Coconut Oil #SummerCelebration {Giveaway}
0Guess what? It’s officially the first day of summer! Yay for longer days, breezy nights, fun in the sun, BBQs, and ice-cold anything! Not only that, but it’s also Summer Celebration Giveaway Hop time! I’m all smiles today (if you can’t tell) because this post is loaded with all kinds of goodies:
- This is my very first review and giveaway, and the first time I’m joining a giveaway hop (Summer Celebration Giveaway Hop).
- I’m reviewing one of my favorite “green” products ever – virgin coconut oil from Tropical Traditions! Click here for the full review!
- One of our lucky (blessed) fans will win their very own quart of Tropical Traditions Gold Label coconut oil! Entry form (Rafflecopter) is at the end of this post!
- And finally, I’m sharing my 10 favorite ways to use this wonderful oil throughout the summer – click here for the list!
Summer Celebration Giveaway Hop!

Welcome to the Summer Celebration Giveaway Hop, hosted by Happy Mothering and Organic Mama through the Green Moms Network! As part of this fabulous event, a group of bloggers is each offering an eco-friendly giveaway worth $25 or more on their blogs!
After you finish entering my giveaway, be sure to visit the other participating blogs, which are listed below the Rafflecopter form. Good luck everyone!
Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil Giveaway
If you know me at all, you know that I L-O-V-E coconut oil! We use it for pretty much everything and it’s seriously one of my favorite products! To read a full review of this amazing oil, please click here. If you already know all you need to know about Tropical Traditions Gold Label virgin coconut oil, and you just want to get on with the giveaway, just scroll to the bottom of this post. But before you do that, check out some of the following info about this amazing product:
Win 1 quart of Gold Label
Virgin Coconut Oil!
Tropical Traditions is America’s source for coconut oil. Their Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil is hand crafted in small batches by family producers, and it is the highest quality coconut oil they offer. You can read more about how virgin coconut oil is different from other coconut oils on their website: What is Virgin Coconut Oil?
You can also watch the video they produced about Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil:
Tropical Traditions also carries other varieties of affordable high quality coconut oil. Visit their website to check on current sales, to learn about the many uses of coconut oil, and to read about all the advantages of buying coconut oil online.
Since the FDA does not want us to discuss the health benefits of coconut oil on a page where it is being sold or given away, here is the best website to read about the health benefits of coconut oil.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Thank you so much to Tropical Traditions for allowing me to do a review and giveaway of their amazing product! This is a Blog Hop! Be sure to check out these other fine blogs which are hosting their own giveaways as well!
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Disclaimer: Tropical Traditions provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose. Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product. Also, if you order by clicking on any of my links and have never ordered from Tropical Traditions in the past, you will receive a free book on Virgin Coconut Oil, and I will receive a discount coupon for referring you.
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I find it very good for frying and making vegan mascarpone. It is a very versatile product!
Help!!! I can’t figure out how to enter the giveaway. I really would like to join, I love this stuff…..
Hi Joyce, I’m so sorry you’re having troubles. On the form, it should ask you how you want to login to the giveaway: with Facebook OR your email. Once you choose which one, just click on the “+10 Do It!” and click on “Enter”. Then leave a comment to answer the question in the box. You can either stop there, or keep clicking on the entry options to gain more entries!
I would love a chance to try the coconut oil. I have read a lot about the good benifits of using it . Love your blog.
I love to use coconut oil in cooking, baking (making some banana muffins now with it) and for homemade HBA products.
I would love the chance to win this coconut oil. Thanks for this great giveaway !
We use it for cooking and for moisturizing my 5 1/2 year old’s sensitive skin. Along with cutting back on refined sugar, eliminating toxic skin care items and using all natural cleaning solutions around the house, the coconut oil has been a life saver for my little one. Could not live without it!
I use it in muffins. It’s a healthier choice than just regular oil.
I use coconut oil in cupcake recipes, stir fry, light frying, desserts, and in my cast iron skillet as it has to stay “oiled up”!
We love coconut oil in our home. For frying, in smoothies, marinade. Love love love.
I use it in everything! In smoothies with frozen raspberries…it’s so good because the CO gets like little hard crispy bits, which sounds gross, but it’s not, lol. I use the refined for frying, I love love love it as lotion. It makes the best moisturizer ever. I even put it in my coffee! It’s great for any recipe that calls for fat, too. So good for you! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
so far I have only used it in my Chinese cooking
I use it as a hair treatment and for a skin treatment. I am ready to begin cooking with it.
deodorant, toothpaste, diaper cream and of course cooking
I have never used it, but I’d love to try it in baking!
I use it as a cloth diaper cream.
WE use it in our home for cooking, and lately I have been finding great things to make for our bodies using Coconut Oil! We are big fans of it! :0) Thanks for the opportunity to win!!! Whoot Whoot!
I use the butter flavored coconut oil pkgs for my popcorn machine. I’ve always wanted to try coconut oils in other ways and just never got around to it yet.
I LOVE coconut oil and use it in all of my meals.
for moisturizing my skin
I’d use it in cupcakes and on popcorn!!
I’ve been wanting to try it for vegan baking, and I’ve also heard it’s a great hair conditioner.
I bake with it, use it as our oil to stirfry and also put a little in smoothies to make it frothy!
I use it on my hair as a scalp conditioner and mositurizer
I love to make popcorn with it!
