Got "artificial" coconut oil

[raweater]

I had bought 2 gallons of raw virgin organic coconut oil last year and am running out now (I sold some to friends several times also). At the grocery store they had this tiny $2.50 bottle of cononut oil, it didn't say virgin or anything so I thought it would be the cheap chemically made coconut oil but thought for $2.50 it's worth a try. I got home and smelled it and yup, it's smells like a toxic chemical factory made it (the cheap coconut oils like this are extracted using toxic chemicals which remain in the oil).

Should I just throw it out or maybe put 1 tsp of it in my smoothies or something? I thought it would only be tasteless, but it's not, you can smell and taste the extraction chemicals in it.

[beckx]

if it tastes toxic... why would you eat it?

[raweater]

if it tastes toxic... why would you eat it?

Not to waste it... but yea, it would be stupid. I guess down the drain it goes.

[MrsJohnnyG]

I would say "use it as skin lotion" but if there are toxins in it, I wouldn't want to slather it all over my skin either. Maybe use it as hair conditioner!! (just keep it away from your scalp!)

(Random question: raweater, how are you still a "seed" with over 700 posts, but beckx is a "sprout" with 223 posts? No need to answer that, just wondering aloud!)

[juliebove]

I wouldn't eat it.