Castor Oil.

"My holy grail favorite oil that I have repeat purchased since I did that crazy video two years ago where I just kind of caught on to the whole craze of castor oil. I love castor oil. I use a few drops right before I go to bed to seal everything in. I usually do my skin care a little bit on the early side in the evening, so everything that needs to sink in has sunk in, and this just helps not dry my skin out overnight. I put it on my feet. I put it on my cuticles. I go through this like crazy. So for me, this is my favorite. Highly budget friendly. Facial oil, body oil, foot oil, cuticle oil. So that is probably one of the best things that I found by accident in the last two years in skincare."

"The best facial oil is going to shock you. Castor oil. I discovered this a year and a half ago. I didn't believe in it. I thought it was all hype. I now have gotten rid of all my facial oils and I just use a few drops of this to seal the deal in the evening. Perfect for your winter skincare routine. I love it for reducing inflammation. I've been very surprised how well it's done on my cuticles. The number one facial oil I can recommend in 2025."

"If you have dry skin and use facial oils regularly, you're probably going to be able to incorporate this into your skin routine no problem. I have dry skin, I use facial oils regularly, I had no additional issues with incorporating castor oil into my routine as a replacement for my facial oils or as an inclusive over my body care. But you have to know your skin and know how your skin is going to react. If you used facial oils in the past and it didn't work out, it's likely that castor oil may not work for you. If you've never tried castor oil and you're not quite sure, definitely do a patch test. I found it very easy to apply. I take a puddle of it about a dime size and I swirl it in my hands so it's evenly distributed, and I pat it into my skin. That's how I would apply it in the evening over my regular skin care as a facial oil before I go to bed."

"I put it on right before I go to bed, a few drops, just swish it in my hands, super light layer, and just pat it on. I've also been using it on my hands and my feet just to soften the skin. It is actually quite amazing the difference that a little bit of castor oil has done to the condition of my nail beds both on my hands and my feet and my heels. My heels don't crack anymore. I love it as an occlusive facial oil but I do let my skincare dry down before I add that on. It's basically the last step that I do right before I go to bed, and if I get that thin layer on it really doesn't feel very heavy and I don't have any problem transferring to my sheets. It just sort of soaks into my skin."

"Around 12 to 18 months ago, I started out as a firm skeptic. Someone that thought there was just too much hype around castor oil. However, the FOMO crept in. I tried it out and I've been so so surprised. I would definitely recommend everyone try out castor oil in their own skincare routine, work out how it could benefit them."

"If you use castor oil in the right way, it will definitely have a positive impact on reducing the amount of redness associated with your breakouts and also reducing the frequency of those breakouts. That great antimicrobial benefit. I'm now a total convert and I feel that castor oil really does help me take control of my adult acne in a way that few other ingredients actually do. It's definitely going to help dial up the moisturizing effect that you're going to get from your own moisturizer and the rest of your skincare routine and just lock in all that skin care goodness. Castor oil is one of the most effective, and it definitely is thick. It's a viscous oil, and that's really where its moisturizing properties lie. You never want to use castor oil on its own because it's just going to be too thick to spread across the skin. Instead, mix a couple of drops in with your favorite moisturizer and take your hydration game to the next level. It pairs beautifully well with just about every moisturizer around. If you just put a few drops in there, mix them together in the palm of your hand, then apply it to the skin, it's a great way of just dialing up the moisturizing effect you're going to see from your skincare routine without having to have a plethora of new ingredients. Castor oil is fantastic. And because it's so cheap, you can do this across the whole body, too."

"Thicker oil such as castor oil is a great way of getting the benefits of slugging without getting the unwanted side effects of thick, heavy, destroyed pillow side. Use castor oil in place of a usual slugging balm and I think you're going to see some absolute next level results. I'm happy to crown it the world's best facial oil of 2025 because for me, it's been a true game changer. I've been on a real journey with castor oil, but I did have to fight through a lot of that overblown hype to truly realize where the benefits lie. Give castor oil a go. Fight through the hype, know what it can actually deliver and I think it could be a game changer for your skincare routine."

"Give castor oil a go. Fight through the hype, know what it can actually deliver and I think it could be a game changer for your skincare routine."

