What is your Oil Cleansing mix? Mine's boring and I want inspiration

[PrivateBenjamin]

So I have been trying the OCM for a couple of months (90% sweet almond and 10% castor) after buying the oils online. It does the job but it's not brilliant. My skin is just ok, no brilliant glowingness and doesn't smell of anything so I'd like to try more oils. I went into Holland and Barrett yesterday and was too scared to buy many oils in case they weren't recommended for the OCM and were more suited for cleaning windows with 1/100,000 parts water or fighting toe fungus.

I bought Sweet Orange and tried that this morning. It is nice but I think i'd get sick of smelling like a chocolate orange every day. My skin is a bit oily, I get hormonal spots on my chin and blackheads on my nose.

So, what do you recommend? Do you do different mixes every day depending on how you feel or do you mix a huge batch all at once?

I can't help I'm afraid but I'm marking my place in case someone comes along with some great ideas

I am just about to start OCM, so looking for some ideas of how to mix the right blend of oils.

I switch between almond oil, olive oil, and gorgeous clarins facial oil which smells divine,,

I'm yet to try the oils for cleansing as I am incredibly paranoid about my skin getting worse. I get awful spots on my cheeks (stress) and chin (hormones and plucking). I've heard great things about oil as cleanser but will it make skin worse? Private did the oil make spots better at all?

Hazelnut oil is really good for spot-prone skin.

This is about facial oils for moisturizing, but they work for cleansing too.

Foolish Go easy on the castor oil if you're just starting out - it made my oily skin quite dry at first until I cut back (i was using about 30% castor oil at first, a rookie error)

Everything do you just use the oil alone? I thought you had to use Castor Oil with them. But that's very gloopy so if I can go without that'd be good but then what would I do with this 90% full bottle?

Tally My spots definitely didn't get worse with the OCM. They sometimes flare up when I use a new product (most recently the Body Shop Vitamin E serum that I read about on here - Baaa) but the OCM has been really gentle. It might be curing them very slowly but it's not making them worse.

Thanks for that link Myrtle that is great information.

myrtle great link. Thanks so much

I use Lush UltrAbland. OCM ready made. Fab stuff.

You can definitely OCM without castor oil, I just use sunflower oil. You can use the castor oil on eyelashes to make them grow.

I like grape seed oil. I get the cooking one from Tesco, it's lighter than castor snd olive so no spots!

Thanks for the tip PrivateBenjamin - I'm looking forward to getting started! (Waiting for my oils to arrive.)

How do you cleanse with oil? The link says to cleanse before moisturising so how do you do that?

QuietNinja I think the link is for moisturising oils that you leave on your skin, it doesn't mention anything about washing off which is what I use them for.

To cleanse with oil I mix sweet almond and castor oil (or you can use any of the oils suggested upthread) in my hand, rub it into my face, really massaging it into my skin, then wash off with a muslin cloth and water as hot as I can stand. Then I repeat. The first cleanse will get all your make up off (even mascara) and the second one cleans all your pores (allegedly!). Sometimes I put the second lot of oil on my face and then repeatedly wet my muslin cloth in hot water and lie it over my face to steam it before wiping it off. I think that opens the pores up and it cleans them better, but this is just my theory.

I use coconut oil. I have very oily skin but this doesn't make it oily at all - I am meticulous about getting it all off which is important

I think I read your skin needs oil and so sometimes can produce too much because you're not giving it enough?! I could be wrong, but it made sense to me and OCM with the coconut oil has really improved my skin.

QuietNinja yes sorry, the link is for oil mixes to use as moisturiser, but you can also use it for OCM. I linked to it because it gives an idea of what oil to use for what skin type.

Thank you.

Which is a good website to buy from?

sauce I've bought from Amazon before, they have loads of sellers on there, or you can buy from Holland and Barrett online, they have a "buy one, the next one is 1p" deal on at the moment.

I use olive oil

Thanks Private - I've bought some sweet almond oil from amazon !

I use olive oil mixed with a little castor and some sweet almond oil. I never get spots on my cheeks now but still get hormonal ones on my chin. But my skin is the best it has ever been.

What ratios do you mix Claudette? And do you use extra virgin olive oil?

I found some Jojoba oil that i'd forgotten so I mixed that 1/3 jojoba with 2/3 sweet almond oil and a little blob of castor oil and have been using that. It's early days but my skin does look a lot more glowy.

Is it possible to do oil cleansing without using water, just wiping it off? I find that using water at all when cleansing is really drying on my skin.

didnt the romans do that with olive oil...slather it on then scrape it off?

Hi PrivateBenjamin I use around 2/3 olive oil, then the remaining 1/3 mostly sweet almond with a dash of castor. It's extra virgin olive oil but only cos that's what I have in for sloshing on my salads!

I also don't use a lot of water to wash it off either, and just use a hot flannel in the morning.

I straightened mine about a month ago (this was my third time) I've used Naked for fine hair this time and its not got sodium chloride in but my hair is nowhere near as straight as when I've done it in the past. ...actually its quite frizzy. Previously used Tresemme keratin smooth but they've changed the ingredients.