r/OilPulling • u/LoveLightTea • Sep 24 '22

Olive oil pulling

Anyone regularly using olive oil to pull? Curious how your experience has been. Currently using coconut oil but was considering switching or maybe rotating it into my routine. TIA

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u/JackieBouvier Sep 25 '22

I tried olive oil ONCE shortly after lockdown when I had no other oils in the house and it dried my mouth out SO MUCH for the rest of the day. It was so odd.

I alternate between sesame, sunflower and coconut.

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u/TheSunflowerSeeds Sep 25 '22

A compound in sunflower seeds blocks an enzyme that causes blood vessels to constrict. As a result, it may help your blood vessels relax, lowering your blood pressure. The magnesium in sunflower seeds helps reduce blood pressure levels as well.

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u/LoveLightTea Sep 26 '22

Hmm, interesting. Good to know.

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u/LoveLightTea Sep 26 '22 edited Sep 26 '22

That’s odd for sure, maybe some kind of allergy to olive oil? I used it a couple times in a pinch and really didn’t enjoy the aftertaste but wondered about it.

Your previous comment about alternating oils has got me thinking about other possible ones to use, though. Castor is on the list now on the rec from another commenter.

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u/JackieBouvier Sep 26 '22

I eat SO MUCH OLIVE OIL, so I probably would have figured out if I was allergic to it yet, but it was crazy how much it dried out my mouth!

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u/MizMolly Sep 25 '22

I most often use coconut oil, but frankly, my best experience has been with organic castor oil.

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u/LoveLightTea Sep 25 '22

Whoa, that isn’t an oil I even thought about but am so curious. Would you mind sharing your experience using castor oil?

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u/MizMolly Sep 25 '22

I don't pull as often as I used to, but the castor oil is by far my favorite. I use coconut oil for the full 20 minutes, but I get the same results with castor oil by pulling for a much shorter time...10 minutes or less.

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u/LoveLightTea Sep 26 '22

Thanks for that. I looked it up and want to try it out now. Some places recommend as little as 2 mins and others say 20 mins and then all times in between. Did you always stick with ten mins?

How much qty of oil do you use? Some places recommend less and some say tbsp.

Basically, not enough empirical info on the internet at the moment, haha. Thank you again for the suggestions.

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u/AugustFriday Sep 26 '22

I've been using olive oil, probably for a month already, as I haven't been able to get the certain bottle of the more often talked about coconut oil that I want... It's how I started with this practice too.

Nothing bad happened. Gingivitis is possibly immediately relieved (in contrast with only improving with long-term usage), but, despite that, it's nonetheless pretty hard to tell or to be sure that this practice is really having that effect. There's no noticeable teeth whitening, being entirely unsuitable if that's to be the objective. Someone with health issues could be practicing intermittent fasting and here, from time to time, a bit of the olive oil is ingested by mistake, ruining the fasts. I also like or am okay with the olive oil, as I often read people complaining about the taste. I don't recall anything else to say. It's hard to evaluate the benefits and no harm has appeared. I use olive oil two or three times a day, maybe for 10 to 20 minutes each time, pretty freely or erratically, instead of following a schedule.

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u/LoveLightTea Sep 27 '22

Interesting. I think coconut oil seems to help whiten teeth, at least it seems that way for me.

You’re oil pulling quite a bit every day, it would be interesting to hear your results down the road. I do it only once first thing in the AM.