Product Review & Giveaway ~ Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil & Homemade Salve

We had the opportunity to review Tropical Traditions Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil. The only thing I’ve used coconut oil for up until now was homemade chocolate hard shell for ice cream (which is SUPER YUMMY!) but I wanted to make something different with it. So I took some time to do some investigation and finally decided I wanted to make this homemade salve. [I do understand that this is supposed to be an EXCELLENT substitute for different oils used in cooking…see below for more on that.]

In order to make it, you need beeswax, coconut oil and essential oil. So…off to find my items I went (well, I had the Tropical Traditions Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil already…only needed to find the other two). Well, low and behold if a friend of ours up in Minnesota doesn’t have beeswax…and my husband and son were headed that way! (Could have only been the Lord!) So, they picked some up for me while they were there and brought it back home.

I then found out that one of my favorite places to order, Azure Standard, carries essential oils…this was then a no brainer! Got it ordered and picked it up Friday. Double WOOT!

Here is a picture of the beeswax and our scale…

So…here is the process I went through…I cut off and weighed 2 oz of beeswax and put in in a homemade double broiler. *giggle*

Then my “little helper” (with a cold, poor thing!) helped me scoop the coconut oil out of the container into the measuring cup…

Impatiently waiting for the beeswax to melt…almost melted!

Once melted it was removed from heat and added Coconut Oil…

Then essential oil (for fragrance)…[I don’t necessarily recommend this brand…it is just what I bought]…

waiting for the melting again (this time the coconut oil)…

Once it was done, I poured into a glass container (I was glad I had a funnel!)…

“Hardening”…I was surprised how fast it cooled!

It still has a little cooling to go, but basically the final product…

This was A LOT of fun and I am SO EXCITED to get to use our homemade salve!!! If this doesn’t sound of interest to you, you can check out some different recipes they have using coconut oil by clicking HERE.

This was a very interesting video about how they discovered and now continue to make this amazing coconut oil.

<a href=”http://rafl.es/enable-js”>You need javascript enabled to see this giveaway</a>.If you’d like to purchase some for yourself, you can visit Tropical Traditions HERE. The regular price for 32 oz is $40.00 but is currently on sale (as of the date of this posting) for only $29,50!!

Or…you can enter my giveaway for your chance to win some for FREE!!!  Enter below…

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Disclosure of Material Connection: Tropical Traditions provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose. Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product.

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