I'd forgotten I'd posted this thread, but am glad it's resurfaced.

Thanks for all the replies. 

Sometimes I still go through phases where I feel a little tweak would do me a world of good.....but I do try to talk myself out of it knowing the downside of some procedures!

Yes, I've been using coconut oil on my skin too, but may I ask why does it dry the skin?  Isn't it a moisturising oil?  I've heard olive oil is better and so is jojoba and rosehip.  But why is coconut oil drying?  Just sounds weird, that's all.

Also ingesting flaxseed oil will help dry skin.  So that is one item I need to put on my grocery list.

Luv

Rita

My post on why coconut oil is possibly not the best option, depending on climate, humidity, skin...   Coconut oil - I just don't "get it"........

niqi, you gave up on the jojoba and went back to coconut oil? Can I ask why? Maybe you could answer that in the other thread, so your jojoba is great to I stopped the jojoba is all in one place?

As for peels, I'm all for enzyme peels they usually chew through the bonds of the dead skin cells on the surface so they fall off revealing the fresher skin underneath, rather than full on chemical peels that just chew through dead skin cells on the surface AND skin cells a bit further down that shouldn't be chewed off yet.  But in the hands of a good therapist, chemical peels can be OK, the skill is all in the timing, too long, too much is taken off.  Enzyme peels are much easier to use, though the results aren't quite as dramatic.

Yep - I'm a stubborn git and I am reading Elaine Hollingworth's book again; she swears by coconut oil, so I thought I'd experiment AGAIN and give it another try. It worked beautifully for a week (again) until I started to dry out (AGAIN). Some people never learn or like to experiment again and again just to make sure. A bit like tasting wine just to see if you get drunk or not.  !!!

So the merry-go-around. I stopped the coconut oil -- although I am still eating it --and went back to jojoba. Yes, jojoba is great. Yes, it is with great regret that I can't put coconut on my face. Yes, I am a silly git. Mea culpa!

I can't really give this a rational explanation. Coconut oil works for about a week on me and then I need to recover with jojoba. I think the experiment now will be how long I can work with jojoba before I get bored again! (My issue, not the delightful jojoba seed's!!!) 

But as we are speaking of experimentation, I will say that the jojoba oil does work well as a cleanser too. I have gone over your posts again Melb to see how you explained it before and have been trying that; rub it in, massage with water, wash off with face cloth. It does take a lot of dirt off.

So begging your pardon for being inconsistent!

hugs and shrugs, Niqi

My jojoba is not organic either.  It is "GMO free", and that's about as good as I could find.  I think it is by Natural Oil Workers, and I got it in a health food store in Bondi.

Most oils won't do much to the skin other than put a coating over it, the actual oil molecules are too big to be absorbed by the skin.  In skincare ranges, the bulk of the oil components are not the active ingredients. Essential oils can absorb through the skin, some other molecules in the oils may absorb into the skin (rosehip oil is a good example, the oily bit stays oily but other bits in the oil give rosehip its reputation as being good for the skin)  Jojoba is a wax not an oil, it is almost exactly the same composition as the skin's own sebum, it functions just like the sebum does, adding a fine protective layer over the skin to keep dirt and grime out and hydration in, and allowing the skin to breathe, other oils will put a thinker protective layer on and not allow the skin to breathe as freely, it all varies depending on the oil/wax used.

If you rub garlic on your feet, you will end up with garlic breath - the active components of the garlic are absorbed through the skin, rub coconut oil on your feet and you don't get coconut breath, molecule size affects absorption rate.

Fascinating! Just catching up on some reading here and I too have noticed a great improvement with my skin after increasing the amount of juices I have. It looks great and I am loving it!


True. I've done the garlic on the feet thing and had the garlic breath and I've used coconut oil all over before and never woken with an oily coconutty residue in my mouth...

The Japanese camellia sounds amazing.

xx

Ive bought the brand golden silk with vitamin e from an Australian website and its divine.

Speaking of camellia oil i ordered some last week from a US website that delivers direct from japan products. It got delivered now lol. I ordered it from website natural japanese beauty. I will use them and elt you know how i go. I also bought their wooden japansese comb. It combs the hair like a dream. Best comb ive ever used. Im so happy i found out about Japans secret. Japan is against gmo so rest assured their products are gmo free. I got 120ml bottle of camellia oil and camellia oil shampoo i cant wait to use. When i run out the the shampoo ill add a few drops of the pure oil to my own organic shampoos see how it is. Im also going to try the rice bran wash out and seaweed toning gel.

Their packaging is so adorable.

OOOps sorry about the double posting thought computer was stuffing up.