DIY Oil Pulling Recipe with Cloves

This DIY oil pulling recipe with cloves is another way to mix up your oil pulling routine. If you like the oil pulling recipe with cinnamon, you will probably also really like this DIY oil pulling recipe with cloves. It too has an intense spicy and slightly sweet aroma that is perfect for some of the DIY teeth recipes. In fact, it is a popular ingredient for some mouthwash brands as well. If the idea of oil pulling is completely new to you, you might enjoy starting with – what is oil pulling for teeth?

Ingredients

The two active ingredients used in this DIY oil pulling recipe are coconut oil and clove essential oil.

1. Coconut Oil

Coconut oil has so many beneficial properties for our general health and well-being. So, there is no surprise that is also very beneficial for this DIY oil pulling recipe with cloves. Coconut oil is a (1) deeply penetrating, (2) antimicrobial, that (3) increases blood flow. Being able to go beyond just the surface of the mouth, coconut oil provides a really deep cleaning for your oral cavity. As a broad-spectrum antimicrobial it not only destroys bacteria, but it can also destroy viruses like cold sores and yeast cells like candida. Regarding its ability to increase blood flow, our blood is the body’s transport system. It is constantly distributing beneficial nutrients throughout the body while picking up old byproducts (trash) that the body naturally creates. So, with coconut oil having the ability to increase blood flow in the mouth, it accelerates nutrient drop off and trash pick-up by means of the increased blood flow to the mouth. In this way, it can help improve or maintain the health of your teeth and gums.

This DIY oil pulling recipe can be prepared with refined coconut oil or unrefined (virgin or extra virgin) coconut oil. Refined coconut oil is easy to mix with essential oils because it does not smell or taste like coconut oil. Unrefined coconut oil smells and tastes just like coconut. So, if you enjoy the taste and smell of coconut, it is definitely an excellent choice as well.

2. Clove Essential Oil

Clove essential oil can help fight infections in the mouth, teeth, and gums. While destroying odor causing bacteria, it freshens breath with its intense spicy flavor and aroma. This wonderfully aromatic spice is also included in the re-mineralizing tooth powder in its powdered form. Clove essential oil is not only a powerful antibacterial, but also a pain reliever. According to research, some dentists use this clove oil to disinfect root canals and alleviate pain in the affected area. In this way, it is being used to fight or prevent infections in the mouth. Keep in mind that like cinnamon, clove essential oil is naturally quite spicy.

DIY Oil Pulling Recipe:

• 4 tbsp. Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
• 1/2 tsp. Clove Bud Essential Oil (Food Grade)
• Rubber Mini Muffin Mold

Instructions:

1. Place the coconut oil in a microwave safe dish.
2. Then soften the coconut oil as needed.
3. Now you can mix the needed amount of coconut oil with the clove essential oil.
4. Stir the mixture together and then pour the DIY oil pulling recipe into a small mold.
5. Place the mold in the refrigerator to let the oil pulling melts harden.
6. Once hardened, you can unmold the oil pulling melts to use immediately.
7. The extra melts should be stored in a container in the refrigerator.

How To Use:

1. Before eating or drinking anything in the morning, place one of the DIY oil pulling melts in your mouth.
2. The oil will melt easily, but you can chew the melt to help the process along.
3. Once melted, gently push and pull the clove flavored oil back and forth through your teeth. You can do this for up to 20 minutes.
4. When finished, please do not swallow! Spit the well-used oil into the trash can.

Conclusion

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DIY Oil Pulling Recipe With Cinnamon

The DIY Oil Pulling Recipe with cinnamon is one of my favorites. Cinnamon is a popular mouthwash flavor even among traditional mouthwash brands. This is because it has a naturally great flavor and active ingredients that promotes healthy teeth and gums.

What Is Oil Pulling

With that said however, a DIY oil pulling recipe is much more effective and beneficial than traditional alcohol based mouthwash. Instead of drying out your mouth promoting bacteria formation with an alcohol based mouthwash, this DIY oil pulling recipe literally moisturize the mouth superficially and promote good blood flow to the teeth, gums, mouth, and face.

Ingredients

This DIY oil pulling recipe is prepare with coconut oil and cinnamon essential oil. I’ll highlight why these two ingredients are excellent for using in your daily oral care routine.

1. Coconut Oil

I have to control myself when it comes to bragging about coconut oil and how amazing this natural wonder truly is! So, to be concise and specific to the oral care benefits that coconut oil provides I’ll start by saying that it is a potent antimicrobial that stimulates blood flow.

