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Using coconut oil

VastBreak
VastBreak Posts: 322 Member
edited January 4 in Health and Weight Loss
I have just purchased and started using coconut oil. Love it, it is wonderful! I always log the calories when I cook with it. However I also use it as a skin treatment, for serious dry patches. Should I log the calories that I use on my skin? It is being absorbed. That would seriously increase my calorie intake!

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  • melsinct
    melsinct Posts: 3,512 Member
    The oil being absorbed through your skin can't make it into your digestive tract. No worries! If that were the case, I would never be able to lose weight with the amount of creams and oils I slather on my dry skin in the winter!
  • AZKristi
    AZKristi Posts: 1,801 Member
    No, It isn't actually going through your skin.
  • Illona88
    Illona88 Posts: 903 Member
    Not sure if joking or not, but no.
    Otherwise we would all have to log our lotions as well.

    It never makes it into your stomach.
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