I’ve been exceptionally mindful of what I put in this belly since starting Conscious Coconut. I’m traveling and on the road all day and sometimes, I just forget to eat. I’m busy and as 2-3pm comes around – I crash, have a headache and get grumpy; as would be expected. It became quickly apparent that if I didn’t fix this asap I wouldn’t have the energy to grow this business the way I have...

At first, it was such a monster of a question when asked “why coconut oil?”. I would mumble, “well, it has these properties and it functionally acts like this and that, and you can use it in these 5000 ways blah, blah”. My response nowadays is, “what can you NOT use it for”. I don’t mean to be a sass, its just that over the last few years, it’s proving to be true.

I’m not really here to...

Get a little too much sun this weekend? So did I (and I wore my favorite floppy hat) Protecting the money maker is a personal priority of mine being born and raised in Florida. Hat, glasses, sunscreen, always. So you can imagine how interested I was to find out coconut oil has an estimated SPF of 4-6. I’ve seen some articles and blogs even stretch that up to an SPF 10.

According to Dr....