I’ve not used it yet, but look forward to trying it.
I would like to try baking with it.
I love coconut oil. My 5yo hates to put lotion on after a shower, but she LOVES to slather coconut oil all over herself.
We love coconut oil! It’s our go to oil for almost every type of cooking!
I’ve never used coconut oil before. I’ve heard there are a lot of uses and I’m excited to try them.
We like to use it on dry skin.
I use coconut oil for hot oil treatment. for bathscrubs and oven sweet potato fries and for stirfries
I like to use coconut oil as a facial cleanser and moisturizer.
Cooking, skin care, hair care, diaper rash, etc!
My hair
Air popped popcorn with melted coconut oil poured over is our favorite snack!
I want to use it for cooking! Hear it’s great for smoothies! And a million other things!
Thank you for this giveaway!
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I put it in my coffee.
I want to try making body scrub
I use it for everything! Even on my little one.
I use it for cooking (It’s AWESOME for making melted chocolate more smooth and gives it a nice shine in chocolate dipped treats!) and also as a moisturizer. I’ll also be trying it for use with cloth diapers in homemade diaper cream
I would use it on my skin
I love to use coconut oil for lotion bars and cooking
We used it most when our baby had cradle cap. Cleared right up! Now we use it occasionally for diaper rash but more frequently for cooking. It’s great in asian food.
I use it to fry and bake with!
i would use it for my baking cookies/cakes
We use coconut oil for cooking wherever vegetable oil is called for.
Just a quick question, is entry open to everyone or only to U.S.? Doesnt really matter cos you have a great site any way! Thankyou x
It’s open to both Canada and the US. And thanks for the kind words!
you’re welcome
but I cant enter cos I am allllllll the way down under! Thank you for sharing all your info, I made your almond milk the other day and almond meal- couldnt believe how easy it was… going to look at making oat milk now- thats just yum but super expensive to buy, so considering i can buy rolled oats very cheap I will have a go at making it myself
oh bummer! Well, I’m glad you liked the almond milk, and oat milk sounds delish!
i would use it in lots of ways including on my babys bottom
I think that I would like to use it for baking
id like to try it on the grill
I like putting coconut oil in my morning protein shake
I use coconut oil for everything from a flyaway smoother for my hair to baking, frying, and adding to smoothies! Love this stuff, and Tropical Traditions is the best!
I use it for cooking and hair and skin care. Love it!
I use coconut oil in cooking & baking
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I use it for my regular cooking and baking and I just made deodorant with it.
We love to use it to pop popcorn.
I would use it as a facial moisturizer and for baking – emscout9 at Hotmail dot com
i would use it for my curls
Baking w the kids – they love coconut so that shouldn’t be a problem.
one of my fave ways to use coconut oil is adding some to my pancake mix omg its delish!
i love making coconut chicken with this!
I use it for everything! Love it in my coffee.
I use coconut oil in my homemade shampoo, I rub it in my skin and I give it to my dogs. They love it! I haven’t yet used it for frying or baking but that’s soon to be changed!
We use coconut oil in place of vegetable oil in all our cooking! It’s especially yummy to cook eggs in.
I use coconut oil to cook with, I also use it in my deodorant and for skin care.
I want to make popcorn and granola.
I would love to try it to make ketchup.
I would use it as part of a facial cleanser.
I use it as a face oil!
I’d make a ton of stuff with mine! I use it to make practically all my baked goods AND it works great in DIY deodorant and toothpaste! Thank you for doing this giveaway!
I use coconut oil for EVERYTHING! In my hair, as a lip scrub and face mask and of course in cooking – I use it for stir frying and for baking! Ooh and as a homemade Magic Shell ice cream topping
I usaed it on my stomach to prevent stretch marks when I was pregnant
I love to cook with coconut oil.
wanna try popcorn…with maple syrup and cocnut oil on top. i saw this recipe and haven’t been able to forget it so i’ll have to make it.
For cooking, and for moisturizing my hair!
My favorite way to use coconut oil is in skincare products such as cold process soaps and body butters, body melts!
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id love to try it out in some baking. like maybe in muffins? im really curious how it will make a difference in the taste or if it will even make a difference!
I use it on my skin, hair, and for cooking
I would use for cooking.
I am just now learning to cook with coconut oil and am trying to learn more about it!
I use it for diaper rash and on my nipples.
I would use it on my hair, skin and cook with it.
Diaper cream
We use it topically and it cooking and making raw chocolate!
In the past, I’ve used it in my cooking but also as a lip balm.
Yay! Indeed, this is a cool summer giveaway! I love coconut oil. Been using it to treat my dry hair or flaky skin especially during summer. Although I’m using a different brand, I still would like to try this one. As long as I can get the same coconut oil benefits, I’d still try it. Though I hope I’ll get the chance to try.
I would use coconut oil for my hair and moisturizing creams for my face and hand, and in somewhat limited culinary applications
coconut oil goes in our smoothies every morning!
For cooking
we use it for everything…especially in the bedroom.
for cooking
I would like to try Coconut Oil for Stir Frying & Sauteeing. :0)
I have heard about the health benefits of coconut oil and am excited to try some.
We use it for cooking and for a heavy duty moisturizer on the kids’ eczema.
we use coconut oil on everything!! its like a miracle in a jar!
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We use it in my son’s food and on his body.
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I have tried it in making cookies and I use it in making homemade soap.