About 2 years ago my mom and I decided to do The Ultimate Reset. It is a program through Beachbody that gently restores your body, it brings your body back to its healthiest state. You quit putting toxins in your body, you have better digestion and it helps you lose weight. While doing this program, we were told to cook with coconut oil. At the time, my mom and I werent really familiar with what coconut oil was. Since then I've heard nothing but positive things about coconut oil, so I decided to do my own research to find out the benefits for myself.
Here are some of my favorite uses that I found!!
1. It can be used to moisturize your skin. Instead of using lotions that have a bunch of toxins.
2. You can use it to cook with. My favorite meal that I have made with coconut oil is stir fry. I dont know what it about the coconut oil but when it mixes with the veggies, its to die for!!!
3. It can be used as makeup remover. ***I haven't tried this yet, but I am going to try it tonight!!
4. It can help with dry calloused feet and hands. You can use just the coconut oil and rub that on your feet or you could mix the coconut oil with sugar and make a scrub out of it.
5. It can be taken as a supplement for daily energy.
6. You can use coconut oil as a coffee creamer. If you make your coffee, put the coffee and coconut oil in a blender and Wa-La!!
7. It can lighten age spots on the skin. You apply it like lotion.
8. It helps with stretch marks, put it on morning and night!
9. It will help increase sun tolerance and help avoid your skin from burning. It has SPF 4 in it.
10. It can help improve sleep when taken daily.
11. It can speed up weight loss when consumed daily.
12. It helps with baby rash.
13. It can help with frizzy hair. BUT only use a small amount... You hardly want any on your fingers, otherwise you will get greasy hair.
14. It can act as an intense face moisturizer at night.
15. It can be used as a natural chapped stick.
16. It can topically kill yeast or yeast infections.
17. It has high Lauric acid and MCFC content that helps boost metabolism.
18. It can help sooth eczema. Which for anyone who has eczema, like me, its sooooo hard to STOP ITCHING!!!
19. There is some evidence that proves that coconut oil helps digestion and may even kill intestinal parasites or yeast.
20. It can help improve insulin levels. Diabetes runs in my family so I need to constantly be checking to make sure that my levels are always on point.
21. It can be used as shaving cream and after shave lotion. This will help reduce bumps and rashes.
22. It can be used to help get rid of cradle cap. When I was little I had really bad cradle cap and during the winter to this day I still get a little dry patch on the center of my head. So I will also be using this once my dry patch comes this year!
AND my last favorite use!!!
23. Oil pulling. To oil pull, you put about 2 tablespoons of coconut oil into a cup, warm it up until its melted, put the liquid into your mouth and swish it around for 20 minutes. When you oil pull it is removing toxins, plaque and its whitening your teeth!!
Do you have any favorite uses for coconut oil?
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