"I was super skeptical because I think lots of these oils natural or herbal remedies have come before and has always led to disappointment. So I tried it and honestly I've been really really impressed. I've been using castor oil for the past 12 months now and I definitely think it's had a positive impact on my skin. However, there is definitely right ways and wrong ways to use it."

"Castor oil has a variety of anti-inflammatory compounds and it's very viscous, very hydrating, very moisturizing. When you put it on the brow hairs, it coats each hair really nicely and by light scattering it just makes the brows look thicker. A lot of people swear that it grows their brows and there is a little bit of science behind why that might be happening, but unfortunately we just don't have any studies looking at castor oil for brow growth to show that it grows brows, lashes, or scalp hair. At the end of the day it is very moisturizing and hydrating and it may cut down on brow breakage, which honestly is not an issue for most people other than if you are dealing with dermatitis in the brow area and you're getting a lot of breakage that might actually help you out. But be aware that you can develop an allergy to castor oil. It's relatively common that we become allergic to it."

"It makes a lot of sense that people putting castor oil on their face on their lips are going to appreciate smoother, softer lips. I want to caution you though: castor oil is not a treatment for any skin disease, and there's no research truly on castor oil for correcting any kind of skin problem. So everything that you're hearing on TikTok or on different social media posts, blogs, interviews, what have you, is anecdotal. It's an emollient, right? But is it any more magical than any other emollient at this point in time? Scientifically speaking, we don't really know in terms of how it performs in the skin. But it definitely has a lot of beneficial compounds in it and makes sense that people appreciate improvement."

"While I am highly highly doubtful that applying Castor seed oil gets rid of wrinkles permanently, in theory because of the antioxidants it may help slow down or lessen premature skin aging. It also may help in slowing down the oxidation of sebum, which can be a really helpful thing for people who have acne because sebum oxidizes it's inflammatory, and when antioxidants are applied on the skin there's a lot of good faith involved because it's not simply a matter of putting antioxidants on your skin and all of these things happen right. They have to get in and be at the right place at the right time, the timing makes a difference, and so those are a lot of unknowns in that regard."

"Castor oil is an emollient so it can soften lips but also may help in reducing water loss. The lips are an area that are very vulnerable to dryness to becoming chapped because they are high exposure territory, and they have very little to no stratum corneum that's that water holding outermost protective layer, so they're a lot more vulnerable to barrier disruption and losing water becoming chapped and dry. Castor seed oil can soften and smooth that as well as help reduce water loss keeping the lips hydrated and reducing dryness and irritation. It makes a lot of sense that people putting castor oil on their lips are going to appreciate smoother softer lips. I want to caution you though castor oil is not a treatment for any skin disease and there's no research truly on castor oil for correcting any kind of skin problem."

"There's no research to support the claims that people make that castor oil grows hair. Although ricinoleic acid is a lot like prostaglandins and one of the treatments for hair loss as well as a prescription lash enhancement is bimatoprost, a prostaglandin analog, so in theory if it has prostaglandin-like activity and if it gets into the follicle, in theory perhaps it could impact hair growth, but we don't have any research to support that. The main benefits in my mind for improving hair whether it be lashes, brows, or hair on your scalp is that it's going to reduce hair breakage, especially for your lashes or if you have a hair type that is prone to breakage, more fragile hair. Castor oil is so viscous it really coats the hairs."

"Castor oil makes sense that it would cut down on lash breakage and help ultimately with improving the health of your lashes, especially after using a lot of lash enhancement things that can lead to lash breakage. As far as applying it to the scalp, if your hair is vulnerable to breakage, castor oil depending on your hair type might be a really good option. For other hair types, especially if your hair is more fine, castor oil is very viscous and you're going to find that it's a little bit too much and it ends up weighing your hair down and looking greasy. But for other hair types it works out really really well and it's something that has been widely used for many many many years. A lot of people appreciate an improvement in hair with castor oil because it creates the illusion that the hair is thicker because it's coating the hair, so you may feel like you have an increase in hair thickness, but whether or not it's just an optical illusion from the coating of the hair strands is to be determined. We really need to do some good research on castor oil to substantiate the claims and figure out what the best way to use it is, the best formulations, the best doses."