My hairdresser actually recommended using hot castor oil as a hot oil treatment on my hair as it was very dry and damaged. It's meant to prevent split ends and breakage. It's also good to use on children as a moisturiser or hair conditioner cos there's no chemicals in it. She said it can also be used to thicken hair up and for hair loss. You are supposed to apply it directly to the scalp and roots of your hair, massage it in and then wrap your hair in a towel, leave it overnight and wash it out the next day.
When I told my beauty therapist friend I was using the OCM method with olive oil and castor oil she told me to massage the castor oil into my eyelashes - it makes them thicker and longer and to massage the olive oil into any areas where i removed body hair cos it's a hair growth inhibitor.
You learn something new everyday!!
I have been using a mixture of almond, sunflower, avocado and rapeseed oils. I tried olive oil but I found it too drying and I found jojoba irritated my spots.
However I am a bit worried about this comment I found posted on a different forum:
"would like to say that castor oil in conj with olive and jojoba for 3 months def caused a lot of extra white facial hair on both my sister and my face while we were doing OCM. It is on my cheeks, chin and lip. I also had a lot more eyebrow growth - like brooke shields in the 80s!!!!!! basically i have a layer of white fur over my face, and a few that look like whiskers- more spiky. Very notceable side on.
we still have hideous cystic acne from the ocm, mine are at the infected boils stage now 3 months on. I am spending a fortune on acne prods and will vist my doctor for antibiotics tomorrow morning. they are so deep and infected that a greenish pus (not even yellow!) comes out of them. We also have rash like white clogs all over us - like a beard. looks great with the extra hair!!! I am in a lot of pain with them. most of them are under my jaw along my neck and at the sides of my chin. I probably have about 11 either big red/purple blind ones at the moment that are all swollen and about 5 with the yellow green pus heads and 5 that are further along and started to scab. I am a mess.
we did nothing else but ocm differently- we are also 10 years different in age so it can't be the same change in hormones!!!!!
that is our ten cents worth! see our "ocm ruined my skin" thread for more info. the hair came a bit later but it is really noticeable and my sister has started removing it. I am a 31 year old blue eyed blonde who has never had excess hair issues before! and she is 21 and fair too!
beware ocm- i wish i had not been swayed by all the hype, it is retrospectively the worst thing i have ever done in the name of beauty.
we are sad every day as we just want things back the way they were."