Cloud Nine Coconut Oil

Ideal Health Services is delighted to bring you the world of the Pacific – the world of Cloud Nine Coconut Oil.

The Cloud Nine family or products consists of a great range of edible and cosmetic oils and creams. Whether for cooking or simply for eating by the spoonful Cloud Nine serves up the best tasting and highest quality certified organic coconut oil available.

And if you don’t happen to like the taste of coconut oil, Cloud Nine provides a great cooking oil naturally purified of flavor and taste!

Cloud Nine Moisturizers and soaps add a whole new meaning to indulgent body care. Made from certified organic coconut oil, essential oils for fragrance and other natural products. 

Cloud Nine will provide you with a standard of health and luxury you may have only rarely experienced.

 

THE FRUIT OF PARADISE

Coconuts are the fruit of the coco palm. Coconuts come from one of the world’s most versatile trees. The leaves are used for making fans, baskets and thatch. The husk is great for mats, stuffing and rope. Coconut timber is highly regarded for its fine grain and high polish finish. The nutshells make great containers and the root can be chewed as a narcotic.

The edible parts of the coconut are well known for their great taste and nutritious benefits. The flesh can be eaten either ripe or unripe, raw or cooked and is a staple food in the tropics.

Coconut milk is drunk the world over. The sweet liquid from the flower buds is made into an alcoholic beverage called arrack and can be boiled down to produce palm sugar.

Coconut oil is extracted from the dried flesh. The traditional method of extracting the oil is pounding the dried coconut flesh with a mortar and pestle. 

Coconut trees can yield 200 nuts per year producing 18kg of oil, 34kg of coconut milk and 14kg of flour.

The world’s largest producer of coconuts is The Philippines with an estimated 324 million coconut trees under cultivation.

 

 

There is a widely held misconception that the saturated fat content in coconuts raises cholesterol and piles on the kilos.

Research has found that coconuts are quite the reverse. Saturated fats are now recognized as essential to health, with no automatic negative impact on bad cholesterol or retention of fat.

Saturated fats come from animal sources, as well as coconut and palm oils. Unsaturated fats come from other plant oils.

Most animal and plant fats are Long-Chain Fatty Acids. Fats from coconut oil however are Medium-Chain Fatty Acids (MCFAa)

MCFAs are more readily digested and utilized by the body for energy.

Coconut oil helps regulate insulin levels in the blood, increasing the sensitivity of the cells to insulin and speeding up metabolism (insulin resistance of the cells is one of the underlying causes of obesity and diabetes) This is great news for diabetics as well as those wishing to lose fat.  Other positive outcomes can include appetite suppression and burning of stored fat from within the cells.

Digestion of coconut oil places less of a burden on the liver, pancreas and digestive system. Coconut fats are known to have a soothing effect on the intestinal system. Great for sufferers of IBS or Crohn’s disease!

MCFAs in coconut oil have demonstrated a healthy action on thyroid function.

Coconut fats offer one of the lowest calorie counts of all fats, virtually no cholesterol, and no trans-fats common in commercially produced vegetable oils.

Coconut oil can help reduce “bad’ cholesterol (LDL), assist with weight loss, help increase energy levels, boost the body’s healing mechanisms and provide a great tasting alternative to highly processed hydrogenated vegetable oils.

 

 

COCONUT OIL AND THE SKIN

Coconut oil excels as a cosmetic lotion and assists the body to heal and repair itself.

Cosmetic creams and lotions based on refined vegetable oils are prone to oxidization, leaving behind free radicals to cause permanent damage to connective tissue.

Not so with coconut oil. It aids in removing dead skin cells, penetrates the deeper layers and underling tissue and provides protection against free-radical damage in the skin.

While coconut oil penetrates the cell structure of the skin helping to protect against damage from excessive exposure to the elements, it does not clog the pores.

Eating or applying coconut oil with its antioxidant properties may actually help protect skin tissue against the effects of sun exposure.

Coconut oil also has antifungal and antibacterial action. Consuming and applying coconut oil provides a atural defence against yeast related rashes and bacterial infections.

As the natural oils are washed out of the skin during bathing, applying coconut oil after a shower or bath helps boost the body’s defences to such infection. Coconut oil does not leave the skin greasy but soft and can help heal and soothe dry skin and inflammation.

Coconut oil also has great applications for the hair and scalp offering an effective protection against dandruff.