What Do You Do with Coconut Oil?

I am a pinterest addict, and this question reminded me of this pin I saw on there. 52 uses for coconut oil!

Here is a link to the blog with the list of uses for it! Hope it gives you some good ideas!

http://www.deliciousobsessions.com/2012/01/52-uses-for-co...

Use it in place of butter or oil for frying, baking, etc.. A good quality oil will have only the faintest of coconut flavor and you won't really taste it in the food. No need to refrigerate it, but store it somewhere cool and dark (like a cabinet with a solid door) so that it stays fresher longer. Over a certain temp it will be liquid, under that temp it will be solid. Doesn't matter, it will just melt when you cook with it.

We also add it to smoothies.

I don't refrigerate mine.

You can make toothpaste with it!
3 tbsp coconut oil
3 tbsp baking soda
1-2 packets of stevia or xylitol (optional)
about 25 drops peppermint oil (optional)

I just mix mine up and keep it in a container. It's one of the best toothpastes! The xylitol or stevia makes it taste a bit better and the peppermint oil makes it minty.

I use it for cooking, about 1 tbsp for frying.

You can also use it to take sticky residue off.

This is a weird use, but I rub it on the bottom of my cat's litter box before I put the litter in. It makes it much easier to scoop.

Enjoy your jar! I use mine as a moisturizer as well as many other things.

I just used mine for making popcorn. Then I get a good flavor without adding extra butter. When a chunk fell off my spoon I rubbed it on my hands as moisturizer. I did almost grabed a towel, but then remembered I use it for my skin care needs too LOL. I use mini containers to separate it amongst the different rooms of my house. Bedrooms for dry lips and skin, bathroom for eyemake up remover etc and kitchen for food. I mostly cook with grapeseed oil but use the coconut for popcorn a lot.

I have never used it in my hair but that's a great idea that I can't wait to try :)

I recently bought some for the first time. I made scones with it.

My daughter and I use it for deep conditioning of our hair. LOVE it.

What can't you do with coconut oil??? I lurve the stuff!

Homemade Magic Shell for Ice Cream
take 1 1/4 cup of chocolate chips and 1/2 cup (measured solid) coconut oil
Melt in microwave for 1 minute and stir - it will be runny
pour into bottle (glass is best if you're going to reheat in microwave)
serve over ice cream -- solidifies into hard shell.

I also use it for moisturizer on my face, hair, hands, feet. And I stir a teaspoon into my coffee in the morning. It's good for you.

Whatever quality you get, unless it's fractionated coconut oil, is in a consistency of shortening, and if you live in a higher temp locale, you want it in a cool dark place because it WILL liquify. Fractionated coconut oil has all the beneficial parts of the oil separated, and is in a liquid state, and is used in perfuming, as well as your normal cooking purposes.

I've gotten high quality organic coconut oil at the health food store, and standard coconut oil at the bulk place, and very little difference in aroma, storage and usage. I will say that I have been making my body butters and soaps for over 20 years, so I think it's safe to say I know a bit about product.

I use it in place of corn and peanut oil in a lot of recipes due to friends having corn and peanut allergies.

I also use it in a body butter.

2 oz beeswax
2 oz coconut oil
2 oz almond oil
2 oz olive oil
2 oz shea butter

Melt all in double boiler, pour into heat safe containers(I recycle old altoids tins), then add essential oils, and let cool completely...If it's too soft, scrape back into double boiler and add more beeswax.
All of these oils have healing properties, and the beeswax helps seal in moisture. If you want to make a lip balm, add food grade flavours like peppermint, otherwise use essential oils. My favourite are lavender and peppermint(20 drops lavender and 8 drops peppermint).

The balm is good for dry skin, and also for our tired feet, and works great on softening calluses. Perfumed, you can also use a small bit to add shine and scent to your hair. Just rub a small amount into your hands to melt it, then rub it into your hair. Some people use just the coconut oil and beeswax for the above balm recipe, but I like the different properties of the oils I use in my blend. Using just coconut oil will have a lower melt point as well, and is good for perfumed massage cremes.

You can also make a castile soap out of it, which I will not list a recipe here because unless you've made soap before, can get messy(working with lye, and you cannot have saponification without lye, unless you are just rebatching).

Hope this helps.

We spread it on bread instead of butter, put it on hot vegetables and saute with it. It's one of those healthy fats. We don't refrigerate ours. The jar will say if it should be refrigerated.

I use it for everything you do but I also use it for cooking. I replace all oil and butter in recipes with coconut oil. I don't know what kind they sell at Costco, but the brand I get is Nutivia. It's unrefined so it actually smells like coconut and has a slight coconut taste. I like that. If I'm cooking a savory dish, the flavors of the dish usually over power the coconut oil or even compliment the coconut oil taste.

Coconut oil is so good for you. It actually promotes weight loss (I know that's hard to believe, but models actually take a teaspoon of it a couple times a day.)

If you're planning cooking with the coconut oil, can I recommend that you get the Organic, Cold Pressed, Un-refined coconut oil.

I have seen Daphney Oz do many things with it on The Chew. Check out her recipes on their website. She uses it in deserts and masks.

Love it! Great deep conditioning treatment (helps hair grow long, strong, shiny and repairs it if its damaged). That's my favorite use of it.

I rub it all over my body and then spend a few minutes pretending I'm on a beach somewhere.

Haven't used it for anything else, yet. I'll be checking back here for more tips.

It is a tasty oil for the pan of pancakes. It tends to smoke at high temps but raw oil is not molecularly changed by it.

The poster below is wrong- A good quality coconut oil would be raw virgin coconut oil- and that is fullest of coconut flavor anf high in good Omegas. Once the oil is high temp heated or hydrogenated it ruins it, it becomes a cheap oil with bad omegas which is not any better for you that any other hydrogenated oil, and it takes out most of the flavor leaving just a hint of essence.

RAW VIRGIN coconut oil has a very long shelf life at room temp. It will increase metabolism, helping you lose weight (hydrogenated oils add weight.)

My friend pops popcorn with it . I guess its delicious !

It is awesome to sauté cauliflower, pork (with pineapple- YUM!) line your baking pans with it, coat your veggies in it and roast them.

Light is the enemy, and it has a low melting point, so if you put it in the fridge, put it in the darkest place. I just keep mine in the kitchen cabinet.

pop corn!!! this is what the theaters use for the oil part of the popcorn making. also deep fried donuts sound wonderful..idk if the coconut oil can handle the hot temp of deep frying something.

I do not refrigerate mine. I use it for the things you mentioned and also have heard that it is better to cook with than olive oil. I put spoons of it on anything that I would normally use butter. LIke in oatmeal etc.