Microbes includes bacteria, viruses, and yeasts (fungi). So, as an antibacterial this DIY oil pulling recipe can get rid of bad breath germs that can also lead to cavity formation. As an antiviral, it can keep cold sores from forming around the mouth and/or greatly reduce the recovery time. And lastly, if you suffer with a yeast overgrowth like candida, this DIY oil pulling recipe can help you get rid of your white tongue along with a good low carb diet.

Our blood is a transport system. It carries all the nutrients the body needs to heal and repair itself. So with this DIY oil pulling recipe causing an increase in blood flow, there is an increase in nutrients being dropped off to your teeth and gums. And it will carry away any microbes that are picked up. And the coconut oil will also help trap some of the dead microbes for you to spit out afterwards.

You can use a natural coconut flavored organic virgin coconut oil to keep the coconut flavor or use a flavorless organic refined coconut oil to not have the coconut flavor in this DIY oil pulling recipe.

2. Cinnamon Essential Oil

Cinnamon smells wonderful, taste wonderful, and can accomplish wonderful things. Before salt started being used to preserve meat, cinnamon powder was used to keep the meat fresh and free of bacteria growth. So, cinnamon is a potent all natural antibacterial! It is no wondering why it is a popular choice for many oral care products. So, this DIY oil pulling recipe with cinnamon is prepared with a cinnamon essential oil to make sure the properties of the cinnamon can enter between the crevices of your teeth for maximum oil pulling and nourishing benefits. Cinnamon is a spicy oil, therefore a little bit can go a long way.

When starting to oil pull, it can really be like a mini detox. So, I like to follow up oil pulling with an antioxidant rich vitamin C powder afterwards to help with the detoxification process.

DIY OIL PULLING RECIPE WITH CINNAMON

• 4 tbsp. Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
• 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon Essential Oil (Food Grade)
• Rubber Mini Muffin Mold

Instructions:

1. Soften the coconut oil of your choice as needed.
2. Then mix the oil with the cinnamon essential oil.
3. Now stir and pour the DIY oil pulling recipe into your small rubber mold.
4. Place the mold in the refrigerator to let them harden for about 20 minutes.
5. Afterwards, you can unmold the oil pulling melts to store and use what is needed.
6. The extra tablets should be stored in a jar in the refrigerator to avoid melting.

How To Use:

1. Before eating or drinking anything, place one of the DIY oil pulling melts in your mouth to chew.
2. Then, gently push and pull the softened oil back and forth through your teeth for up to 20 minutes.
3. When finished, please do not swallow! Spit the oil in the trash can.

Conclusion

I hope you have also enjoyed this DIY mouth recipe. You know where to find more DIY teeth cleaner ideas. You may also like the DIY oil pulling recipe with rosemary or the DIY oil pulling recipe with peppermint. That is all there is to making this DIY oil pulling recipe.

DIY Oil Pulling Recipe With Rosemary

This DIY oil pulling recipe with rosemary provides many oral care health benefits. It is prepared with only two highly effective natural ingredients. In fact, one ingredient is my absolute favorite ingredient to work with because of all its amazing beneficial properties. And, the second ingredient is quickly working its way up my list as well. So, let’s talk about this DIY oil pulling recipe with rosemary oil!

Ingredients

This DIY oil pulling recipe is prepared with coconut oil and rosemary essential oil. Both have amazing properties that can not only strengthen and whiten your teeth, they can help heal cavities in teeth and eliminate gum infections.

1. Coconut Oil

Coconut oil is a potent broad spectrum antimicrobial. As an antibacterial, it can eliminate cavity causing bacteria in the mouth. Being an antiviral, it can reduce the occurrence of cold sores. And lastly, being antifungal, it can help to eliminate a white tongue caused by excess yeast in the body. In addition, it naturally increase blood flow to the teeth, gums, and face. And as a result, the blood can deliver needed nutrients more effectively resulting in stronger teeth and gums. On a more superficial level, coconut oil is also a natural teeth whitener. So, the coconut oil in this DIY oil pulling recipe provides many benefits.

A natural coconut flavored organic virgin coconut oil or a flavorless organic refined coconut oil can be used to prepare this may this DIY oil pulling recipe.

2. Rosemary Essential Oil

Rosemary essential oil is a very fragrant essential oil. It is a naturally potent antimicrobial with potent antioxidant properties as well. With its fragrant aroma, your mouth will feel really fresh after using this DIY oil pulling recipe with rosemary. And as an antimicrobial, it too can destroy cavity causing bacteria. In conjunction with the coconut oil, the antioxidant properties of rosemary essential oil can help enhance the complexion of your face.

