Simple and effective coconut oil tips to bring the luster back to your wood and leather furniture

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Simple and Effective Coconut Oil Tips to Bring the Luster Back to Your Wood and Leather Furniture 10

Coconut oil is the biggest fad nowadays. All thanks goes to its many versatile and healthy properties. Coconut oil serves a lot of functions and comes in handy during the most unexpected times. It is very useful oil that can help you in many ways. Talking about the uses of coconut oil, it can be used for culinary, industrial, commercial, as well as household uses. Besides this, coconut oil enhances your beauty by taking care of your skin and hair. It also helps in curing a lot of health and skin problems, like acne, insect bites, minor wounds, cold, arthritis, constipation, etc. As a result, you can see that this miracle oil serves as a solution to plenty of life’s problems, whether big or small. It may be lackluster hair, dry skin, athlete’s foot, or


digestive problems, this slick, tropical­smelling, smooth elixir will surely help to take you and your body back to healthy town. This stellar all­natural makeup oil’s main fat component is lauric acid. It is a medium chain fatty acid, which has a very positive impact on the cholesterol levels of the human body. Besides this, coconut oil also contains vitamins K and E, antimicrobial properties, iron, and antifungal properties. And, the best thing about coconut oil is that it is super affordable. A 14­ounce jar of coconut oil will cost you just $7, while making it the most cost effective all­in­one product yet. Really, coconut oil is a household cleaner, a beauty product, and lots more. Household Uses of Coconut Oil When it comes to the household uses of coconut oil, there are numerous ways through which this miracle oil can help you in your day­to­day life chores around your home. The various uses of coconut oil are not restricted to only personal care, hygiene, home and beauty remedies, but it extends far beyond these uses, with its many household applications. Coconut oil can replace all the other potentially toxic and more costly alternatives that you use for completing your household tasks. You can use it on your furniture, on your leather furniture, as a metal polish, on your house plants, for removing rust, for removing label residues, in your closets, for removing stuck gum, etc. Coconut Oil Tips for Your Wood and Leather Furniture In this article, we will learn how coconut oil can be used on your furniture, leather furniture, as well as other wooden items in your home. For this, you need to go through the following tips using coconut oil.


1. Use Coconut Oil on Your Furniture You can use coconut oil as a healthy alternative for the chemical­based furniture polish. Coconut oil will quickly sink into the wooden grain of your furniture and will keep it healthy looking for a longer period of time. It is a nice way to keep your furniture looking its best. 2. Use Coconut Oil on Your Leather Furniture You can use pure coconut oil on your leather furniture. Pure coconut oil works as a cream for your leather furniture. For this, first you need to remove the dust and then you have to rub a small amount of coconut oil onto your leather furniture. This will buff your leather furniture and provide a nice shine to it, in addition to moisturizing and softening it. 3. Revive Wood Paint Old pieces of wooden furniture usually lose most of their color. And, when you look at your old wooden furniture, you feel like painting it again. Now, you can do this easily with the help of coconut oil. For this, you just need a small quantity of coconut oil. Dab this oil on the old wooden piece and rub it in circular motions into the wood. By doing this, you will notice that how the deep color of the furniture returns back. Moreover, the oil will also add a protective layer to the wood. 4. Make Patent Leather Shine Patent leather is made to be sleek and shiny. So, if you see your patent leather lacking its gloss, you can wipe some coconut oil onto the surface of your patent leather and see how its high­shine finish returns back. Coconut oil will polish your old couch and give it a new life, when you rub it over its cracks.


5. Condition Your Wooden Furniture In order to keep your wooden furniture in its best shape, it is important that you must treat, clean, and condition its wood and that too in place of the regular furniture polish. For this, you just need a small quantity of coconut oil. Generously apply coconut oil and allow it to seep into your wooden furniture. Be sure that you test it on a small area first, before applying it on your wooden furniture. 6. Condition Your Wooden Flatware Now, you can keep your wooden cutting boards, wooden spoons, wooden surfaces and any of your other wooden utensils in their best shape with the help of coconut oil. Just clean, condition, and sanitize them with coconut oil, when they start looking dry. Make sure that you test it on a small area first. 7. Fix and Lubricate the Squeaky Hinges of Your Furniture Do the squeaky hinges of your furniture annoy you? Then, it’s time to fix the sticky mechanisms and squeaky hinges of your furniture by lubricating them with some coconut oil, which is a more natural solution rather than the WD40. This will silence the squeak and, in turn, make hinges easier and smoother to use. Not only is coconut oil beneficial for your furniture hinges, but it also comes in handy for your scissor hinges, door hinges, or window hinges. 8. Treat and Care for Your Leather Products Now, you can revive your leather products and make them shine with the help of coconut oil. Whether it is your leather coat, your sweet leather pants, your leather shoes, or any other kind of worn leather apparel or product, you can bring new life to them by rubbing some coconut oil on them, and thus cleaning, conditioning, and restoring their lost sheen.


9. Use it on Your Dry Furniture Revive your dried furniture by rubbing some coconut oil on it. Make your dry wood furniture happy again. The creamy oil also helps to fill up the scratches in your favorite wooden furniture and make them look new again. 10. Polish up Your Wooden Furniture Instead of buying a furniture polish from the store, you can consider adding a small amount of lemon juice to a little bit of liquid coconut oil. Rub this solution onto your wooden furniture and see how its shine quickly restores. Just like your wooden kitchen goods, give a few seconds to the oil, so that it seeps in nicely into your wooden furniture, before you wipe off the extra oil. Moreover, you can apply this solution on any kind of wood. Although, it will not give a super­glossy finish to your wooden furniture, but it will definitely provide the wood a natural, healthy look. These simple and effective coconut oil tips will surely help you to bring the luster back to your wood and leather furniture.


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