Greetings dear friends of Steem women club community. I am so excited writing my Diary post here and I hope you enjoy it and have a few lessons to learn.

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How have you been and how is your day going, I trust all is working out fine for you all. Today I'll be sharing with us how I made my cold press (virgin) coconut oil.

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Okay, my day started by 5AM after morning devotion with my family. I engaged myself in some household chores like washing our used plates, sweeping and cleaning. After the clean ups, I fixed breakfast of tea and bread and after eating I pleaded with my sister-in-law to assist me pluck some coconuts from the coconut tree in our compound. Well, I know it's really gonna be tasky, but I'm gonna face it 'cause I have long wanted to make coconut milk and oil for my skin and hair. ## Benefits of Coconut milk and oil • Coconut milk serves as hair detangler when applied to a tangled hair. • It also softens and shines hair. • Coconut milk helps to make the immune system strong when added to food and eaten • Coconut milk is good for weight loss • Both Coconut milk and oil nourishes and moisturises the hair and skin • Coconut milk and oil fights against skin and scalp dryness, thereby giving skin a radiant look. • They also fight against skin wrinkles that could lead to aging. •They serve as exfoliators Coconut oil are carrier oil and can be used for all purposes. ## Steps involved in extracting Coconut milk and oil.

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So I went with my sister-in-law to pluck a few coconut from the tree and we got 5 pieces.

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• The first thing I did was to remove the outter part of the coconut with a Cutlass. It was quite tidious, but I had to do it. My sister-in-law also gave her assistance, because I couldn't peel it off all by myself.

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She assisted for a while and went to the nearby market to buy some food stuffs. When she came back, she went inside to prepare dinner and I was left alone to finish the rest.

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While I was removing the outer part of the coconut, the cutlass had a cut on me and I was injured.

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• After peeling off the outer part, I broke the hard part, poured the coconut water into cups and refrigerated it (we drank it when chilled). • I removed the fleshy part of the coconut from the hard shell and diced it into smaller units for easy blending.

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• After that, I set up my blender, added a little water into it and poured the diced coconut into it and allowed it to blend.

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*have you tasted coconut paste before? Oh! The taste is out of this world 😊*

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• After blending, I placed my neat white sieve on a sizeable bowl and with spoon, I began to scoop some amount of the coconut paste into the sieve and after which, I squeezed it properly till all the liquid was out leaving behind the chaff. I continued until I was done with the paste. • I turned all the coconut juice into a steel pot, tightly covered it and I left it for 12hours under room temperature.

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After this period of time, it fermented and the coconut oil separated from water.

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So I placed it in the refrigerator and I'm gonna leave it there for another 8 hours (this is the 4th hour) and after that, I will bring it out and separate the frozen oil from the water and allow it to melt under room temperature. This is how I extract my virgin coconut oil. I don't cook the oil on fire or apply any sort of heat. And the virgin coconut oil works better than the heated one. I hope you enjoyed your ready? Now tell me, considering the stress involved in extracting the virgin coconut oil, if I sell it at 6 STEEM per 200ml container, will it be worth it? Please leave your comments/ contributions at the comment section of this post. Thank you so much for reading.

Special regards @steemwomensclub @stephenkendal @svm038 @ngoenyi