Coconut Oil has numerous different uses from consuming it as part of your normal daily diet, hair conditioner, face wash, moisturizer, shaving cream, deodorant, mouth wash and so many others! While I am eager to test each one of these uses out I cannot do all of them at once so my goal is to try, evalutate and reveiw them here on my blog for all my followers.
As the title suggests, my first coconut oil review will be on consuming it. Coconut oil has recieved much attention in the media lately about its many miricale uses and it’s ability to not only make a person feel better but also look better too. Who doesn’t want to look better!? What caught my attention with this simple idea of eating coconut oil is I have for sometime, about a month, been washing my face with it and have noticed great results! (Cocnut oil face wash review and tutorial coming your way soon) Not only is it chemical free, it is odor free, inexpensive and absolutely great for your over all health. A large tub of “100% Lou Ana coconut oil”, about thirty fluid ounces, retails for about $5.98 at Walmart and will last you at least a year if used in moderation.
Coconut oil is high in saturated fat. Most people when hearing this run, however if you look a little closer these fats are made up of medium chain fatty acids which our bodies digest much easier than the not so great for you long chain fatty acids. Lauric acid comprises about fifty percent of coconut oil’s composition and is highly beneficial to your immune system. This type of acid is a special kind because it has antifungal, antibiotic and antivirus properties and is not harmful to our bodies like man made kinds.
So how much should we eat and how? Ideas vary slighlty on how much one should consume daily. However, the general consensus is about three and a half tablespoons a day for adults. Now the experimental part, like I mentioned before I’ve put it on my face never in my body so I was hesitant that I wouldn’t like the flavor or consistency. When used in moderation it’s not bad! I have heard that you can use it as an alternative to using butter in most recipes so my first thought was to replace the butter on my toast with coconut oil and I was amazed. It didn’t have a coconut taste and its consistency was like that of butter. With such a bland taste it served the purpose of giving my toast that moisture I seek when applying butter to it. The great thing I found was that in order to cover my slice of bread I needed quite a bit of it so a piece of toast served as one of my three tablespoons in itself. I also decided to get a little brave and added it to my rice and broccoli instead of using butter. Over all it’s a healthy kitchen tip I intend on keeping.
If you don’t have the time to insert coconut oil into every meal then here is something interesting. When speaking with my grandmother about the topic, who is very health savvy, she told me that every morning she takes a spoon full of coconut oil and eats it plain! I know, seems like it would be completely unappealing right? I haven’t tried this tactic myself to get my daily dose but I’ve experienced putting coconut oil in my mouth alone when I tried oil pulling the other night, which I will post about very soon. I basically swashed coconut oil in my mouth for twenty minutes. In a nut shell even if you don’t get the recommended daily dose of coconut oil, making an effort to incorporate it into your life style in various ways will be beneficial to your over all health.
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