00:00I'm Lucy Fink and this is Five Days with One Jar of Coconut Oil.
00:05Um, I guess it's delicious?
00:10Coconut oil. The trendiest trend.
00:13A super food. Everyone's talking about it.
00:16And everyone's using it. Except for, it seems, this girl.
00:21I am not a big cocoa girl.
00:23But this week I'm on a mission to see how this one jar of coconut oil
00:26can positively enhance my life in five short days.
00:33I'm not entirely sure what to do with this.
00:36The jar says the possibilities are endless.
00:39So we're gonna have to figure this one out together, guys.
00:42At home, in the bathroom, the only thing I know about is oil pulling.
00:47Here we go.
00:48Oil pulling is an ancient dental technique that involves swishing a tablespoon of oil in your mouth
00:53on an empty stomach for about 20 minutes.
00:56The oil almost acts as a cleanser and pulls out all of these toxins
01:00before they have a chance to spread to the rest of your body.
01:02Some of the benefits of oil pulling include whitening your teeth, increasing energy,
01:07reducing headaches, clearing up the skin, and promoting positive oral hygiene.
01:12Definitely a positive Monday night experience.
01:15Here goes nothing.
01:18Would not recommend.
01:20Day two.
01:21Decided that today I want to get a little bit more formal.
01:24So I have with me Maria Del Russo, the beauty editor at Refinery29, hoping that she can give me some
01:29tips
01:29on how I can use this coconut oil in my beauty routine for the rest of the week.
01:33Maria, any help?
01:34When I tell you how many times I've written about coconut oil, I think I'm like the shaman of coconut
01:38oil.
01:39I feel like I know everything about it.
01:40I use coconut for like a million things.
01:42I use it as lip balm, as a makeup remover, I use it as a conditioner, cuticle oil, body oil,
01:49shaving cream.
01:51Shaving cream.
01:52Like I think I'm just going to dunk my first born into this.
01:54You know what I mean?
01:55Because it could basically be used for anything.
01:58I stand by what I said.
02:00I'm going to dunk my first born into a vat of coconut oil.
02:04I have a tried and true recipe for no-bake, oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate, coconut bars.
02:09I spoke to a nutritionist last night who told me that coconut oil can replace butter in virtually any recipe.
02:15So I chose my favorite recipe.
02:17I'm going to add my peanut butter, honey.
02:20I'm using this coconut oil in a one-to-one ratio as I would use the butter.
02:24I'm going to turn off my heat and add in the rest of the ingredients.
02:27My oats, some dried cranberries, shredded coconut, teaspoon of vanilla extract, and last but not least, fittersweet chocolate.
02:37Don't let how this looks throw you off.
02:39It's going to be amazing.
02:40And now I'm going to grease the pan with the coconut oil.
02:44I'm going to pour it right in.
02:49Time to refrigerate.
02:54Oh, wow.
02:55You make me feel such magical things.
03:02Yeah, coconut oil makes me wanna sing.
03:08So far this week I used the coconut oil for oil pulling to enhance my beauty routine and I even
03:14cooked with it yesterday.
03:15But, mind, body, and soul.
03:18How can this help me relax my mind?
03:21This week I have four shoots, two pre-production meetings, three stop-motion videos to film, meeting upon meeting upon
03:29meeting upon meeting.
03:32So many meetings.
03:34Remember when I did five days of meditation?
03:36I'm going to take my meditation learnings and I'm going to sit on my floor.
03:39I'm going to put the coconut oil on my temples, on my wrists, and I'm just going to sit and
03:44inhale deeply and hope that this acts as almost aromatherapy and relaxes me.
03:53Well, that was short-lived relaxation.
03:59It's so offensive.
04:04Even though I was a bit of a coconut oil skeptic at the beginning of this week, I truly feel
04:08like I have become one with the jar.
04:10I love him.
04:12Her.
04:12The thing that was perhaps the most beneficial to my life was learning how many different ways that I can
04:17use this to enhance my beauty routine.
04:19Sometimes when I go to put on makeup remover, I almost feel like I'm destroying my face.
04:23And now knowing that I have this coconut oil as a backup option, something that's gentle, something that's natural, and
04:29I can even eat it, I didn't know if the hype was real.
04:32But let me tell you, it's worth it.
04:34Give it to me, I'm worth it.
04:36I've used this for so many healthy things this week, but it's Friday.
04:40And on Friday, we drink coconut oil and banana smoothie.
04:46And rum.
