coconut oil
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Homemade Magic Shell Is Almost Too Easy
Chocolate magic shell does seem like something of a miracle. A saturated fat (usually coconut oil) and chocolate are melted and stirred together, and the shiny sauce is poured over something cold (usually ice cream) to make a hard candy coating that you crack with your spoon. It’s fun, interactive, and delicious. How does magic…
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Coconut Oil Will Rid Your Hands Of Garlic Stink
Tips and tricks come at you when you least at expect them. Just last week, I was unwinding from a hard day of hacking food with an episode of the new Queer Eye, when food expert/T-shirt aficionado/new Ted Allen Antoni Porowski told whatever straight dude he was working on (they all blend together) that a…
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Please Calm Down: Coconut Oil Is Fine
Who doesn’t love logging on to the good old ‘net on a Saturday morning to the headline “Coconut oil ‘as unhealthy as beef fat and butter’”? It has everything. “Ah,” you might think, “my favourite health product is as bad as butter!” Or you might even say to yourself, “Those coconut oil-huffing liberals are really…
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Deep Condition Your Hair With Coconut Oil
Coconut may be overhyped as a multipurpose wonder and cure-all, but there are a few things it does very well. One of them, according to a cosmetic chemist, is condition your hair just as well as — maybe better than — “deep conditioning” treatments.