6 Ideas For Using Coconut Oil

Coconut oil is currently a popular beauty product and is also used in the kitchen.

Coconut oil comes from the tropics and its scent alone brings that holiday feeling into the bathroom or kitchen at home.

If you don’t know what to do with the exotic oil, today we have six ideas for you from cosmetics and the kitchen. Try them out and discover how versatile the fat is!

Why doesn’t coconut oil look like oil?

Coconut oil is nothing but the fat of the coconut. It is extracted from the white pulp of the nuts and is solid at room temperature, but melts at body temperature, which makes it ideal as a cosmetic.

At around 25 degrees it first becomes liquid, so you should rub it between the palms of your hands for cosmetic purposes.

For frying use in the kitchen, it is important that the oil be deodorized and refined. Only then is it really heatable and suitable for deep-frying and searing.

If you only want to use coconut oil for stewing, for desserts or for cooking, you can also use unrefined and unrefined coconut oil.

It contains a lot more aroma and smells wonderful, but it must not be heated to high temperatures, otherwise carcinogenic substances are formed.

If possible, use cold-pressed organically grown coconut oil. This ensures that the oil has not been artificially hardened, but is in its natural form.

This is the only way to get a purely natural product ! In the case of cheap, industrially hydrogenated oils from conventional cultivation, so-called trans fatty acids are formed, which are harmful to health.

Is the Fat Healthy?

About 20 years ago, olive oil moved into German kitchen cabinets with a similar “fanfare train” supposedly for health-promoting properties.

Everyone suddenly started cooking with the oh-so-healthy olive oil. Today we know.

The clever advertising campaign of the lobbyists was very successful, but local types of oil such as linseed oil, safflower oil or rapeseed oil have a much better fatty acid ratio and are therefore much healthier than olive oil!

In fact, scientific medical publications warn. The German Nutrition Society (DGE) and doctors warn against eating too much coconut oil.

It contains a lot of saturated fatty acids (90%!) And is just as harmful as other such fats, for example animal fats and palm fat.

Saturated fatty acids carry a high risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

There is lauric acid in coconut oil. This should be particularly beneficial to health.

The fact is that it is converted to monolaurin in the human body. Monolaurin is said to have an antibacterial effect, but this has not yet been scientifically researched and proven.

In addition, there are much healthier foods and natural remedies that also have an antibacterial effect.

Until science has completed its research on the subject, it does not make sense to expose yourself to health risks through the saturated fatty acids in coconut oil in order to take advantage of any positive properties of lauric acid.

But the oil is delicious, which is why you can use it occasionally.

6 ideas for using coconut oil

We recommend buying cold-pressed, organically grown coconut oil because it has the best aroma.

It is just not allowed to be heated to high temperatures, but it is ideal for cosmetic purposes and for steaming. We have six ideas for you from the kitchen and bathroom that you should try:

• Foot care: Apply the oil generously and put on cotton socks. Let the intensive care work overnight. The next morning, simply remove excess fat with a facial tissue.
• Hair care: The fragrant, natural oil is a great means of caring for hair. Stubborn, curly hair is tamed with coconut oil, and extremely dry ends are cared for. Make sure, however, that you don’t take too much of it and that you rub the oil between your fingertips or palms beforehand to liquefy it.

• Massage oil: Coconut oil is ideal for use as a massage oil because it is only absorbed very slowly into the skin and therefore remains on the surface of the skin as a smooth massage film for a very long time. As a result, the masseur rarely has to “refill” and can massage for a long time without being disturbed. After the massage, however, excess oil should be wiped off with a cloth, as the skin can only absorb very little of it.

Further ideas

• Butter substitute: Try how delicious it tastes if you smear some coconut oil on your bun instead of butter or margarine and then spread jam, nut butter or chocolate cream on it. Incredibly delicious!
• Tropical taste : Instead of butter or olive oil, try steaming your vegetables in the fat of the coconut. Add a little chilli or curry and you have the taste of the tropics on your plate! Rice (rice pudding or spring rice) also gets a wonderful aroma and becomes nice and creamy if you refine it with the native oil.

• Cakes and pastries: Pancakes, waffles and cakes taste wonderful when you use coconut oil as fat instead of butter. A “cold dog” will be creamier and easier to cut if you replace palmin with coconut oil.