The wonderfully lovely smell and feel of Virgin Coconut Oil is enticing so that you will fall in love with it once you use it. Tropical Traditions VCO is organic and has a fresh, real coconut smell and taste, and once you have it in your hands there is no going back to store-bought coconut oil.
I read that eating a spoonful of VCO twice a day will give you youthful looking skin, and keep you trimmed down or help you to loose weight. There are endless ways to incorporate VCO into your diet without having to spoon feed yourself. Some recipes we have used it in: smoothies, home-baked breads, frying oil, flavoured rice, and more. Research has shown that the medium chain fatty acids found in Virgin Coconut Oil boosts the body’s metabolism, raises body temperatures, and helps boosts energy. It helps you feel fuller longer. I can attest to that fact.
VCO is good for burns and will take out the sting and pain within a half hour after applying the burned area. You just apply it by rubbing lightly on the burned area and let it dry.
Rubbing some onto your scalp before going out in the sun will help prevent getting a dry scalp when you return inside for the next couple of days. Make sure to moisturize when you come back inside from outside after rinsing your body.
Bathing is much better for your health and your skin than showering, and adding a few spoonfuls of Virgin Coconut Oil to your warm bath water and soaking for half an hour is a good way to help retain your body’s natural oils. If you do take a shower, pat dry (not rubbing), leaving your skin a little damp, then rubbing Virgin Coconut Oil on your arms and legs helps retain and lock in moisture.
Washing your hair removes some of the natural oils that are in your hair. So applying small amounts of Virgin Coconut Oil in your hair will help your hair and serve as a re-fatting agent. (Tropical Traditions actually has a hair treatment made with Virgin Coconut Oil that you can purchase from Tropical Traditions.) A study was conducted investigating three top oils used in hair treatments – mineral oil, sunflower oil, and coconut oil. It was found that the coconut oil was the one that proved to help more bad hair conditions than the other two.
Doing a pre-wash with it the night before you take a shower (if you have oily hair like mine when you don’t wash it for a few days, you can mask that you have it in your hair!) melt a couple of tablespoons of the oil by placing a small amount in a bowl and then in another bowl of hot water and then massaging it into your hair. This oil massage will feel very nice and will help you sleep better too. Double points here! You can just rinse it out in the morning and you’ve done a hair treatment.
I wish we would’ve known about Virgin Coconut Oil when my little sister had eczema when she was smaller because it helps to relieve the symptoms. It can also help in conditions like fungal infections in toes and athletes foot. You can use it by itself as a under-arm deodorant because it helps prevent body odour or use it in a mixture of other natural products.
By taking half of a lemon, squeezing it and then pouring half a teaspoon of coconut oil (melted but cooled) in lemon juice, you can rub on dry and dark elbows and knees to help with spots. It will moisturize and giving those hardly-ever massaged places would be delightful I can assure you.
I have seen some recipes that are homemade skin exfoliators that use Virgin Coconut Oil in them. They not only use Virgin Coconut Oil but also other natural ingredients such as Honey and the juice from lemons or limes. Perhaps in the future I will post some recipes for those so you can all try them. Not only does it feel good, you’ll be smelling like coconut for a while afterward.
Virgin Coconut Oil is used in many skin care products made by Tropical Traditions. All of the below items are made with Virgin Coconut Oil and/or Virgin Red Palm Oil, also very good for your skin.
Moisturizing Creams
Moisturizing Lotions
Lip Moisturizers
Skin Exfoliators
Deodorant Roll-on
Teeth Cleaners
Liquid Soaps
Bar Soaps (scented)
Bar Soap (unscented)
Shampoo Bar
Your friends will envy you and will be in disbelief when you tell them you only used a natural oil - Virgin Coconut Oil. You can get all of these items from Tropical Traditions online.
DISCLAIMER: Tropical Traditions provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose. Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product.
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About The Author
Miss Rachel J enjoys being home, in the barn, blogging and being with family. She is happy to be learning knitting, crocheting and sewing, and has always been a wiz at creating things in the kitchen. You can find out more about Miss Rachel at her blogs - A City On A Hill and Rachel’s Reasoning.
i subbed to the TT newsletter. i would like to try the honey becuz we use so much of it and i want to see if we like that one better :) i really believe in the health benefits of honey.
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i also would like to try the Skin Exfoliators since i depend on these products for good skin :)
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i follow TT on twitter
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i tweeted http://twitter.com/agodlyhomem.....5340395820
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i used feedburner a long time ago :)
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i subbed via feedburner a long time ago :)
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I’m subscribed to the newsletter. My family and I are running out of our VCO, so we are in need of another jar! That’s the product I would like. We use it so much for a lot of different things: popcorn, breads, skin care, etc…
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I would be interested in trying some of their soap or deodorants.
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I follow TT on Twitter!
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I tweeted it here: http://twitter.com/Hannah_Braboy/status/5340904035
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I already subscribe to FF via FeedBurner. :)
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I purchased some VCO. I love that stuff! My sisters even call me “The Coconut Oil Queen”. LOL!
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I follow you on Twitter :)
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The Benefect Botanical Disinfectant looks great! I’d love to have something like that that I wouldn’t feel worried about using near food.
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Thank you Rachel for writing this – lots of great info!
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All right, all right. I’ve heard enough from you Dixon’s about this oil…I’m entering!!! ;D lol Gotta see this stuff for myself!! lol
The other product I liked from their site was their organic lip balm. Why? My lips feel really chapped right now!! ;) That stuff looks like it would really work, too…
Also signed up for their newsletter.
Hugs!!
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I subscribed to the newsletter & something I would like to try is the VCO Hair Treatment
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Another product I would like to try is their lip moisturizer.
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I’m following them on twitter (lisasca)
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I tweeted: http://twitter.com/lisasca/statuses/5352361447
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I subscribed to FF’s feedburner
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I blogged about this giveaway (assuming what I did counts as blogging about it :)) http://amongstthorns.lisa-s.ca.....-feminine/
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I am subscribed to FF’s on feedburner. Please include me in the giveaway. I will announce your giveaway on my blog today! God bless, Rose
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I’am suscribed to the newsletter. I would also love to try the cocunut soap tea tree.
Thanks for this wonderful giveaway.
Emily
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I would also like to try the Cinnamon/Peppermint Lip Moisturizer.
Emily
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I tweeted about it again here: http://twitter.com/Hannah_Brab.....5482366015.
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Wonderful giveaway! I am already subscribed to the newsletter, and another product I’m interested in would be the Organic Brown Rice Syrup.
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I posted on my blog about it here: http://sallyfromthefarm.blogsp.....ue-of.html
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I love coconut oil! We have been buying gallons of it from tropical traditions for a few years now! We use expeller pressed coconut oil in cookies and cakes as a sub. for shortning. Coconut oil does help chapped hands in winter, and smells heavenly!
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Yes! I discovered coconut oil this summer and I simply love it! It moisturizes much better than a lotion and I love knowing that it is completely natural, no chemicals.
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