Coconut oil for topical use

I love the stuff. Eat it (lauric acid I think?), cook with it, use it as a hair conditioner, used it during radiation and use it daily as a moisturizer. It removes mascara too!



The first time I ever came across it was several years ago. I was in a sauna with an elderly woman from the Caribbean. She slathered all over her body, and hair the whole time in the Sauna. She told me she grew up doing that...so I guess I am a little late to that party!

I think this stuff is magic.  I absolutely hate how I get it everywhere and all over the tub, though.  Would love to mix it with something to make it stable, it's liquid in the summer, a block in the winter.  The hassle is worth it, but I would love to figure something out to make it easier.

LtoK...I put the container of oil in a sink of hot water while I am in the shower.  It is liquid by the time I get out.

 Shayne...do you mean that you brush your teeth with it? 

Coconut oil is really, really great. Helped so much during rads, still massaging my breast and other scars with it. Makeup remover, hair conditioner, cooking oil, for skin...you name it! 

Shayne, do you mean a tablespoon? So interesting that it removes toxins by swishing it around in the mouth. That's one use I hadn't heard of yet :-) Googled it at once, I had seriously no idea it existed! http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/what-is-oil-pulling.html

My best to all from rainy Paris. 

PS.   Love Paris in the rain......really, any time.  One of my fav cities in the world!

Hihi, Paris is really great. I live here since 2001 and love this city more and more.

Thank you for the info, I think I had tried most of the ayurvedic treatments (drinking castoroil mixed with water is pure bliss..hummhumm ;-) ) and I'll certainly try this one for sure!

I love coconut oil. I use it on my skin daily, and I usually end up getting it in my hair somehow, so I guess technically I use it as a conditioner as well. I really have to work hard to NOT get it into my hair when I am getting ready to go somewhere, but I always use coconut oil as my moisturizer. I also use Apricot Kernel Oil, which apparently has a lot of B17 in it. It seems to make my complexion more "even toned."

I tried the oil pulling, but it made my teeth sore! I suppose I am supposed to work through that, but they were so sensitive afterwards that I couldn't do it again. 

purple

good health food store, Whole Foods has their own brand, 365, in a black plastic tub in the vitamin section. They're on Route 9 in Hadley ( Barnes & Noble there too)  If you ever get to Northampton River Valley Co-op, on Route 5 just up from the Big Y mall,  River Valley have a good selection.  Also Cornucopia in Thornes Market.

Important to get a GOOD one, organic if possible, to use it in cooking too.

Im using it now on my surgical scar.  I also have some liposomal oil that im using as well from naturopath

I got my Organic Coconut Oil at Trader Joes - great price!

I love Aunt Patty's Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil - Raw - Cold Pressed. There is a lot of great research on the benefits of coconut oil. It is great on wrinkles...bug bites...plus people with AIDS are finding remarkable results using coconut oil. It is also a wonderful remedy for painful/burning sex caused from medications - such as Tamoxifen. We use it as a lube...my obgyn highly recommends using coconut oil as a lube.

geewhiz, I would ex-nay on the Emu oil thing.  I know a little bit about how it is sourced.  It is biochemically similar to chicken or goose fat.  Being an animal fat, they use solvents to "retrieve" it from the flesh of the bird.  It will have traces of solvents and stabilizers in it.