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Coconut Oil

Posted by Idrlindy on June 7, 2011 at 8:12am

My husband was searching the internet to find some natural treatments for his vit...and read about people using coconut oil.  Anyone on the forum use this??  Any positive results?

 

What about the antivitiligo oil??  Or I also saw a women on youtube and facebook who is doing an experiement with ginger root...

 

Would love to hear anyone's positive experience with natural methods!!  Thanks!!

 

p.s. he is on day 3 with protopic and is fine...no burning, reddness or discomfort so far :)

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  • Francis June 22, 2011 at 4:00am
    I just met someone that said she used coconut oil on her face and almost all of her vit is gone... She called it virgin coconut oil and said she bought it at walmart in the vitamin section.   I haven't made it there yet.
    • Gia > Francis September 6, 2012 at 8:16pm
      Have you actually used coconut oil as a conditioner? It is awful. Oily, even if I rinsed it out, my hair was stringy and dry. Oil is just not sufficient. Also, I was using coconut oil everyday as a skin lotion when I developed vitiligo. Can't say it does anything for prevention
    • jon hughes > Francis September 26, 2011 at 6:49am

      we have used nutiva organic coconut oil with ground chickpeas after reading a study out of india and it did seem to affect the depigmented  area. After extensive research i believe vitiligo is being caused by exposure to various toxins, mercury seems to be the one that triggered my son's vitiligo, It showed up shortly after having a dental filling put in.  We have been trying to detox for a little over a year and his vitiligo seems to be stable, not spreading, and even repigmenting slowly.Vitiligo has increased  at a similar rate as Autism which leads me to believe they are both being caused by similar mechanisms.  For the first couple of years we followed all doctors orders and prescriptions to only watch the vitiligo spread rapidly, treating the symptoms never addressing the root cause. The drugs they give us seem to feed the vitiligo, adding additional toxins to a toxic body. The spot your treating might clear up but additional spots will show up and grow even faster. In the 80's OSHA linked several chemicals to occupational vitiligo, which leads me to believe that is just what it is  ,  a symptom of some type of chemical exposure. So feeding vitiligo with these toxic drugs seems to be going backwards. We need to try to remove all the stored toxins within our bodies and give it the vitimans and minerals it needs to be able to restore itself.

       

      • caro > jon hughes September 26, 2011 at 8:30am

        Ground chickpeas ? cooked or raw ? also how do you keep the blend ? in the refrigerator ?

        Thanks !

        • jon hughes > caro September 26, 2011 at 8:57am

          We use Bob's Red Mill garbanzo bean (chick pea) flour and mix it up every night. coconut oil is liquid above 76 degrees , so we mix about a tea spoon of cocconut oil with enough flour to make a paste and apply that. coconut oil is anti-bacterial so it could be left out.  

           

          coconut oil is also a natural sunscreen,  conventional sunscreen has titanium or zinc oxide which are whiteners so we avoid those. We use equal parts coconut oil and baking soda for toothpaste, since conventional toothpaste has alot of nasty chemicals  as do most soaps, shampoos, etc.  so we make sure to only use those with lowest toxicity rating available through  http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/

           

          coconut oil is also a good conditioner.

          • caro > jon hughes September 28, 2011 at 8:30am

            Thanks on the info. I did a bit more research about it and it seems making a chickpea extract would be a more efficient way to go . It seems the "saponins" are the active part from the seed and can be made by soaking them on methanol and then heated to get the extract.

            I will be trying this experiment to see how it goes.

    • Karen > Francis June 25, 2011 at 1:19pm
      I went to walmart and the coconut oil  was in the vitamin section for $10.00. ..  it's exact label reads as follows: made with organic extra virgin coconut oil...do you know how she used it?
    • Kelly Ryan > Francis June 22, 2011 at 7:03am
      Really wow that is great! Do you know how long she used it for?
  • William M June 8, 2011 at 4:52am
    I am on day 3 also with using Protopic and I to have no burning, reddness or discomfort! I guess your husband and I started using at the same time will be interested to compare results with him.
    • Idrlindy > William M June 9, 2011 at 1:08pm

      Sure -- we can keep each other updated on the progress overtime :)

       

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