I like that it doesn't too much influence the flavor, unlike olive oil or even vegetable oil. I have no complaints.

We use it for hair, skin, and cooking. Both Chickpea and I have digestive tract issues. For cosmetic purposes, we typically use a coconut and shea blend, but I buy the 100% pure and solid oil for cooking. I can often find the food grade oil at Marshall's for half of what the grocery store charges. If it is a little off, then we mix that with what we already have for hair & skin.

My husband uses it in his smoothies. I know someone who brushes their teeth with it. To do that you are only supposed to use about a teaspoon.

i love it. i keep a big jar of it in my bathroom as skin moisturizer and love lotion, and i also have it in my kitchen cupboards for cooking.
it's not magic, but it's natural, healthy, delicious and useful. what's not to love?
khairete
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I have been using it as sunscreen and it is working. However, I have been in the sun a lot this summer and already have more sun than I would like.

There are natural things you can do much more efficiently to work on cholesterol and triglycerides. There is phenomenal research going on right now. If you've already tried things that haven't worked, let me know what you've already done. I've been going to seminars and have learned a lot from key researchers.

In general, a single nutrient is NOT going to be a magic bullet to solve all kinds of things - certainly not something you buy in a grocery store and which is processed in some way, especially chemically. Any liquid you buy is going to have something done to it to give it greater shelf life. Most supplement experts will tell you that every nutrient requires its natural partners in order to work effectively and comprehensively. In fact, if you use a single nutrient, unless there are clinical studies, you can make things worse by using too much. The hospitals are filled with people who tried something "all natural" because they thought it was safe - weight loss, metabolism boosting, sleep aids, etc. You really have to get into food science with safe nutrients from high quality sources - nothing you buy in a grocery or "health food" store is likely to have that. Look on the labels of most supplements and vitamins and you'll see warning labels - there are others that are not required to carry this, but you have to know where and how they are manufactured. A lot of that can irritate digestive problems too, which your husband has.

Acne is largely dealt with from the inside - the skin is your largest organ. Nourishing the skin and restoring balance are key, and sometimes some detoxing is important. Also good hydration that actually penetrates the cells - not just water that is good but mostly gets eliminated in urine. So cellular nutrition is easily doable but you have to find the right mechanism and science. But DO NOT go through a cleanse - very very hard on the body, and it's only temporary. Then you start all over again. We've done all of that (I also have underactive thyroid), our cholesterol and triglycerides are now phenomenal, my son no longer has any acne going on, and my skin looks like that of a woman 20 years younger.

Don't just believe claims you hear - what are the clinical studies involved, where is the product manufactured, how well regarded is the company's Chief Scientific Officer (ratings, published papers, etc.), do they have the FDA Safe Manufacturing Practices designation, and so on - these are some questions to ask.

If you go to Drmercola.Com (a free website) he has lots of articles in coconut oil and its benefits..

good luck

Oh gosh, my friends for over a decade get sooooo sick of me bringing up CO, hahaha :). We get a large tub from Costco, split it into various air-tight containers thru the house and use it for so many things.

For my son, it cleared up his cradle cap in a couple days, his baby eczema in a few days and is for cuts/scrapes/winter dry skin. He had a 24-tummy flu a couple years ago, where he was pooping stomach acid, and that acid caused a wicked burn on his bum and legs. CO was the only thing that cleared it up. He also eats it daily

It was his only sunscreen his first year - but since it's only about a 4-8SPF, I upgraded to stronger stuff the following years because of activity, times outside, length of times outside, swimming, etc.

For us: cooking, smoothies, skin ailments (including acne), oil pulling, toothpaste, hair conditioner (I switch between CO and Jojoba). My boobs grew 7 sizes when pregnant with my son and never went down, so I sometimes have issues with rashes/burns/yeast infections and CO clears it all up.

There are lists going around for 101 uses, or over 300 uses, and we've done them all over the past 12 years :) If you're ever not seeing results when using CO, I recommend using it a ton at first and tapering off. My sister couldn't get rid of the eczema on her hands, she started using CO 12x/day, and she's down to once every few days with the eczema not recurring.

We take quality probiotics daily (or up to 3x/day if ever sick), which helps us with digestive issues. It helped repair the damage done to my insides after learning I had Celiac. It helped my son's stomach ulcers repair much sooner than expected. I don't know if CO played a part in any of that.

My personal battle with triglycerides did not improve until I cut way back on sugars/starches/simple carbs. When I ate low-fat, my triglycerides were in the 300 range. When I eat low-carb, my triglycerides are under 100. It's hard to say if CO will help with that for you or not, without knowing why they are high in the first place.
Good luck!

Just be careful about using it around people or in cooking for people who have tree nut allergies. Coconuts are considered a tree nut and can they can cause severe reactions if someone has a tree nut allergy. A friend of mine has a daughter with tree nut allergies and she had a pretty severe reaction after eating cookies made with coconut oil. If someone has a severe enough allergy just coming in contact to the oil on your skin could cause a reaction.