Oil Pulling

lostinrates

roshydoshy wrote: »

:rotfl: i've just switched back to manual brushing as found that the electric one made it worse - think i'm just a weirdo!!

I doubt its that weird, I gag when I brush my teeth, as does my dad, and his mother used to as well. I think there are a few of us.

emmahip

emmahip wrote: »

I have asthma and I'm going to give it a go! Will let you know what happens.

Day 1 - not as disgusting as I feared! Using sunflower oil and it barely has any taste, managed about 5 minutes then had to cough, will go for 10 tomorrow. Teeth did feel cleaner after brushing but that could just be wishful thinking.... Managed 10 minutes in the evening

Day 2 - managed about 6 minutes this morning, weirdly can seem to taste things a bit more already....will keep going for a couple of weeks at least. DH had a go this morning too and noticed teeth feel a bit cleaner.

suki1964

lostinrates wrote: »

I doubt its that weird, I gag when I brush my teeth, as does my dad, and his mother used to as well. I think there are a few of us.

I gag when cleaning my teeth as well. As for tongue cleaning - not a hope in hell. Only have to touch that and Im heaving.

Funnily I can just about use an electric brush. Took a while to get used to but I think the smaller head and less actual brush movement helps.

But oil pulling - I tried it back when this thread first appeared and I can asure you it made no improvement to anything other then make my gag reflex more powerful

emmahip

sara2323 wrote: »

I tried it this morning, really thought it was a joke when I read this post!

A quick search and there's lots of sites recommending it, so thought I'd give it a go especially as I've nothing to lose really. Have to say it was disgusting only managed about 15 mins and think I'll stick to the 15 mins for about 2 weeks...

What oil you using? I'm finding sunflower a lot less disgusting that I thought it would be