Castor Oil Cure for Acne

**thin4good** · December 9th, 2008, 05:23 AM

OK, between all of the stresses I've been dealing with for a few months, I was experiencing acne I had never seen before. It was so bad the president of my company pulled me into a meeting to understand what was going on with me. Because it was clear I was under a lot of stress between the dark circles and the awful acne.

Anyway, you would be shocked at work finally cleaned it up! Facials didn't help, and acne medicine kept drying out my skin, then moisturizes would make the break outs worse.

Through some online research I read about Castor Oil. Now normally I would never try to wash my skin with castor oil. But my skin was so bad, I figured it couldn't make it worse. No joke guys, in less than a week almost all of my inflammation was gone.

Castor Oil has anti inflammatory properties. It also is a very heavy oil that can sink into pores and adheres to existing oil and dirt pulling it out of the pores! It's important to use Cold Pressed Castor Oil as it's more pure. Taking a hot washcloth and laying it on the skin to open the pores then using cold pressed castor oil and massaging it into the pores for about 2-3 minutes, then using a hot wash cloth to wipe away the oil. i also added some kosher salt to the oil in the beginning so that it would 'scrub" the dead skin I had lingering on my face.

I couldn't believe how refreshed my skin looked in almost no time at all. I would then use a toner and moisturizer, etc as I normally would. I'm curious to see if you ladies have the same success. now that my skin is clean I use it probably once or twice a week.

Best of luck!

**paola25** · December 9th, 2008, 05:28 AM

Thats interesting...I shall try. I have been breaking out like crazy too!!

But you dont think that if you have big pores, the oil will clog the pores instead of cleaning out the gunk in it?

Also, I have never ever in my life had a facial...I would like to try one...what kind should i do? I have heard microdermibrasion for all the scaring i have due to old acne...I also use BareMinerals, and even though its help clear my skin from pimples it has caused me to have sooo many blackheads...

**thin4good** · December 9th, 2008, 05:31 AM

most oils would cause more issues, but castor oil has anti inflammatory properties. It also has cleansing propeerties, just make sure you use a hot wash cloth to scrub your face clean when you're done. It seriously didn't make me break out ever. I even used it on my body and didn't have break outs.

**paola25** · December 9th, 2008, 05:37 AM

I will try...It wont hurt me to try..worst case scenerio I brake out even more, than I shall just use more makeup to cover up the damage.

thanks for the advice.

**Vixena99** · December 9th, 2008, 08:05 AM

Another "At home" facial remedy that works good for me.....
Clean your face and then....
beat up one or 2 egg whites until they are really frothy, then put it on your face for a tightening mask. you will feel it tighten as it dries, then wash it off and it will feel super smooth.

**want to be happy** · December 9th, 2008, 05:16 PM

Ok, This sounds really funny...I never get facial acne but around my TOM I always breakout on my Butt-Cheeks. I will have to try your remedy and see if it works the same. I have been using just acne wash and it seems to work.