100 Uses and Benefits of Coconut Oil

Coconut oil is used in food, cosmetics, to improve health, and many other everyday uses. Read below all the benefits of this product.

1. Eat a spoonful when you need higher levels of energy.
2. It is used as part of recipes for body peeling treatment.
3. Maintain your cutting boards in the kitchen.
4. Use it as a hair conditioner (apply it on dry hair, leave it as much as possible and then wash your hair with shampoo).
5. Use it for styling dry hair. Take some coconut oil, spread it on your palms and style your hair in the desired way.
6. Use it as a lip moisturizer. Put some of it in a small box and always carry it in your purse.
7. Coconut fat is good for animals too. Add one tablespoon in your pet’s food.
8. Replace the unhealthy oil with coconut oil when cooking and baking.
9. Coconut oil can be excellent and healthy ice cream topping.
10. Place a small amount on your armpits and use it as a natural deodorant.
11. Use it as a substitute for shaving cream.
12. 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).
13. To remove makeup.
14. To relieve the symptoms of varicella, herpes, rashes, or other skin irritations.
15. For fungal feet infections.
16. Take one tablespoon of coconut oil with vitamin for better absorption.
17. For faster healing of cuts and burns.
18. Have 5 tablespoons per day to improve the function of the thyroid.
19. Add it in your smoothie for better taste and nutrition (1 tablespoon).
20. Rub it around your eyes to prevent the appearance of wrinkles and bags under your eyes.
21. As massage oil.
22. Apply it on your baby’s diaper rash or on your baby’s cradle cap.
23. For the prevention and reduction of stretch mark visibility.
24. Mothers who breastfeed may rub it on the nipples to prevent cracking and skin irritation.
25. Also, nursing mothers may increase the flow of milk by consuming coconut oil.
26. With bee stings to ease the pain and speed up healing.
27. Women can use it for vaginal fungal infection, dry skin and vaginal discomfort.
28. A spoonful in your meal improves digestion.
29. For the treatment of the nasal mucous membrane especially if it often bleeds.
30. It helps to soothe and treat hemorrhoids.
31. Have some coconut oil to reduce or eliminate migraine.
32. Along with peppermint, lemon balm, rosemary or tea tree oil it is a great insect repellent.
33. Mix it with sodium bicarbonate and use it as a non-toxic cleaner for kitchen appliances.
34. Use during lent to help body detoxification.
35. Use it for polishing metal surfaces, but first always test it on a small part.
36. As a moisturizer for leather objects and clothes.
37. Maintain your metal pans with coconut oil.
38. To remove gum from your hair.
39. Against corrosion.
40. As a lubricant (it’s unsafe to combine it with latex).
41. Have a spoonful when you have acid reflux.
42. As a natural sun screen product (in combination with other ingredients).
43. In combination with lemon juice it can be used as furniture polisher (first , always test it on smaller surfaces).
44. Mix with butter and put your popcorn in the mixture.
45. For the treatment of cracked or rough heels.
46. ​​Massage your nails and cuticles to strengthen them.
47. With a few tablespoons a day, every day, you can improve your overall immunity.
48. Apply it inside your nose in the event of leakage, allergies and swelling.
49. As a lubricant for guitar strings.
50. Massage tired or swollen muscles (preferably in combination with an essential oil).
51. To clean the mascara brush.
52. To strengthen eyelashes.
53. To treat acne and pimples.
54. Use it in your toast instead of butter (preferably combined with cinnamon).
55. Studies show that it can help treat dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
56. For lice.
57. To prevent the appearance of stretch marks in pregnant women.
58. Have it with your coffee or tea.
59. Apply it on new tattoos to speed up the skin recovery.
60. Mix it with sodium bicarbonate and use it as a facial scrub.
61. Use it for dyed hair in combination with egg yolks and honey.
62. 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.
63. Mix it with garlic and use it as a special cooking ingredient.
64. For blisters and moles.
65. Stir with a mixer to make a frothy cream for skin hydration, which you can use all year.
66. Mix it with nutmeg and apply it on stains (leave it for 10-15 minutes and then wash it out).
67. 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.
68. To reduce eczema and psoriasis.
69. Massage your dog’s skin as an anti-dandruff measure.
70. 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.
71. Non-toxic treatment against fleas.
72. To soothe your dog’s damaged skin parts.
73. Have a teaspoon before meals to control your appetite.
74. It helps in the treatment of candida.
75. It helps to treat bladder infections and to relieve its symptoms.
76. It helps to smooth wrinkles and narrow pores.
77. It helps with fungal infections (internal and external).
78. To clean brushes and hands after painting with oil paints.
79. Use it with a sore throat (put a bit in your mouth, let it melt and slowly swallow).
80. If waxing at home, use it to remove the excess wax from your skin.
81. Some recommend it for patients with attention deficit or hyperactivity disorder.
82. It can be used for homemade soups.
83. To clean the inside of your car (put it on cloth and wax).
84. Apply a few drops with the first signs of ear infection.
85. In some people, coconut oil helped to soften their kidney stones thus passing them more easily.
86. Use it in the kitchen to coat scissors before cutting sticky foods (e.g. dates, Turkish delight, marshmallows).
87. For better effect in hemorrhoid treatment, combine it with a drop of lavender oil.
88. For women who are expecting, it is recommended to moist the perineum starting from 7th or 8th month of pregnancy.
89. Mix it the cinnamon and oats and use it as a facial scrub.
90. Coconut oil may be used to clean the inside of your dog’s ears.
91. There are cases of treatment of eye stye using coconut oil.
92. It helps with vaginal dryness during menopause (recommended by Dr. Oz).
93. To wipe the leaves of your plants so they shine.
94. Carefully apply it on ulcers in the mouth to numb the pain and accelerate healing.
95. Remove gums stuck on your shoe or on the carpet with coconut oil.
96. When used in cats, it prevents creation of balls of hair.
97. Feed the dog with coconut oil to improve its breathing.
98. It can be used to relieve conjunctivitis.
99. Some benefited in their ulcer treatment, as coconut oil fights the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.
100. Use it instead of soybean oil for frying.