Oil Cleansing: A Natural Solution for Clearer Skin

The key to a flawless, glowing, dewy-looking skin, free of blackheads, pimples, cysts, and other imperfections seem to be a mystery. The very-fast growing skin care industry claims of clearing your skin of that excess oil which is the root of all your acne problems. But you stop using those products on your skin, the blemishes and pimples come back again only to plague you even worse this time around. Don’t know what to do anymore?

Why not use oil to remove excess oil from skin? A very popular technique called OCM.

Making Oil Blend As A Cleanser:

• Take generous amounts of the oil blend and massage on the face for 2-5 minutes.

• Let oil blend sit on the skin for a few minutes.

• In the meantime, take a wash cloth and soak it in hot water (make the water as hot as you can handle without burning your hands and skin). Wring the wash cloth properly and cover your face with it. Let your skin soak the warmth of the wash cloth and remove the wash cloth when it cools off. While removing the wash cloth, wipe your face with it.

• Wash the wash cloth in cold water and repeat the above step for 5-6 times. This will

• ensure that the oil is removed completely from the face.

• Do not use a face wash. Moisturize your face, if needed.

• Do this at night and not more than twice in a week.

Kind Of Oil Blend To Use:

What kind of oil blend should you use for the cleansing? Castor Oil is a main ingredient of oil cleansing. Castor Oil is the best oil to remove dirt and impurities from the skin as it has cleansing properties. But, castor oil should not be used as a stand-alone oil because it is very concentrated and it may harm the skin. So, dilute the castor oil with any other carrier oil which suits your skin. Almond Oil or Olive Oil isa popular choice.

The proportion in which the carrier oil and the castor oil are mixed is dependent on what suits the skin but in general the accepted proportion is 75% of your choice of carrier oil and 25% of castor oil. You can change the proportion to suit the needs of your skin. ‘Hit and Trial’ is necessary.

• If you skin is dry or mature, keep the castor proportion less than 30%. Castor oil is drying for the skin.

• If your skin is oily or combination, you can increase the ratio of castor oil up to 40% also depending upon the oiliness of the skin.

Some suggestions in creating your blend of deep cleansing oil:

Oily Skin:

Try a blend of 30% Castor Oil to 70% Sunflower Seed Oil.

Balanced Skin:

Try a blend of 20% Castor Oil to 80% Sunflower Seed Oil.

Dry Skin:

Try a blend of 10% Castor Oil to 90% Sunflower Seed Oil.

Why Oil Is Chosen As A Cleanser?

Like diamonds cut diamonds, the best way to clean your face even if you have oily skin is oil. The reason is that our skin surface is covered with lipids which are essentially oils. And, oil dissolves oil and all the dirt. One can use any oil as a stand-alone also to remove makeup in place of cleansing milk.

Almond oil is supposed to be a good eye makeup remover as well. And, Baby oil is used very popularly to remove makeup. You can find many cleansing oils coming in the market. Using oil doesn’t harm the skin and even the people with oily skin can use it without being bothered. In fact, using oil helps the oily skinby balancing the oil production on the skin surface.

The benefits of using oil includes the removal of blackheads and whiteheads, skin gets nourished when it is massaged with oil every night and becomes softer, glowing and more supple, firms up the skin too and nourishes the under eye area, plumps the skin and erases the fine lines gradually. An added advantage!  oil helps in nourishing and growing eye lashes.