All the Animals, They Like the Coconut

“All the animals, they like the coconut.”

My friend Andy says this to me as I recline on a wooden bench at his café on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. I am waiting for my coconut curry rice and lobster. Andy caught the succulent shellfish earlier in the day using coconut for bait.

Coconut grows everywhere here. An important food source, easily accessible and highly valued, it is used in just about everything. Local guys use long poles to break the huge nuts free from the trees. The outer shells are hacked open with machetes and the sweet milk inside is either downed on the spot or poured into two liter bottles for later use. The meat inside is scooped out and grated. This grated coconut is then squeezed into warm water, turning it milky white. Next, rice is tossed in and cooked in coconut luxury until it’s simmered to perfection.

My food arrives. Fresh veggies, quickly sautéed in coconut oil, are piled high on a bed of sweet coconut rice and my lobster (also slathered in coconut oil) is well…heavenly.

We cook with coconut oil at home every day here in the tropics. We use it as a base in many of our organic body lotions, and we add it to bamboo and lemongrass infused vinegar to make an amazing, skin loving, healing body wash. We use it in our sunscreen, condition our hair with it, and even bathe our two little adopted street dogs with it.

Oh…and Charlie, our adopted pup, he loves it!                                                                                                                                               

There are so many ways to use coconut oil at home. It’s a perfect ingredient for homemade toothpaste, homemade soap, or homemade deodorant. We carry a generous variety of coconut oils here at Wild Rainforest Organics. It comes in 12 different single plant infusions including noni leaf, guanabana leaf, banana blossom, ginger lily, and bamboo to name a few. You can also buy our completely natural, wild organic coconut oil infused with several combinations of wild rainforest plants--each one designed to give you something special--like our cell rejuvenating Fountain of Youth combo or our tranquility promoting Relaxing Remedy.

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After all, we are all in this crazy world together.

The Wild Rainforest Organics Family