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Aside from cooking and eating, check out five interesting daily uses of coconut

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Coconut is well known for its versatility. You can eat it raw, use it to make coconut rice, coconut oil, coconut candy, and many other useful things. 

However, there are more creative and interesting daily uses of coconut that you should know about. Some of these uses often encourage environmental sustainability and eco-friendliness.

1. Natural sponge

Maybe our forefathers devised this use of coconut husks to clean surfaces or bathe. Well, while that’s true, today, you can use the husks as a natural sponge, as opposed to buying synthetic ones. This encourages eco-friendliness. 

2. Handmade items and accessories

Instead of disposing of coconut shells, another daily use of coconut is that it can be used in making household items such as bowls, plates, or accessories such as necklaces, earrings, bracelets,s and so on. The beautiful side of it is that you can get as creative as you like, and it reduces waste in the environment.

3. Charcoal

You can make charcoal from different organic materials such as animal bones, wood, bamboo, or coconut shells. The ones made from these shells often burn in an eco-friendly manner. Therefore, some of the daily uses of coconut are for cooking, water purification, and producing beauty products.

Read Also: 10 health benefits of Coconut Water

4. Natural body and hair scrub

If you’re struggling to find the right product for your skin and hair, you can make a scrub using coconut oil, sugar, and grated coconut. It’ll do a good job of moisturizing your skin and hair and making them feel alive. 

5. Brooms and decorations

If you still use brooms in your home, you can employ the use of DIYs to create them from the stem of coconut leaves. You can tie them together. Another daily use of coconut is the creation of aesthetically pleasing items to decorate your space. It could be a doormat, a wall mat, etc. 

Above all, the daily uses of coconut are not limited to these. However, these points only prove that coconut is truly versatile. 

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