I bought a couple of tins of coconut oil once to make soap. My coconut buddy (the one who does the crumpets in CO in the pan) also bought a tin, used it like she did the Niulife brand, and said it tasted absolutely terrible. They nitrogenised it, rather than hydrogenise like the solid copra-derived RBD (refined, bleached and deodorised) stuff (which in Australia at least now also contains lecithin to hide the soapy taste when it gets old.) I could never find out how safe or bad or whatever the nitrogen would be, but I would have expected good coconut oil to stay good in a tin without adding anything "for freshness". I still haven't made that soap, either, though I must get on to it - the last batch I made from a Hulda Clark recipe is just about gone. For that one, I used a mix of lard and coconut oil, and also added Epsom salts (by mistake) and, I think, Borax (as well as caustic soda, of course). It was great, but after a year or so something must have made the salts precipitate or something, and the little hard crystals became discernable. Even so, a friend swore by it as being the only soap that didn't affect his skin negatively.
Rowena i learned on the CO group means the vit E is added as a stabilizer/preservative (which shouldn't be needed) or
