Coconut oil is used in food, cosmetics, to improve health, and many other everyday uses. Read below all the benefits of this product.
- Eat a spoonful when you need higher levels of energy.
- It is used as part of recipes for body peeling treatment.
- Maintain your cutting boards in the kitchen.
- Use it as a hair conditioner (apply it on dry hair, leave it as much as possible and then wash your hair with shampoo).
- Use it for styling dry hair. Take some coconut oil, spread it on your palms and style your hair in the desired way.
- Use it as a lip moisturizer. Put some of it in a small box and always carry it in your purse.
- Coconut fat is good for animals too. Add one tablespoon in your pet’s food.
- Replace the unhealthy oil with coconut oil when cooking and baking.
- Coconut oil can be excellent and healthy ice cream topping.
- Place a small amount on your armpits and use it as a natural deodorant.
- Use it as a substitute for shaving cream.
- Pour some coconut oil in a filled tub and use it as a means of maintaining skin moisture (add a few drops of peppermint oil too).
- To remove makeup.
- To relieve the symptoms of varicella, herpes, rashes, or other skin irritations.
- For fungal feet infections.
- Take one tablespoon of coconut oil with vitamin for better absorption.
- For faster healing of cuts and burns.
- Have 5 tablespoons per day to improve the function of the thyroid.
- Add it in your smoothie for better taste and nutrition (1 tablespoon).
- Rub it around your eyes to prevent the appearance of wrinkles and bags under your eyes.
- As massage oil.
- Apply it on your baby’s diaper rash or on your baby’s cradle cap.
- For the prevention and reduction of stretch mark visibility.
- Mothers who breastfeed may rub it on the nipples to prevent cracking and skin irritation.
- Also, nursing mothers may increase the flow of milk by consuming coconut oil.
- With bee stings to ease the pain and speed up healing.
- Women can use it for vaginal fungal infection, dry skin and vaginal discomfort.
- A spoonful in your meal improves digestion.
- For the treatment of the nasal mucous membrane especially if it often bleeds.
- It helps to soothe and treat hemorrhoids.
- Have some coconut oil to reduce or eliminate migraine.
- Along with peppermint, lemon balm, rosemary or tea tree oil it is a great insect repellent.
- Mix it with sodium bicarbonate and use it as a non-toxic cleaner for kitchen appliances.
- Use during lent to help body detoxification.
- Use it for polishing metal surfaces, but first always test it on a small part.
- As a moisturizer for leather objects and clothes.
- Maintain your metal pans with coconut oil.
- To remove gum from your hair.
- Against corrosion.
- As a lubricant (it’s unsafe to combine it with latex).
- Have a spoonful when you have acid reflux.
- As a natural sun screen product (in combination with other ingredients).
- In combination with lemon juice it can be used as furniture polisher (first , always test it on smaller surfaces).
- Mix with butter and put your popcorn in the mixture.
- For the treatment of cracked or rough heels.
- Massage your nails and cuticles to strengthen them.
- With a few tablespoons a day, every day, you can improve your overall immunity.
- Apply it inside your nose in the event of leakage, allergies and swelling.
- As a lubricant for guitar strings.
- Massage tired or swollen muscles (preferably in combination with an essential oil).
- To clean the mascara brush.
- To strengthen eyelashes.
- To treat acne and pimples.
- Use it in your toast instead of butter (preferably combined with cinnamon).
- Studies show that it can help treat dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
- For lice.
- To prevent the appearance of stretch marks in pregnant women.
- Have it with your coffee or tea.
- Apply it on new tattoos to speed up the skin recovery.
- Mix it with sodium bicarbonate and use it as a facial scrub.
- Use it for dyed hair in combination with egg yolks and honey.
- Apply it on a cloth and clean dirty showers with it. Once you clean them with the coconut oil, apply some white vinegar and finally wipe them with a dry cloth.
- Mix it with garlic and use it as a special cooking ingredient.
- For blisters and moles.
- Stir with a mixer to make a frothy cream for skin hydration, which you can use all year.
- Mix it with nutmeg and apply it on stains (leave it for 10-15 minutes and then wash it out).
- Use it to relieve burns, but only after they cool down, not right after when you get burned. Otherwise the oil will keep the heat in the skin.
- To reduce eczema and psoriasis.
- Massage your dog’s skin as an anti-dandruff measure.
- Add it in your dog’s diet (1 tablespoon) to help treat arthritis or other problems with joints and ligaments, as well as problems with digestion and weight.
- Non-toxic treatment against fleas.
- To soothe your dog’s damaged skin parts.
- Have a teaspoon before meals to control your appetite.
- It helps in the treatment of candida.
- It helps to treat bladder infections and to relieve its symptoms.
- It helps to smooth wrinkles and narrow pores.
- It helps with fungal infections (internal and external).
- To clean brushes and hands after painting with oil paints.
- Use it with a sore throat (put a bit in your mouth, let it melt and slowly swallow).
- If waxing at home, use it to remove the excess wax from your skin.
- Some recommend it for patients with attention deficit or hyperactivity disorder.
- It can be used for homemade soups.
- To clean the inside of your car (put it on cloth and wax).
- Apply a few drops with the first signs of ear infection.
- In some people, coconut oil helped to soften their kidney stones thus passing them more easily.
- Use it in the kitchen to coat scissors before cutting sticky foods (e.g. dates, Turkish delight, marshmallows).
- For better effect in hemorrhoid treatment, combine it with a drop of lavender oil.
- For women who are expecting, it is recommended to moist the perineum starting from 7th or 8th month of pregnancy.
- Mix it the cinnamon and oats and use it as a facial scrub.
- Coconut oil may be used to clean the inside of your dog’s ears.
- There are cases of treatment of eye stye using coconut oil.
- It helps with vaginal dryness during menopause (recommended by Dr. Oz).
- To wipe the leaves of your plants so they shine.
- Carefully apply it on ulcers in the mouth to numb the pain and accelerate healing.
- Remove gums stuck on your shoe or on the carpet with coconut oil.
- When used in cats, it prevents creation of balls of hair.
- Feed the dog with coconut oil to improve its breathing.
- It can be used to relieve conjunctivitis.
- Some benefited in their ulcer treatment, as coconut oil fights the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.
- Use it instead of soybean oil for frying.