Oil Cleansing Method

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Originally Posted by zombi

I tried OCM using 30% castor to 70% jojoba -- for about one month. At first the whole goodness happened, with the plugs coming out of the pores and whatnot, and it was awesome

But then I suddenly started to get cystic-like spots on my cheeks, where I have never had trouble before. It did not and has not gone away since. I discontinued use of OCM and went back to the wash I was using before, but my skin is still REALLY clogged and unhappy.

Did I do something wrong?

Sounds like your skin was purging. Dont' worry, mine did that in the first month of me doing OCM too. It freaked me out and I stopped for a month. I got back into it, but the next time I changed the oils. I found the EVOO was to heavy for my already combo/oily skintype. Now, I use 80/20 castor and evco and my skin loves it!

[olivertwist]

Hi,I am also new to the ocm and have had 6 years of misery with my skin as i have break outs and also get sebherric eczema at times on my face. Nothing to date yet has helped only made my spots worse or irritated my skin leaving it a mess! I have used the ocm once befor usng castor oil and almond oil which was a faliure and irritated my skin to hell, but after some reaserch for a little over a week now have just been using evoo and well i dont want to speak to soon but am starting to see an improvment slowly.What i want to know is how long should this method take to start seeing the results as at the moment i am still getting odd breakouts here and there?? Is this normal after using the just over a week??Hope someone can advise me