Many people think of cooking oils as something for the kitchen and the kitchen only. Having gained some notoriety and conventional approval, coconut oil is becoming more popular for cooking and baking. It also provides a useful non-stick coating for pots and pans, measuring spoons and utensils can even be coated with this before use to make cleaning easier – it helps prevent things sticking to utensils. It can be used as an effective cleaner for stainless steel appliances, cooking or baking sheets.

Coconut oil also has numerous uses in natural beauty routines and many green beauty fans will always keep an extra jar in the house for skincare purposes only. The reasons to keep a jar in the bathroom include:
i) Diaper rash cream
ii) Deodorant
iii) Hair conditioner
iv) Insect repellant
v) Lip gloss
vi) Moisturizer
vii) Shaving foam
viii) Sunscreen
ix) Sexual lubricant
x) Wound care
Adding a tablespoon or two to a warm running bath can help to give the hair and body moisture and leave a light scent of the tropics on the skin.

Well there are reasons to keep a third or fourth bottle around the house as this wonder oil also has a place in many rooms inside and outside of the house. In the garage coconut oil can be used to grease squeaky hinges, maintain lawn mower blades, as a motor lubricant, even detailing a car, as it can be used as a leather polish, it will make leather upholstery and dashboards shine, it can also shine up a hood that has been splattered with bugs, it can even be used to remove rust – rub coconut oil, let it sit for an hour and wipe away with some warm water.

Around the house it can be used to prevent kitty litter from sticking to the bin, remove any sticky residue (left over from stickers or Blue Tak), shine plants – it will give green leaves a healthy sheen and keep dust from settling, it can be used as a cleaner – it can remove scuff marks from floors, a polish for furniture, bronze, metal, and leather, it can clean ink off of plastic or vinyl and makes a great bathtub and shower cleaner. It can also be used to grease leather boots.
In the garden shed, if a small amount of coconut oil is rubbed on clean gardening tools before they are used in the dirt, it will help keep them clean – and is not an irritant to the garden soil. Afterwards it can be used as a metal polish for the same tools.