You Can Use Coconut Oil for What? - Awesome Giveaway!

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Coconut oil keeps showing up everywhere. I first heard about the benefits of cooking with coconut oil a couple of years ago because I always, always, always look for ways to cook and eat more healthfully. 

Although high in saturated fats, coconut oil contains fats that are good for us like Omega-3 fatty acids and something called medium chain triglycerides that increase our metabolic function, are utilized by our body without turning to fat and are digested easily.  It's important to look for coconut oil that is not hydrogenated, however.

Tropical Traditions sent me a free sample of their Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil.  I cooked with it then started researching other uses for coconut oil and found hundreds more uses beyond cooking.  Do a Google search for uses of coconut oil and you'll find more hits then you'll ever have time to check. Here's a teaser:

• as a moisturizer 
• treat insect bites 
• gets rid of "doggy" breath (for your dog, of course)
• controls "doggy" dandruff (and people dandruff too)
• fade age spots
• as a natural deodorant
• hair de-frizzer
• kills lice and lice eggs
• teeth whitener
• energy booster
• treat eczema

People claim many medical benefits, but as I researched I learned that scientific study on coconut oil is in its early stages, so I hesitate to comment on the medical aspect.

I do know that I cooked the most delicious whole wheat blueberry pancakes ever using coconut oil and when I made a boxed cake mix for my husband's birthday using coconut instead of regular vegetable oil it tasted fantastic, like it had been baked from scratch.

Now that I know about dozens (hundreds) of other uses, I can't wait to try my coconut oil in new and different applications.  Do you want to try some too?  Tropical Traditions allowed me to host a giveaway for one quart of their delicious coconut oil.

Here's the commercial first.

Win 1 quart of Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil!

Tropical Traditions is America’s source for coconut oil. Their Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil is hand crafted in small batches by family producers, and it is the highest quality coconut oil they offer. You can read more about how virgin coconut oil is different from other coconut oils on their website: What is Virgin Coconut Oil?
You can also watch the video they produced about Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil

Tropical Traditions also carries other varieties of affordable high quality coconut oil. Visit their website to check on current sales, to learn about the many uses of coconut oil, and to read about all the advantages of buying coconut oil online. Since the FDA does not want us to discuss the health benefits of coconut oil on a page where it is being sold or given away, here is the best website to read about the health benefits of coconut oil.

So, do you want to win?  Enter below.  The winner will be announced Monday, August 13.

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Tropical Traditions gave me a free sample of Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil to try and review.  All opinions expressed are my own