What oil do you use for the "oil cleansing method"? (merged)

HH62

I got some castor oil today in the first chemist I tried - the Cooperative. I have a feeling these may be only here up North though?
I'm just catching up on the thread to try to calculate what percentage castor to EVO I'm going to use.

Bargain_Rzl

I got my castor oil yesterday, also the first place I asked (the independent chemist on Borough High Street near London Bridge station). Cost me £2.29 but that's central London for you.

Hoping to try the OCM for the first time this evening

Sazbo

My castor oil arrived from ebay yesterday - gonna start OCM this weekend I reckon, really looking forward to it:)

Sazzy x

l0u_l0u

got my castor oil from Boots today.. the chappy on the till didn't think they had it but the lady informed him that it was in the drawer behind the counter, they don't have it on display because of pregnant women taking it to start off their labour as I was informed! Was only £1.33 though!

HH62

Right, well I decided to use sweet almond oil instead of my extra virgin olive oil, and mixed it 1tsp of castor oil and 4 of sweet almond oil. My skin looked and felt baby soft afterwards. Will update as I go along.

JenC

I may bin my olive oil mix and try sweet almond instead. Much nicer smelling!

MrsE_2

JenC wrote: »

I may bin my olive oil mix and try sweet almond instead. Much nicer smelling!

I might try that next time.

I like a high ratio of castor oil.

mouthscradle

My castor oil arrived this morning Ordered from chemist.net in the end as I still couldn't find ANY locally, it was 95p for 100ml and 2.95 for delivery by DHL, I ordered 5 bottles to make it worth paying the postage

Also went and bought some EVOO this morning so will compare that and sunflower oil and see which I prefer, going to try it for the first time tonight Not looking forward to the many spots it's inevitably going to bring out, I can see a million blocked pores just waiting to turn red lol, but hoping that stage won't last more than a week, I can live with that.

Sazbo

Well, I had my very first go this evening!:) And have to say I was pleasantly surprised - I was expecting it to be a bit of a faff, but it wasn't at all. Tried 20% castor and 80% organic e/v rapeseed oil (coz that's what I have lol). Skin felt slightly taut afterwards, so applied a dab of oil to my face as per instructions.

So far so good. Will be back to update and thanks everyone or another great MSE thread!:) :T

Sazzy xxxx

thatsfabulous

Hi been reading through the thread, thanks to you all for you personal comments. I decided to give it a try!
I managed to get Castor oil today from Lloyds £1.38- Boots, holland & barrett didnt have any.
I also got grapeseed oil to mix with.

Two questions if someone could answer them please.
How long do you do it for? 20mins?
also do you remover any makeup before hand?

thanks!