Working good so far. I have only missed 2 days. My teeth are about a shade whiter and gums looking redder. As far as it helping with vaping, It really helps refresh the mouth and tongue and if you have been vaping heavy it seems to reboot your taste buds. Once you've done it for a week it is no problem. Just don't spit it in drain as it can cause clogs. I usually start just before taking shower. By the time shower is over and dressed my 20 min is up!
I would like to know where do you spit the coconut oil when you are done if you cannot put it down the drain? A trash can?
I actually got a infected hair follicle which caused a boil or what some people call a Rison, and I was on a skincare board on makeupalley where I go a lot, and I sent a private message to a very knowledgeable person on there about how I should treat that because I had never had that before.
They mentioned that I should get ichthammol and use it, and keep it covered with a Band-Aid or bandage.. to keep the infection from spreading.. because a staph infection in the hair follicle /pore is what causes a boil, and a staph infection on the skin, or like in a boil.. can sometimes turn into a strain of Staph called MRSA-(people lose legs over that and can go septic), so you want to make sure to clean the area and your hands often with over 60% rubbing alcohol, (and not use a lot of the common antibacterial hand sanitizers, because staph & mrsa is immune to the main ingredient in a lot of them).
I Googled the directions for ichthammol and it is just like oil pulling, the ichthammol is a black antibacterial goop..and smells like tar or kerosene.. and is something that has been used for a very long time, sometimes called Black pulling salve.
That boil was really hurting and it was swollen with blood and infection inside I'm sure, and after using the black pulling salve keeping it covered over the little bump on my skin that was so sore, after only two days of taking good care of the area, the infection started to come out of the sore, even though it had not opened.
(If any of you have used a pimple patch, it works just like that- it pulls the infection through the wall of the skin, and the infection is attracted to the pimple patch- or the black pulling salve- ichthammol.)
This is a great home treatment.. especially if you have children or anyone, who gets splinters of metal or wood, or even I heard a story on the CVS website under their version of ichthammol when I read the reviews, where people said that if you have a splinter, to cover it with the black pulling salve, and put a Band-Aid over it, and in a couple of days, the Splinter will come right out by itself.. with no pain- and no children crying.
One woman said she had cystic acne and had had a cyst removed 11 years ago and it came back, with scar tissue over it. She used ichthammol on that cyst in her neck for 10 days straight, and she said on the 10th day that the cyst came out by itself, which I have never heard of before.
So ichthammol is great for basically removing anything in the skin that is not supposed to be there-like boils, splinters, infected hairs, ingrown hairs , and possibly cysts.
I hope this is helpful for somebody, because it's kind of embarrassing for me.. LOL.