Cocoanut Oil Question

[jaideeguy]

I just bought a litre bottle of cocoanut oil to rehydrate my 92 yr old Pop's flakey dry skin for 145thb and there were 4 or 5 other brands for 10X the price. The labeling was in Thai only, so I took a chance and bought it, brought it home for the wife to intrepret and she says it is for cooking and sure enough, it smells strongly of cocoanut cookies....nice smell, but is there any harm in using it on Pop's skin??

FYI, I tried to do a search, but search function was not working.

Thanks in advance....

[sinbin]

Perfectly safe. http://www.ehow.com/how_5702339_use-oil-healthy-hand-cream.html

[MisterMan]

Hi Cold pressed virgin coconut oil is best, it should be perfectly clear and have a lightly toasted smell.

If it is any other colour that means it has been heated or processed in some way meaning that is is going to be lacking in all its goodness.

I use it 2x a day on my face, night and morning and have for some years now. It is much better in my opinion then any other commercial lotions full of toxins. (just check out the ingredients of lotions and name brand lotions here www.ewg.org)

If your coconut oil has added fragrance to it as many thai beauty coconut oils do then it could cause more drying (alcohol + fragrance =perfume) or be irritating.

Where do you live? Should be easy to find a reasonably priced bottle, about 300 baht for 250 -400+ ml of cold pressed pure goodness.

Just google "coconut oil cures".

I use it as lotion, make up remover, base for make up (I am not a man),

on the cats ears when they had ear mites, after sun, dry skin, hair gloss, and internally ..