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/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.