Olive Oil

I have acne prone skin, and used this as a replacement to my usual moisturizer for a few weeks. My goodness, I noticed little bumps and whiteheads forming at first, then all of a sudden my face exploded with acne like I haven't seen since my teen years. Olive oil may work great if you have normal skin and not prone to breakouts, but for me it really clogged up my face and made things so much worse. I guess the oil was too suffocating, trapping dead skin cells and feeding the acne bacteria in my face. Anyway, stay clear of this stuff unless you have naturally normal acting skin.

During the winter my skin gets so dry and flaky that I can peel it off, and it just makes make up look disgusting. I decided to try applying olive oil to my face once a week, and it did wonders! I mixed it with sugar to exfoliate and remove the dry skin, and it made my skin so soft, smooth, and healthy looking. I apply it with my fingers, let it set for 5-15 minutes, and rinse it off in the shower. I follow with my normal facial cleanser and the acne.org regimen. I do this once a week, and my skin looks better than ever! Also, this did not cause me to break out at all, but it also didn't help my acne. It's simply a moisturizer. I've had bad experiences with jojoba oil, and even though this is much thicker and doesn't absorb much into skin, it made my skin softer and didn't have any bad consequences. I definitely recommend this!

Unfortunately, this didn't work for me :( I saw this person on yahoo answers who recommended that people massage extra virgin olive oil vigorously (I used cold pressed) to our faces in up & down motions, claiming it will give you perfect skin. I tried it for like 2 days, the second day I started getting tiny little red bumps, rash like. My mom told me to quit doing that, but I thought it was nothing since it was only a tiny bit and that it would go away if I kept going. Boy do I regret that. The next day after I did it again at night, my whole face was covered in a rash. With tiny whiteheads all over! I know most people believe that olive oil is not comedogenic, but if you have sensitive skin or normal (because I thought mine wasn't sensitive!) you might want to go slow (even if you're using it as a moisturizer) because there is nothing worst than an ugly rash. I still have it as I write this, and lucky me, I have an awards ceremony tomorrow ! Oh well, if this happens to you try Aloe Vera because it helps some. Good luck to you all, keep searching and God will grant you the wish of perfect skin, or something close to it ;)

I have been using ORGANIC Extra Virgin* Olive Oil for a week now and have experienced a noticeable difference already. I mix it with organic honey and use it as a face mask for 30 minutes every night. It takes inflammation right out of my pimples and I haven't had a crazy breakout since I've been using it (knock on wood). It also has been helping with the redness in my face as well. I am not giving it 5 stars quite yet because I want to give it at least 2 weeks to a month to really see what it can do for my face.

I used fake extra virgin olive oil because this stuff is not regulated and I broke out. Before I was using the pure stuff and my cysts were shrinking and going away. It was magical. I had a big inflamed cyst that just disappeared overnight with the pure stuff. DO YOUR RESEARCH! Do not buy from the frauds. I use California Ranch Olive Oil now. It is cold pressed and comes in a glass bottle. It has been tested and is the real thing. Luckily I did not apply the fake stuff for very long but it still did damage. I have continued to use the real thing and it has healed up the damage from the fake stuff. No more cysts. I was about to go on accutane too so I am very thankful this worked for me.

When I was 12-13 I would try to kill my acne with tea tree oil. Lo and behold, when you are 12 and have no idea what moderation is, you completely kill your skin lol. My whole face was completely red, flaky, and sore. It had completely shattered my confidence. After a good 6-8 months of trying 100 different moisturizers, remedies, and the like, I convinced my mom to take me to a dermatologist for it - but I had to get a reference from my GP. He basically facepalmed at me and told me to sleep with a fair amount of olive oil on my face every night for 2 months, and if I didn't see results from that he would refer me to a derm. Within 4 weeks the redness was fading, and by the end of my 2 month term my skin tone was completely back to normal, albeit if I wore make-up you could still see that my skin was a bit flaky. I'm 19 now and still fight with my dry skin (moisturize, moisturize, moisturize!), and a couple times a month I sleep with olive oil on my face and have no trouble with redness!

I used this years years ago when my acne wasn't this bad. I had light acne and my problem was dry and red skin because i washed my face too much and didn't use lotions or creams. I put olive oil on my face like a lotion and massage it mostly on my cheeks (driest area) I had the few pimples on my forehead back then. I can't say the olive oil dries them up, because they don't. The olive oil moisturize the skin, so even with a few pimples, my skin looked soft and glowing..I think this remedy is for light or very light acne and not for the serious 10-30 spots on your face. if you have severe acne, i think olive oil can make it worse. Last week, i had really bad acne and i tried the olive oil again. it did absolutely nothing but aggravate my pimples more. it made it worse. once my acne has calmed down and diminish, i'd use olive oil again for bringing back moisture and to even my skin tone. (Its good when mixed with lemon juice) **don't use on severe acne***

Watch out with EVOO, great for consuming, not so great on the skin. I tried the OCM (oil cleansing method) with olive oil, and broke out it thousands of tiny infected pimples which took MONTHs to resolve. Because of this, I threw myself in a terrible viscious circle of irritating my skin with topicals to resolve the acne, which in turn caused more acne, etc... Watch out with olive oil or the oil cleansing method. It is NOT for everyone. You've been warned.

I was told to use EVOO (extra virgin olive oil) and I'm glad I did. I love it. It's inexpensive and moisturizes great. The trick is to use a little. Less is more. I was also told to use this as a cleanser...I did and won't do that again. It didn't make me break out more (which surprised me), it just works better as a moisturizer. In the morning my skin looks healthier. I definitely use this at night. Yeah, don't use this during the day!

My skin had been under control in comparison but it was a little too dry and oily. I wanted to oil cleanse, I massaged some olive oil into my face and washed it off immediately. The next day my face looked like my face when it first hit puberty. Diy isn't always the answer. Buy a real oil cleanser.