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If you live on this planet, chances are you know that coconut oil — and, well, oil in general — is having a major moment in the beauty scene. The entire web is abuzz with talk of using coconut oil for oil pulling (swishing coconut oil around in your mouth for 20 minutes with the goal of expelling toxins and freshening your breath), hair treatments, face moisturizer, shaving cream, body lotion — even as deodorant. So, naturally, we decided that it was high time to put coconut oil to the test. And oh, did we ever.

To really understand the scope of coconut oil's possibilities, we rounded up a whole batch of our intrepid staffers, and assigned each of them the task of replacing an aspect of their beauty routine with a good ol' jar of the tropical stuff. Did coconut oil live up to its magical, all-powerful reputation? Well, it was a bit of a mixed bag (we can't say that we'll be smearing it on our armpits again anytime soon), but on the whole, the venerable coconut shocked and awed with its magical moisturizing abilities. Tune in to see how it all went down...
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00:02so before we do this so what is coconut oil I think of coconut oil for cooking palm trees
00:10maybe I'm on vacation so today I'm going to be using organic refined expeller pressed coconut
00:18oil I've never used any completely natural product I don't think I honestly am NOT a big DIY person
00:25I'm just too lazy to like figure out what to use naturally today I'm going to be using the coconut
00:29oil as a body lotion I'm going to be shaving my legs I'm going to apply it as a moisturizer
00:35I'm
00:36going to use it as deodorant I'm going to be shaving my face I'm using coconut oil on my hair
00:42in my
00:42mouth it doesn't look like it's going to absorb into my skin the way a lotion would it seems a
00:49little dubious to me the whole oil pulling thing honestly I'm a little concerned that I'm gonna
00:54cut myself shaving for the first time in two years on camera it says use up to medium heat I
00:59wonder
01:00what heat I am it's really hard wow it's not like your typical moisturizer it melted pretty quickly
01:07no armpit close-ups please so weird this is one thing about those natural cream deodorants you
01:18have to like put it on like this I'm gonna put it on my face I'm just gonna put this
01:33mainly on my ends
01:37that is shockingly smooth it feels greasy but I like that like you know it's doing something so
01:43it was easy to apply to my skin it feels pretty smooth I'm all set with my coconut oil and
01:50we'll
01:50see if I smell when I come back later so now I'm going to go back to my desk and
01:54read a few emails
01:55and multitask because it sits in my hair so it's been about 30 minutes so I'm going to go ahead
02:15and
02:15wash this out of my hair I'm not the biggest fan of how it's making my hair feel I mean
02:24I will say
02:25it looks shinier my mouth is just tired oh it's a long stressful day I mean it's not like the
02:33worst
02:33BO I've ever had I feel like I have some really great shine going on and I'm into that I
02:41definitely
02:42would use it again I not only would use it for my legs but also for the rest of my
02:48body this could
02:50definitely be my new body moisturizer I didn't enjoy it but it wasn't the most awful thing I did notice
02:59it
02:59says a substitute for butter and baking recipes so I mean I guess I could go make biscuits with this
03:12I'm going to start making biscuits with this.
03:12because I know it is so bad so that's how it goes to the side of my hair it just
03:12so everything was good though it wasn't for me leave you out there too
03:12so we can't do it to my hair and know it's how it can be with me
03:12that's really cool but I can do it okay so I can do it so I can get it
03:12so I can do it and I can do it on my hair.
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