I hear you loud and clear! My solution to the "not dipping fingers in the jar thing" is this: I keep a small jar in the bathroom, dip into it for our fabulous face and body oil, and fill it when it goes empty with fresh coconut oil. This one is for my skin and I dip into it regularly. I keep a shot glass with coconut oil mixed with rosemary oil for my hair also. Dip Dip! The main jar is in the kitchen for ingestion and cooking use.

As a massage therapist, I have used coconut oil for 23 years without a problem......until recently when I introduced it to a spa where i work part time. All was well; all the therapists enjoyed using the oil when suddenly we started to detect a fishy smell. What i began to realize was that while stored in plastic bottles and thrown into a steamy towel warmer, the fishy smell was bad. If heated in a
microwave, no bad smell. So, my thinking is this: Plastic bottles are made of fossil fuels which of course are the fossils of dead creatures, much of which are fish. Steaming or having the oil in plastic or in a steamy room like near a shower, will certainly make the plastic bleed into the oil. Microwaving though not my favorite, is a dry heat thus not making the plastic sweat. I hope this is helpful.