Oil Cleansing Method - Week 2 Update!

Okay...so I'm very sad to have to write this...but my face took a serious turn for the WORST last week! I followed my regular routine last Thursday and Friday night and then when I woke up on Saturday, I had tons of painful red bumps under my mouth, on my chin and along my jawline.

I was afraid I had put too much lavender and/or geranium oils in my mixture so on Saturday night I used just the Castor Oil and Grapeseed Oil to wash. When I woke up Sunday morning, I had tons of whiteheads and I mean TONS! Like embarrassing amounts of little white bumps mostly on my chin and under my mouth but a few on my cheeks and I still had the painful red bumps under my mouth and on my jawline. AHHH!!!!!! As many years as I have been breaking out, my face has NEVER EVER looked like this.

So I went online and searched around to find out if anyone else was having this problem. The only thing I could find was that my skin was possibly "purging". Apparently this is when everything starts coming out of your skin and you break out at first and then it clears up later. I want so so bad to give up but I just can't do it. I truly believe in this natural process and I know it is helping because I can see where it has cleaned out my pores!! I won't give up just yet. See, I feel like I'm a special case since my face was SO unbelievably clogged and I think it's going to take a lot to get it cleared up.

I kept with the plain Castor and Grapeseed oil mixture and on Monday morning I still had massive amounts of white heads but some of the red bumps were clearing up. Tuesday morning...still more whiteheads...less red bumps.

Tuesday night I tried Castor Oil with Jojoba Oil instead of the Grapeseed. I am still getting tons of hard white balls coming out of my pores everytime I wash!! As bad as my skin looks right now, it still makes me feel good to know that I'm cleaning it out. Wednesday morning I had no whiteheads but still the red bumps. Not as many painful ones and my face looks like it's starting to clear up now. Whew!!! I don't know how much longer I could have gone in public looking like that! LOL I don't know that it's from the change in oil at all but I am going to stick with the Jojoba Oil for a while to see.



Thursday morning (this morning), I woke up to a few whiteheads but the red bumps are almost completely gone. The ones that I do have left have gotten smaller and are drying out. I used the Jojoba Oil again last night and I actually think I like it a lot better than the Grapeseed. It's not as heavy and doesn't seem to leave nearly as much residue. It gives me more friction while I'm rubbing and my face is never oily the next day!






I feel like maybe this purging thing will clear up after another week and then I will be clearer than ever!! I've got my fingers crossed anyway and of course I will keep y'all updated!! I feel like if I don't keep it up and see what happens later, not only will I never know what could have been...but neither will y'all!!

A couple of y'all have told me that you are doing the OCM now too and so far you all seem to love it! I'm so excited that it's working for everyone!! Has anyone else broken out from it?