DIY Oil Pulling Recipe:

• 4 tbsp. Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
• 1/2 tsp. Rosemary Essential Oil (Food Grade)
• Rubber Mini Muffin Mold

Instructions:

1. Soften the unrefined or refined coconut oil as needed.
2. Then mix the rosemary essential oil with the coconut oil.
3. After stirring, pour the DIY oil pulling recipe with rosemary into a small mold.
4. Place the mold in the refrigerator to let them solidify for about 20 minutes.
5. Then, you can unmold the oil pulling melts to use.
6. Store the extra melts in a container in the refrigerator.

How To Use:

1. Before eating or drinking, chew one of the DIY oil pulling melts.
2. Once melted, gently push and pull the oil through your teeth for up to 20 minutes.
3. When finished, do not swallow! Spit the oil in the trash can.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoy using this DIY mouth recipe. You may also like the DIY oil pulling recipe with peppermint. You know where to find more all natural DIY teeth cleaner recipes. That is all there is to making this DIY oil pulling recipe.

DIY Oil Pulling Recipe With Peppermint

This DIY oil pulling recipe with peppermint is a wonderful oil pulling recipe in many ways! Prepared with two powerful natural ingredients, they both naturally do their jobs really well. If you are new to oil pulling, you may really enjoy the benefits of this DIY oil pulling recipe with peppermint. Besides having whiter teeth, there are a variety of benefits that come from oil pulling.

Ingredients

The two ingredients used to make this DIY oil pulling recipe are coconut oil and peppermint essential oil. These two simple ingredients have wonderful properties that make them an ideal choice for this teeth and gum cleaning recipe.

1. Coconut Oil

Coconut oil is naturally antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral. Therefore, it can keep all the microbes in your mouth (bad breath germs) and around your mouth (cold sores) under control. Being antibacterial, oil pulling can help to rid the mouth of bacteria that leads to bad breath and cavities. And as a antifungal, it can keep things like thrush under control in individuals that suffer from a candida yeast overgrowth. And then too, as an antiviral, it can help prevent cold sores. This is just the start of what this DIY oil pulling recipe can do.

The coconut oil is a highly penetrating oil with anti-inflammatory properties. Since it penetrates the skin easily, it can perform its work at a deep level. For example, it can dilate the blood vessels in your teeth and gums to better carry out its antimicrobial actions. It does so while allowing your teeth and gums to be better nourished with vitamins and minerals that are transported in the blood that are required to keep your teeth and gums healthy.

And lastly, it can give your skin a healthy glow. It not only increase the blood in your teeth and gums, but it will also increases the blood flow to your face. With routine use, it can thereby improve the complexion of your skin. With that said however, this DIY oil pulling recipe can be like doing a detox. Therefore, drinking water and supplementing your diet with an antioxidant rich vitamin C powder afterwards can help the detoxification process on all levels – teeth, gums, and face.

You can use a natural coconut flavored organic virgin coconut oil or a flavorless organic refined coconut oil to may this DIY oil pulling recipe.

2. Peppermint Essential Oil

The menthol in peppermint essential oil will of course leave your mouth feeling minty fresh! However, it has other beneficial properties as well. Therefore, this DIY oil pulling recipe is also a soothing analgesic with antibacterial properties that may coincidentally improve that cough or cold you have.

Preparation:

Preparing this DIY oil pulling recipe could not be easier. First, decide to use either the naturally flavored or unflavored refined coconut oil for this DIY oil pulling recipe. Second, remember to use a food grade peppermint essential oil. Third, keep in mind that you only need to swish your mouth with about one tablespoon of the DIY oil pulling recipe. Therefore, use a small enough rubber mold to make it convenient to just grab an oil pulling tablet from the fridge to use.

A full tablespoon is about the size of a mini muffin mold. However, in my experience, a full tablespoon is a little bit more than what is needed. Therefore, I do not fill the mini rubber muffin mold completely. Once this DIY oil pulling recipe sets, you can use the melts immediately. They will melt very easily, so they must be stored in the refrigerator or a really cool room.

DIY Oil Pulling Recipe:

• 4 tbsp. Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
• 1/2 tsp. Peppermint Essential Oil (Food Grade)
• Rubber Mini Muffin Mold

Instructions:

1. Soften the coconut oil as needed.
2. Then mix it with the peppermint essential oil.
3. Stir and then pour this DIY oil pulling recipe into a small mold.
4. Place in the refrigerator to let them firm for about 20 minutes.
5. Then, unmold the oil pulling melts for use and storage.
6. Store the extra tablets in a jar in the refrigerator.

How To Use:

1. Before eating or drinking, place one of the DIY oil pulling melts in your mouth.
2. Gently push and pull the oil through your teeth for up to 20 minutes.
3. When finished, do not swallow! Spit in the trash can.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoy this DIY mouth recipe. You know where to find more DIY teeth cleaner ideas. That is all there is to making this DIY oil pulling recipe.

Source: https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/peppermint-oil