Virgin Coconut Oil

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เฉลิมยศ อุทยารัตน์

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Virgin coconut oil is produced by cold process of coconut milk with no heat or any other chemicals. Homemade virgin coconut oil can be easily produced by fermenting coconut milk with boiled water (1:1 by volume) for 24 hours and yields to 15-20% by volume of coconut milk. Virgin coconut oil is generally used in cooking or take directly for health benefits and applied to skin or hair for beauty care. Some applications of virgin coconut oil, such as solid and liquid soap, body lotion, lip balm, can be produced easily at home. The leftover cream of the fermentation process can be produced as body scrub cream.

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