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Title: Coconut oil
Post by: stlaser on April 22, 2017, 08:52:07 AM
So I stumbled across this being used for sunscreen & my daughters already use it for a number of girly things. I then wondered how many uses there are for this substance & come to find out it looks like one article which I'll list below shows 77 uses. Maybe this is something I should stock more of now. It lasts for up to 3 years, this has so many uses wasn't sure where to put it so I threw it in here.

https://draxe.com/coconut-oil-uses/

& this link shows 101

https://wellnessmama.com/5734/coconut-oil/
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: TexasRedNeck on April 22, 2017, 11:06:23 AM
there is also studies that show it helps inflammatory diseases, like Crohn's
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: Flyin6 on April 22, 2017, 07:27:25 PM
Thanks for putting this up!

Maybe copy it over to the medical section...???
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: stlaser on April 22, 2017, 10:12:24 PM
Thanks for putting this up!

Maybe copy it over to the medical section...???

Or the cooking?
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: dave945 on April 22, 2017, 10:54:57 PM
We use coconut oil for quite s few things around the house, from cooking to cosmetics. Put a good spoonful in our stovetop popcorn popper instead of veggie oil, gives the popcorn a good fresh taste. If you do anything with essential oils, it is a real good carrier oil or for dilution. My wife uses it for cleaning off the war paint at night, cuts through all the crud and moisturizers st the same time.   We buy ours in bulk, by the gallon from A company called Soapers Choice.
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: BobbyB on April 23, 2017, 07:24:29 AM
I put some coconut oil in my coffee to try it out.... once! It smelled like an Almond Joy candy bar, but it most definitely did NOT taste like it.
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: Flyin6 on April 23, 2017, 08:06:14 AM
We have a big gallon jar of the semi-solid form of the stuff. I had no clue what to use it for!
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: stlaser on April 23, 2017, 08:44:41 AM
Someone told me you can spread a protective layer on pink foam board & it will stops bullets! It also brings out a nice gloss shine to pretty it up a bit. Anyhow that was the story I heard..... :facepalm:
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: Farmer Jon on April 23, 2017, 09:37:46 AM
 Coconut oil for run screen. Hmmm anyone else remember that sinfield episode where Kramer used butter to tan?

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Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: CSM on April 23, 2017, 10:54:11 PM
We get the cold pressed, unrefined stuff from Costco and use it every day. My wife uses it for makeup removal and skin moisturizing, but we also put it into our morning coffee (with some sweetner) and blend it in the blender to froth it up like a cappuccino. Even use it as a teeth whitener... and it works great.

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Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: JR on April 24, 2017, 01:04:20 AM
I hate coconut.
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: BobbyB on April 24, 2017, 06:35:48 AM
So since we now have a CSM on the board does that mean walking on the grass and putting hands in pockets is now verboten?
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: Bear9350 on April 24, 2017, 08:03:01 AM
My wife likes to use it for a lot of things.  She uses it in solid form for lotion type stuff and cooking.  I personally don't care for it when she cooks with it.  Probably because I cook everything in butter.  She also has it in a liquid form that she uses with her essential oils. 
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: EL TATE on April 24, 2017, 10:45:15 AM
We get the cold pressed, unrefined stuff from Costco and use it every day. My wife uses it for makeup removal and skin moisturizing, but we also put it into our morning coffee (with some sweetner) and blend it in the blender to froth it up like a cappuccino. Even use it as a teeth whitener... and it works great.

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Bobby,

if you don't blend it, like he stated you wind up with a slightly coconut flavor oil slick on the surface. blended is OK but careful you don't use too much or you wind up with excessive lubrication of internal hydraulics and waste management systems.
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: BobbyB on April 24, 2017, 02:15:12 PM
We get the cold pressed, unrefined stuff from Costco and use it every day. My wife uses it for makeup removal and skin moisturizing, but we also put it into our morning coffee (with some sweetner) and blend it in the blender to froth it up like a cappuccino. Even use it as a teeth whitener... and it works great.

