Clean Your Face With Oil

Agatha June left a comment to the post about baking soda and water instead of shampoo- she said we might be interested in something called 'the oil cleansing' method of skin care.

You can read about it here

Basically, you massage a mixture of castor oil and a carrier oil into your skin, hold a hot wet wash cloth over your face to steam it a bit, and then wipe face clean. That's about it.

I discovered the cleansing properties of oil accidentally when the FYG was confined to the couch for a few weeks while four severed tendons in two toes healed after surgery- she had a cast on and wasn't even supposed to move around on crutches.

I gave her sponge baths, but she has dry skin and we not were having as much success as I would have liked, until one evening when I rubbed some oil on her skin, using a damp cloth, in order to help with the dryness. Her skin was cleaner than it had been since she cut her foot jumping up and down in the bathtub and landed on a sibling's razor.

Since then, whenever the boy has a particular dirty neck from his excavating his earthworks (I tried to find the picture we posted of his holes to China, but I gave up), I oil it down and wipe it off with a warm damp cloth before his bath, and then oil and wipe again afterwards. He's ten, and ought to be able to do this himself, but so far as I can tell, those stories about boys not washing behind their ears? They are all true.

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