Re: Castor Oil Pack Questions

OK, after 4 years of using castor oil packs successfully, here's what I did:
What is the area you wish to cover with the pack? Around 20 inches by 10 inches--if it goes all the way across your upper and lower abdomen -- under your breasts down to the area just above your pubic bone? I have approximated the size of the area. The size you are measuring is going over the liver and intestinal area and will help both.

Cut a piece of flannel ( I used cotton flannel) and fold it to the dimesnions you want. You're going to have 3 thicknesses or layers of cloth.

Take a plastic garbage bag and put the folded cloth over it. I poured the castor oil in the middle and then spread it out to the size of the area I wanted to cover. You are not going to saturate a couple of inches along the edges. You don't want it dripping, just saturated. While you have it on in the night, your skin is going to absorb a lot of the castor oil. I used a heating pad on medium all night. In hot weather, you might not want to. But use it long enough to get the castor oil warm enough to start it penetrating the skin.

I put a towel over the plastic bag and tucked all of it into my shorts. It's bulky and hot in hot weather, but will do a lot of good. Use enough castor oil to saturate a pack for the size of your body area you want to cover.

You can get the big, plastic storage dishes at the grocery store that have covers on them. In the morning fold up your castor oil pack w/o the towel--just the pack and the plastic garbage bag and put it in one of these dishes and store it in the refridgerator in the daytime. If you want a clean garbage bag the next day, store only the pack in the plastic dish.

Every night you use it, you are going to have to add a lot more castor oil, because your skin has absorbed a lot of it the night before. Use the pack for 30 days and then discard it and make another one. I've washed the pack cloth in the washing machine and used the cloth over again. The castor oil washes out of cotton, but it does stain. These packs are messy. Use only old clothes and old bedding. Protect your mattress.

The remnants of the castor oil that remains on your skin the next morning you can wash off with baking soda.

You've got to use enough castor oil and cover the area you want it to work on. They really work when you do. Tweet