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Use coconut in your coif, flax in your food, and hemp on your hands for a minimally processed, healthier you and planet.
COCKTAIL FACT
Since coconut water (not oil) has the same pH and electrolyte balance as blood, doctors low on supplies during World War II used it in plasma transfusions.
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Wanna try cooking oils that aren't just one-trick ponies?
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Shine your spotlight on organic coconut, flaxseed, and hemp oils. Drinkable, edible, and rub-able, all of 'em offer raw talent that's good for your hair, skin, stomach, even your gas tank. [Applause.]The Benefits
- Claps for your health. Coconut oil contains lauric acid, which the body can use to kill certain viruses such as the flu. Flaxseed and hemp have mega omega-3 power, which helps lower cholesterol.
- A flair for moisturizing. All three oils are arch nemeses of dryness - on top of your skin and in your hair.
- Oohs and ahhs from your taste buds. Fend off the blahs associated with regular cooking oil with hemp or coconut oils; try flaxseed oil on your salad.
- Mama Earth'll be so proud...you're saving resources. These three crops grow extremely well without the use of herbicides, insecticides, and pesticides.
- Upstaging petroleum. You can also use flaxseed and hemp oils in coatings, lubricants, and paints - and opting for natural alternatives gives manufacturers more reason to produce them.
Personally Speaking
Heather loves Nutiva's raw, organic coconut oil - it makes her skin soft as a baby's butt, though it tastes so good she hates giving up even a spoonful.Wanna Try?
- Nutiva Extra-Virgin Coconut Oil - non-GMO and cold-pressed, this is the good stuff ($12/15 ounces).
- Spectrum Naturals Flax Oil - omega-3-rich oil that's easy to find at your local Whole Foods ($10/8 ounces).
- Rawganique Hemp Seed Oil - when cooking, use low to medium heat, since hempseed oil forms heart-unhealthy trans-fatty acids when it gets too hot ($14/8.8 ounces).
Oct 08,2008
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I Birth, Therefore I Do Not Joke
Today, after a halfhearted attempt to joke around the issue of oils (coconut, flax, hemp, what have you), I defer to an editorial written by Vanity Fair contributor Christopher Hitchins on why women are not funny. I found it hysterical.
-SF Editor Hanah...off to laugh at my own jokes...
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I absolutely love this site, I can't believe all the ideas that people come up with and how much sense they make,
bar soap for all thanks for the tip.
By the way, coconut oil also makes a great, natural sexual lubricant (if there's no condom involved). At room temperature, it's solid, so it doesn't spill. It's very slippery, and longer lasting than a water-based lube. Also smells better.
Thanks for the info on the oils. I wonder if anyone knows something I can use for psoriasis. Someone suggested coconut butter. Any help and relief would be appreciated.
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Posted by: Jackie | October 08, 2008 at 08:30 AM