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Bobby,

if you don't blend it, like he stated you wind up with a slightly coconut flavor oil slick on the surface. blended is OK but careful you don't use too much or you wind up with excessive lubrication of internal hydraulics and waste management systems.

There was an oil slick. I blended it, well I put it in the coffee and mixed it with a spoon. But I didn't put my coffee in the blender, I think for hot coffee that's a crime.
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: EL TATE on April 24, 2017, 02:45:50 PM

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There was an oil slick. I blended it, well I put it in the coffee and mixed it with a spoon. But I didn't put my coffee in the blender, I think for hot coffee that's a crime.
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Trust me, I agree with you. I had to "try" the butter coffee trend too when facebook told her to. the blender was the only way to make it work, but yes, criminal. Black and in a cup works great for me.
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: Nate on April 24, 2017, 04:47:04 PM
tater, you need to go stand in the corner for such violations of the black go go juice............................!
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: Sammconn on April 24, 2017, 05:05:54 PM
Coconut quoffee...
SMH...
 :knucklehead:
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: EL TATE on April 24, 2017, 06:10:20 PM
I was coerced, forced, held at gunpoint, ransomed, guilted into it tells ya.
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: CSM on April 24, 2017, 07:42:39 PM
I always drank my coffee black, until I started doing it this way a couple of years ago. Unlike a certain helicopter pilot we all know, who has to foo foo it up with all kinds of chemical sweetners before he's able to take a sip :)

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Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: cudakidd53 on April 24, 2017, 08:01:57 PM
I at least converted said helicopter pilot to use "bourbon creme" to lighten and sweeten his coffee.....while the supply lasted!  Given that he's in the motherland for such libations, there really is no excuse for him to have strayed for said conversion, except for the obvious fact that his hefty intake of said liquid would probably ended with him visiting Betty Fords Clinic. :shocked:
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: Bob Smith on April 24, 2017, 09:03:54 PM
That could explain all the damage to the equipment
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: Flyin6 on April 25, 2017, 07:31:32 PM
We get the cold pressed, unrefined stuff from Costco and use it every day. My wife uses it for makeup removal and skin moisturizing, but we also put it into our morning coffee (with some sweetner) and blend it in the blender to froth it up like a cappuccino. Even use it as a teeth whitener... and it works great.

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Corey, is that what she put in my coffee that night down at your place?
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: Flyin6 on April 25, 2017, 07:31:59 PM
I always drank my coffee black, until I started doing it this way a couple of years ago. Unlike a certain helicopter pilot we all know, who has to foo foo it up with all kinds of chemical sweetners before he's able to take a sip :)

Thankful for the life God's blessed me with... beautiful wife, great kids, and time to be with them!


Not that kind of CSM Bobby!

He's my brother in law...initials...
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: BobbyB on April 25, 2017, 07:44:31 PM
I always drank my coffee black, until I started doing it this way a couple of years ago. Unlike a certain helicopter pilot we all know, who has to foo foo it up with all kinds of chemical sweetners before he's able to take a sip :)

Thankful for the life God's blessed me with... beautiful wife, great kids, and time to be with them!


Not that kind of CSM Bobby!

He's my brother in law...initials...

Well, I'd still walk on the grass, put my hands in my pockets and have a beard (if I let one grow again) so HA.
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: Flyin6 on April 25, 2017, 08:15:52 PM
I always drank my coffee black, until I started doing it this way a couple of years ago. Unlike a certain helicopter pilot we all know, who has to foo foo it up with all kinds of chemical sweetners before he's able to take a sip :)

Thankful for the life God's blessed me with... beautiful wife, great kids, and time to be with them!


Not that kind of CSM Bobby!

He's my brother in law...initials...

Well, I'd still walk on the grass, put my hands in my pockets and have a beard (if I let one grow again) so HA.
I doubt he'd say anything about it!

Forgets to shave himself sometimes
Title: Re: Coconut oil
Post by: BobbyB on April 25, 2017, 09:55:01 PM
I doubt he'd say anything about it!

Forgets to shave himself sometimes


Geez the grooming standards are just falling apart!
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