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15 Uses for Coconut Oil

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I’m, a coconut freak.  It’s been one of the constants in my life for a couple of decades or more and it’s multi purpose abilities means that I’ve found it handy.  I used to buy mine online in quantities of 6 tubs of 500 grammes at a time.  I can now buy it supermarkets, so I’ve changed my allegiance and switched brands.

The extra virgin organic and raw coconut oil is solid at room temperature, but melts very quickly when heat is added.  When we go abroad, I’ve just learned to live with the fact that the solid state of my tub of oil can fluctuate greatly.

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I go for virgin coconut oil, and the one I have this month is actually extra virgin coconut oil.  The smell is what draws me to this type of oil as I absolutely adore it.  It came into my life when I was sixteen years old and on my first holiday in Corfu, Greece.  I’d got burnt by the sun and my hair began to frazzle.  It was a Greek lady who came up to me, felt my hair and told me to go and buy a tub of coconut oil to rub into my hair and leave it overnight.  I am so grateful she did, as otherwise I’d probably never have found my favourite oil of all time.

It’s safe to say that I use coconut oil quite a lot.  I’ve slackened off using it in cooking, but I plan to remedy this quite soon.   That’s more to do with wanting to make my stocks last for as long as I could until I found Sainsbury’s stocking a fabulous smelling tub of it.

Before using coconut oil on any skin or body part, make sure you do an allergy response at least 24 hours before so that you know there won’t be any negative reactions to it.  I’m not a doctor, so ask their advice if you’re not sure about using it on your body.    An inside elbow patch is probably a good place to try it out.

People say coconut oil has anti-fungal properties and can be used as an anti-inflammatory and anti-parasitic.  I’ve never used it for any of these uses, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it helped with all of them.

1  Cooking

Why more people don’t cook with coconut oil, I have no idea.  I suspect some are cottoning onto the good uses of it as the price is beginning to come down in supermarkets for the good stuff.   I love it to add to fried fish that I’m not dry frying and to give a lovely coating for things I’d rather not stick to pans.  It has a high smoke point so it’s great for baking and replacing butter to make a recipe dairy free.

2 – Skin Cream

Yes really.  I’ve had years where the only skin care regimen I’ve had is to slap on coconut oil twice a day.  I now alternate that with oilatum in the morning and the coconut oil at night as my skin is really very very dry and can break out in dry patches.  I’ve not had any dry patch breakouts since I started using coconut oil, so for me, it’s a no brainer to use it.

3 – Make Up Remover

Are you out of baby oil, or eye make up remover liquid?  If so, your tub of coconut oil can come in extremely handy.

4 – Baby Rash Cream

Slimy to apply it may be, but coconut oil makes a for a fabulously soothing balm for sore babies bums.  Just make sure they’re not allergic before using it.

5 – Hair Conditioner and Deep Nourisher

This is what I did in Greece.  Slap it on and then pop on a towel and keep it on while you sleep.  It will take some amount of rinsing out the next morning, but your hair will feel amazing a couple of days later.  If you’re too wary of leaving it on all night, just pop it on for an hour and take it off then.

6 – Stretch Marks

People tell me that it helps to prevent stretch marks if you rub it directly on your skin when you’re pregnant.

7 – Sun Protection 

I believe it’s a natural sun protection factor of 4, but you’d have to research that for yourself.

8 – Home Made Soaps

Add it to your home made smellies and it’ll add a fabulous moisturising effect.

9 – Home Made Soy Candles

Add it to home made candles and the smell of your soy candles may well be enhanced and the texture improved.

10 – Massage Oil

It’s an oil.  It’s more practical to have one oil with multi functional purposes than to buy lots of different oils for different purposes.  Some people can’t take the smell of coconut oil as a massage, but if you do, it’s perfect for it.

11 – Lip Balm

Buy wee lip balm tubs and put some in for a lovely natural lip cream.

12 – Eczema

Helps to improve and sooth dry skin and skin problems like eczema.

13 – Energy Source

I am told it doesn’t store calories as fat in our bodies and is wrongly labelled as one of the bad fats.

14 – Cradle Cap

Soothes babies skin and flaking misery by moisturising and helps remove the horrible itching.

15 – Acne

I didn’t have acne as I always had dry skin, but people tell me that it helps with acne.  It can cause an increase in the outbreak over the first 5 days so I’d recommend anyone wishing to try it makes sure they know what the potential is before they try it.

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  1. taylority says

    June 30, 2018 at 11:18 am

    This article is informative and helpful and these uses of coconut oil is very goood for health .

    Reply
  2. janet says

    January 18, 2017 at 3:18 am

    Great post on coconut oil and were all coconut freaks 🙂
    im coconut obesessed 🙂

    janet

    Reply
  3. Alexender pop says

    September 7, 2016 at 12:33 pm

    Wow you have a great tips for uses of coconut oil. I also use coconut oil in cooking. I like to use it in some recipes. Your tips are also useful for me.. I definitely use your tips in my next cooking.. Thanks for provide these such a useful tips..

    Reply
  4. Dafferina says

    June 8, 2015 at 9:37 am

    I’ve been using coconut oil in cooking for about a year now and really love it – roast potatoes are great and the kitchen smells of coconut not fat …… Yummy!

    Reply
  5. nayan says

    October 27, 2014 at 9:06 am

    right

    Reply
  6. Liz says

    February 27, 2014 at 6:45 pm

    You know what the only time I have ever used coconut oil was for baby massage, years ago! I’m going to get some more and try some of your ideas!. Thanks for the suggestions x

    Reply
  7. WeeWifie @ One Epic Holiday says

    February 26, 2014 at 11:53 am

    Favourited this!!

    Asked for a tub on my medical prescription request about a year or so ago and got about ten tubs of it back and no idea what to do with it…

    I’d asked for it as some say it’s good for scalp psoriasis which I had at the time and was out of control, so did use on my scalp and found it helped for that.

    Hair is INSANELY dry just now and it’s disgusting… I think finally the methotrexate I’m taking for my psoriatic arthritis is playing havoc with it. Hairdressers used to be in awe of my hair… now I’m ashamed to go to them and it desperately needs it.

    So I’m gonna try this on the hair! See if it helps. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Scottish Mum says

      February 26, 2014 at 7:05 pm

      Ten tubs, you lucky woman. There are loads of things you can do with it. I love using it for fish and stir fry. I don’t seem to need as much coconut oil as I’d use of any other oils so it’s good value for me. I haven’t tried it instead of oil in bread yet, but I might give that a go soon.

      Reply
  8. Nicole Waterman says

    February 26, 2014 at 9:49 am

    Do you know, I just bought some coconut oil and have been meaning to look up other uses… thank you this post is just perfect!

    Reply
  9. Nicole Waterman says

    February 26, 2014 at 9:49 am

    Do you know, I just bought some coconut oil and have been meaning to look up other uses… thank you this post is just perfect!

    Reply
    • Scottish Mum says

      February 26, 2014 at 7:03 pm

      Enjoy. I really really like it.

      Reply
  10. Hellie says

    February 26, 2014 at 7:28 am

    Thanks for your tips. I bought a tin from Body Shop a few months ago and have hardly used it as I didn’t like the smell. From reading your post, I think I need to try another brand.

    Reply
    • Scottish Mum says

      February 26, 2014 at 7:02 pm

      Hi Hellie, if you don’t like the smell of coconut, you might find it difficult to tolerate most raw coconut. There are differences between brands, though I don’t know the body shop one.

      Reply

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