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Dental hygiene hasn’t always been a thorough brushing and flossing twice per day. In fact, the toothpaste and toothbrush as we know it wasn’t standard in the average American household until the early 1900s. We know what you’re thinking: “What did my great-great-great-grandpa use to polish his choppers?” and “How did our ancestors keep funky breath at bay?” In addition to their diets (which contained far less sugar than ours today), dental health was maintained simply by using chewing sticks and oil pulling. Pulling What? Oil pulling is a detoxification process that takes place when one swishes plant-based oil in...

MK Organico here, and boy am I ready to make you healthy! My journey began two years ago deep in the jungles of Sri Lanka, where I was just a pesticide-free, all-natural coconut chilling in my palm tree. Yet, I knew I had a larger calling... It was then I was handpicked and selectively chosen to be crafted into extra virgin MK Virgin Coconut Oil. I was placed through the cold-pressed machine where I was uniquely cold pressed to ensure all my life-giving vitamins, minerals, and antibiotic qualities remained 100% pure and ready for your enjoyment. With my light fragrance, colorless, and incredibly smooth...

The whole coconut, as well as extracted coconut oil has been a mainstay in the food supply in many countries in Asia throughout the centuries. Recently, though, there has been some replacement of coconut oil by other seed oils. This is unfortunate since the benefits gained from consuming an adequate amount of coconut oil are being lost.One of the key components found in virgin coconut oil is lauric acid. Coconut oil has special fats called medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA) and almost 50% of those are 12-carbon lauric acid components. Coconut oil is one of few natural substances that contains lauric...

People frequently say, "there is no difference in coconut oils" but they couldn't be further from the truth. Pure, high-quality oils are rare and easy to replace with faked or impure products. Make sure you always have the real deal! Become A "CocoPro" It is nearly impossible to know what is in coconut oil by reading the jar. Almost all virgin coconut oils claim to be cold-pressed, raw, pure, etc… but these “buzzwords” have no industry standard for measurement or certification.... They are for marketing purposes, plain and simple. If these terms don’t mean anything, how are consumers supposed to know which coconut oil is...