Tropical Traditions
America’s source for coconut oil!
Gold
Label® Virgin Coconut Oil
- Our Purest Unrefined Coconut Oil!
How We Discovered this Unique Oil
When I first read about the wonderful benefits of coconut oil, I asked my wife
Marianita, who grew up on a coconut plantation in the Philippines, if there was a more
natural way to extract the oil from the coconut, so that we didn’t have to buy the
refined coconut oils found in all the stores in the Philippines. She said there was
a method the older generation used to extract the oil by grating the fresh coconut,
extracting the coconut milk, and then letting the coconut milk stand in a covered
container for about 24 hours. After about 24 hours, the oil naturally separates from the water
producing a crystal clear oil that retains the full scent and taste of coconuts. So we
started making our coconut oil that way and using it for our cooking needs with our
three children. We couldn’t believe how wonderful it tasted, and how great we felt. We
had been living on Mt. Banahaw in the Philippines for almost two years by that time, and in the year 2000
telephone service was provided to our rural farming community, allowing me to put up a
website about our Philippine Herbs. I decided to also put our Virgin Coconut Oil up on the
website, not really expecting people to order it because it was a bit expensive since we
had to hire people to make the oil, and shipping cost a lot because of the weight. We
were so surprised when people started ordering, and then re-ordering it because they
felt so great after using it! They told us there was no other coconut oil like it on the
market. (See a sample of
testimonies below.)
Before long we had businesses contacting us asking how to order it in
bulk. So we discussed
how we could mass produce this kind of oil, and almost abandoned the
product because we didn’t
want to lose the traditional way of making it. In the end, we decided to
just keep making it
the same way, by having others in our coconut community also make the
oil the traditional way.
Many of our producers are in areas so remote, that if they did not use
their coconuts to
produce Virgin Coconut oil for us, no one would buy their coconuts
because it would cost too
much to transport them to manufacturing plants. In these areas, the
coconuts generally just fell
to the ground unused until we started training people to make our Virgin
Coconut Oil. We were the first ones to export Virgin Coconut Oil from
the Philippines to the US market. The success overwhelmed us.
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