Since I have been in the essential oil business over the last couple months, I have been asked a few times if coconut oil is an essential oil. While it is not an essential oil and is a fatty oil (or a carrier oil) by definition, it does have some healing capabilities. I have researched it a bit this week and I thought I would share it with you. Coconut can be used as a skin moisturizer, hair conditioner, and used in homemade lip balms, body creams and any other kind of moisturizer. You can also check out this article that lists 101 ways to use coconut oil http://wellnessmama.com/5734/101-uses-for-coconut-oil/ .
I was reading the other day on Wellness Mama that coconut oil is really good for your teeth. It is high in vitamin D which your bones need to regenerate themselves. She has had her teeth correct cavities and other dental problems just from eating coconut oil. I knew that coconut oil can be used as a natural whitener if you brush with it. Here is a link to her article about how she found out that coconut oil can fix cavities http://wellnessmama.com/3650/how-to-remineralize-teeth-naturally/. When I got done reading this article, I decided to read the ingredients list on the back of my toothpaste from Young Living. My toothpaste has coconut oil in it! After I read this I was even more excited about my essential oil and coconut oil infused toothpaste. This wonderful oil not only helps your teeth remineralize, but it also works as a natural whitening. If you would like too check this great toothpaste out, that has absolutely no chemicals in it go to www.youngliving.com and check out their other great products as well. And if you decide to order some stuff, enter my member # (which is 1564241) in the sponsor and enroller # slots that are at the top of the order form.
Coconut Oil is also a natural sunscreen, http://wellnessmama.com/4621/eat-your-sunscreen/. I had heard that coconut oil was a natural sunscreen somewhere else, but these articles confirmed it. It is high in vitamin D, and because of that coconut oil helps our bodies get the amount of vitamin D that they need so we won't burn. It has a natural SPF 4 content. The point of eating coconut oil or using it on your skin directly is not to keep out the sun completely, but to help your body fill its need for important vitamins and minerals that cause us to burn if they are not properly maintained. Wellness Mama also has a recipe for homemade natural sunscreen, here is the link http://wellnessmama.com/2558/natural-homemade-sunscreen-recipe/. As a redhead, I burn really easily, so I look forward to trying coconut oil this summer. There are also some essential oils that act as a sunscreen. They are Helichrysum Essential Oil and Tamanu Essential Oil. To use these essential oils just add them to a carrier oil (like V-6, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, or coconut oil) and apply it to your skin.You could also add them into the recipe I shared from Wellness Mama. These essential Oils can also be found at Young Living as well. I know it's a little early in the year to be talking about sunscreen and sunburns, but it's a side of coconut oil that not very many people know about.
On a slightly different note, I have been helping with the petition to end Taxpayer Funded Abortions in Oregon. We have till Mother's day to get all the signatures we need. Last time I heard we had already collected 33,000 signatures and we need 150,000. Please sign it if you are a registered Oregon voter. You can do it a couple ways, you can either sign it when you see me next or you can go to www.oregon2014.org and print out the sheet there and sign it, then turn it in. I would really like to see this bill make it onto the ballot in November, there is still some time for you to help get it there. Ronald Reagan wrote an article called "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation". It was written 10 years after Roe v. Wade was passed. President Reagan was against abortion being legalized and wrote this book to try and awaken the country to where it was headed. Let's work toward's getting rid of abortion in our state and then our country. It's not to late to do something about it. Let's end abortion now.
I look forward to talking to you all next week and I hope that you all have a good week!
Soli Deo Gloria!
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