UPDATE: Justbought a jar for my neighbor’s new pup with excema. This pup’s coat look a lot healthier after 1 St application & lik my dog, loves the taste…no digestive problems if the lick or even eat it!Surprising how nice this “semi-hard butter like” oil is. I’m still evaluating after 2 weeks but seems my Aussie’s foot & nail biting is much less. He has been on Apoquel (serious anti-inflammatory K9 only med) which works on the itch but not completely. After started scraping this butter on a tongue blade then my finger, I applied it inside in-between his paws/pads & inner thighs where he’s had skin inflammation from a likely grass allergy. Since we used this coconut butter he’s definitely not scratching as horribly as he did just a week before. It does seem to be this coconut butter that’s helping. I’ve also used it on the OUTER EARS–not into the inner part of his outer ear….just around the ear flap. I’m using other Vet prescribed medicated ear wash & meds deep in his ears 1 time/week. This butter IS SAFE FOR DOGS TO INGEST. In fact, he love licking a bit from my finger. I’d suggest though, using a tongue blade to scrape off the coconut butter from the jar, THEN putting on clean fingers for application to various parts of body. My dog’s got major allergies & I don’t want to cross contaminate the jar contents between different body part applications. Besides his feet/pad ear flaps & inner thighs where the skins so inflamed, my vet said its okay to put it around his inflamed itchy anus–OF COURSE when I do this I take just the amount needed on a clean tongue blade then apply it. I never put my fingers into jar without washing my hands before each application site.Overall it does seem to relieve inflamed areas’ that are terribly itching. It smells very nice with a hint of coconut. I may order a jar for myself as after I have it on my hands & fingers, they are smooth even waterproof! Good stuff.