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Castor Oil For Your Lashes

After reading about the side effects of Latisse, the FDA approved prescription drug for lengthening and thickening eyelashes, my enthusiasm for the product waned. I then resolved to splurge on Jan Marini’s Eyelash Conditioner until I remembered something I read and tried a long time ago.

I was in my early teens when I read about the age old remedy of using castor oil to thicken and lengthen eyelashes. Luckily, we had a small bottle of castor oil in the medicine cabinet then so I tried it out. I applied the oil to my lashes every night and only after a few days, my lashes were thicker and longer! I remember it as a goopy and smelly oil so I stopped using it (it could be that the oil was not as “fresh” as it should have been).

It’s been many years since then and I’ve always meant to buy a bottle to use and try again but I wasn’t sure where to get castor oil. I checked around online today and it turns out you can get them at regular drugstores or health stores. Even Makeup Alley reviewers highly recommend castor oil for its beauty remedies (reviewers say it also works for clearing the skin). I’ll see if I can find a bottle of cold pressed castor oil at Whole Foods tomorrow. Stay tuned!