...but I have learned a lot about coconut oil!
If y'all have been reading from the beginning of my blog, you will remember that I said I was going to try oil pulling because I read about it on some other blog somewhere and it supposedly has all of these great health benefits. I have no doubt that this is true, however I am apparently not hipster enough to stick to it! I literally tried it like 3 times and then decided I was over it. As a result of my lack of dedication I was left with an almost full jar of organic unrefined coconut oil that looks like this:
I got my mother to buy this for me at Sprouts because as a college student I am too poor to buy it, but since I have started using it I would definitely say I will buy some when this jar runs out!
So apparently coconut oil is a very handy thing. First off--yes you can start oil pulling. You take a couple tablespoons of this stuff and swish it in your mouth for like 20 minutes (WARNING: The first time you try this you might gag. Let's pretend I don't know that from personal experience. Coconut oil is not a liquid at room temp so it takes a minute for the goop to melt on your tongue.) Benefits of this include:
-Whiter teeth
- Gets rid of bacteria
-Helps with migraines
-Helps with psoriasis
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Google it if you want more info :)
The next benefit is that coconut oil is great for your hair. Scoop some out while you're in the shower and coat your hair with it just like you would a conditioner and let it sit for a couple minutes while you shave or scrub or something. Then wash it out a voila! Super soft hair. You just found yourself a once a week deep conditioning treatment.
The third thing I have used coconut oil for is cooking! Yep, you read that right. Instead of canola oil which is all artificial and man made, I used coconut oil in the last chicken dish I cooked. It came out of Cooking Light magazine, and was basically pan fried coconut chicken strips. You take the chicken, and "dredge" (this is a fancy cooking term that I took to mean "cover") it in rice flour, then a mixture of buttermilk and one large egg, then unsweetened coconut flakes *side note--they do not sell these at Brookshire Brothers. So much for small town grocery shopping. How do they have rice flower, but not unsweetened coconut flakes?!*. Heat a skillet to medium heat and coat it with a couple tablespoons of coconut oil and then cook the chicken for like 7 minutes/until the coconut flakes are brown. It was delicious and only like 290 calories for three strips. I added in a little extra for mine since I had sweetened coconut flakes. I think it would be okay to use even if you weren't cooking a coconut dish, because it smells more like coconut than it actually tastes like it. You will discover this if you try oil pulling.
The final use for coconut oil, and probably my favorite, is eye make up remover! I used to have a Mary-Kay eye make up remover that I LOVED. Then after I got this jar I saw a pin on Pinterest where the woman said she used it as eye make up remover. Genius I say! I made a couple adjustments to her instructions. She said she scooped it onto her fingers and rubbed it on her eyes until she felt the mascara come off. When I tried this I got coconut oil all up in my eyes and it was really uncomfortable. #embarrassing.
So now what I do is take a cotton ball, swirl it around the top layer of the coconut oil in the jar until there is a decent amount on the cotton ball, and continue just like you would with normal eye make up remover.
Like this:
It works really well! As seen here:
Look at all that gross stuff I got off of my eye lids. Right eye was just wiped, and left eye still has make up. Afterwards, your eyes are kind of oily, but that is the perfect way to prevent wrinkles. You may be 21 now--but this is when you have to start fighting stuff like that (or so my mother tells me). So then you go to sleep and wake-up with moisturized eye lids. #nocrowsfeetforme
So these are the things I use coconut oil for. Hopefully this was a helpful tip! Let me know if y'all use it for anything else :)
-L
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