Coconut Oil: Is It A Beauty Miracle?

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If you live on this planet, chances are you know that coconut oil â and, well, oil in general â 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 â 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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00:03so 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 gonna apply it as a moisturizer I'm

00:36going

00:36to use it as deodorant I am 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 no

01:08armpit close-ups please so weird this is one thing about those natural cream deodorants you have to

01:18like put it on like this I'm gonna put it on my face I'm just gonna put this mainly on

01:34my ends that

01:38is shockingly smooth it feels greasy but I like that like you know it's doing something so it's easy to

01:44apply to my skin it feels pretty smooth I'm all set with my coconut oil and we'll see if I

01:51smell when

01:52I come back later so now I'm going to go back to my desk and read a few emails and

01:56multitask as this

01:57sits in my hair so it's been about 30 minutes so I'm gonna go ahead and wash this out of

02:16my hair

02:21I'm not the biggest fan of how it's making my hair feel I mean I will say it looks

02:26shinier my mouth is just tired it was a long stressful day I mean it's not like the worst BO

02:33I've ever had I feel like I have some really great shine going on and I'm into that I definitely

02:42would

02:42use it again I not only would use it for my legs but also for the rest of my body

02:48this could definitely

02:50be my new body moisturizer I didn't enjoy it but it wasn't the most awful thing I did notice it

02:59says

02:59the substitute for butter and baking recipes so I mean I guess I could go make biscuits with this

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