Coconut oil for weight loss? A common misconception about coconut oil is its association with weight gain. For decades, people who were struggling with weight loss would avoid coconut oil. They would read food labels and anything that contained coconut oil was immediately put back on the shelf. This was during that fairly lengthy time period in … [Read more...]
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5 Ways To Use Peppermint Coconut Oil
The holidays might be over but that doesn’t mean that I have abandoned the magic of peppermint. Mix it with some coconut oil and you have a year round treat! Mmmmm…peppermint coconut oil. Doesn’t that just delight the senses? You all know I love me some coconut oil in a tube right? Oh wait…some of you might be new to my little corner of the … [Read more...]
Coconut Oil – The Ultimate Immune Booster
That time of year crept up on us again. You know what I am talking about. The time when “achoo,” “hack, hack, hack,” and “sniffle, snarf, snort” become background noise in our daily lives. With cooler weather comes the onslaught of germs. Cold, flues, and other viruses are out in full force. No matter how many times you wash your hands, it seems … [Read more...]
How To Prevent or Stop Hair Loss (Baldness) With Coconut Oil
Hair loss happens. It is certainly normal to loose strands of hair every day, sometimes hundreds. These strands regrow as part of the normal growth and loss cycle. Typically, this is not a cause for concern, until it is. If you have ever been the victim of clumps of hair coming out throughout the day, you know how scary an experience this is. What … [Read more...]
Health Benefits of Coconut During Pregnancy
In tropical countries all over the world, coconuts have long been praised as having fertility and pregnancy enhancing properties. In India, for example, a woman hoping to conceive will go to her priest for a special coconut. Thai babies receive, as their first solid food, three spoonfuls of soft coconut meat from their priests. A Balinese woman is … [Read more...]
Easy Sunscreen Recipe Using Coconut Oil, Carrot Seed Oil, and Raspberry Seed Oil
I have a few posts up on my site that generate a lot of email questions. It seems like everyone wants to get their hands on my secret recipe for sun protection! I guess my "I use this and this and this" isn't quite cutting it. You kind readers want and deserve specifics! Therefore, I am giving them to you TODAY! Before I get to my secret … [Read more...]
Coconut Oil Breath Mints
All I want for summer is halitosis….said no one ever. Who in their right mind wants bad breath? Sadly, bad breath happens. While it can occur for a variety of reasons (some health related and some food/beverage consumption related), the fact of the matter is most of us will experience bad breath or an unpleasant taste in our mouth at one time or … [Read more...]
Natural Oils as Sun Protection
The sun is out full time these days, at least here in the desert! Most of us, especially those of us with children, are spending more and more time outside, soaking up the Vitamin D and filling our cups with warmth and solar energy. Certain natural oils offer SPF protection from the sun that is better than protection found in any commercially … [Read more...]
Coconut Oil Furniture Polish Recipe
This is quite possibly the shortest, most succinct post I have ever written. But I sort of had to write it. Why you ask? Because I get lots of emails asking me about coconut oil furniture polish. More specifically - how I use coconut oil to polish my furniture. I basically use it one of two ways. First I dust the furniture. Then I grab a soft … [Read more...]
6 Reasons To Use Coconut In No-Bake Treats
When it comes to quick and easy desserts and snacks, anything that doesn't have to be baked is the bee's knees, in my opinion. Whether for company, a play date, a road trip, or a potluck, no-bake treats are the perfect last-minute choice -- especially if you already keep some key ingredients in your pantry. One such ingredient is unsweetened, … [Read more...]
Coconut Oil for Constipation
Backups happen. Sometimes they are within our control and other times they are not. Either way, constipation sure isn't fun! I mean, who wants to be stuck on the throne for hours and hours, red-faced, bored to tears, pushing with all you've got, just to see a pea sized nugget of nothing at the bottom of the bowl. Not me thank-you-very-much. In … [Read more...]
Can Coconut Oil Eliminate Parasites?
“MOMMMMMMM! There is a worm coming out of my butt!” Thank goodness I have NEVER heard this from the lips of my child. I wouldn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Not that a parasitic infection in a child is out of the ordinary. SEEING a parasite would be more unusual that actually having an infestation. You see, parasites are pretty elusive. … [Read more...]
Can Coconut Oil Help With Erectile Dysfunction?
This post has been a long time coming. Seriously. Ever since my 333 Uses For Coconut Oil post went viral, my male audience has emailed me time and time again, asking if coconut oil can help with erectile dysfunction. And we aren’t talking about “too stressed out to make it work today” dysfunction. Or “baby is crying in the other room and my wife is … [Read more...]
Does Coconut Oil Clog Pipes?
So you’ve been using coconut oil for a while now. You wash with it, slather it all over your body, brush your teeth with it, cook with it, you even polish your furniture with it. You love this stuff and can’t get enough. After all, it is amazingly beneficial for you, the environment, your pets, your plants, and your … [Read more...]
DIY Pre-Shave Oil + Coconut Oil Aftershave Lotion
One upon a time there was a face. It was a happy face. With lots of facial hair. For years, the face and the hair got along just fine. But then one day, the hair disappeared. Just like that it was gone. And the face, not realizing that the hair didn’t choose to be gone, decided to get back at the hair follicles for not holding onto the hair more … [Read more...]
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