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And a little extra.
A lot extra.
I feel like this is decently extra.
Are you talking about your outfit or just like in general?
Oh, I'm extra.
Okay, this is decently extra.
We're going to tell the people that aren't watching what's happening with the outfit.
So we've got Cindy Lauper vibes.
No, it's not 80s.
It's a gown.
It is a quilted gown.
Not quilted.
I don't know.
It's a chiffon skirted box dress that I thought and pictured myself walking along the beach
in.
Right.
You look great.
There are pearls coming from her ears and her neck in lots and lots of rows of them.
She looks like she came from the 80s and it's very white.
I, it says white as I am.
Yeah.
You're very pale today.
I look, yes.
I need a tan to wear this dress.
I found out today.
I've never worn it.
This has been a joy of mine now going through my closet and getting to wear the things that
have dust in my closet that I buy and have nowhere to wear it.
So where did we decide that you're really probably going to wear this white dress to
your wedding?
It's like a joke, but it's going to happen.
Oh, yeah.
I will wear white to your wedding if you allow it.
You think I have a say?
You guys are looking at it right here, right here, right now.
We're going to move on.
We put out on our Instagram that last week we finally took a week off.
We did.
Not on purpose.
No, we didn't want to.
It was, it was a forced week off.
I actually was surprised at how okay with it you were.
I thought you were going to be like, no, we need to fit this in somehow because we have
this streak.
Well, I had COVID.
I had 102 fever with COVID and then Carly had surgery.
And I wasn't allowed to get sick or else I couldn't have surgery.
So we couldn't be together.
I mean, it was impossible.
It was life got in the way.
Yeah.
It was like, this is a no.
This is a no for me.
Well, we've had COVID before and work together, but cool.
And this was in the height of COVID.
Remember, we were filming and I would sit by the computer with my mask on and you would
record and then we would switch.
Yes.
But this was different.
There was no surgery back then for me to be like, I can't get this.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
I was just surprised that you were like, okay, we're just going to have to not do it
this week.
I was like, whoa, I had COVID.
I was, I was flu-ish with COVID this time.
I've gotten COVID where I was like, I have a cold.
It was bad.
And I took off.
Well, I didn't go to work.
I know.
Well, we know it was bad when I said, you're not coming into teach today.
And she said, okay, that never happened.
She's like, no, I can do it.
I just need to take ibuprofen.
She was just like, okay.
And then, you know, yeah.
So we had to take off and it was what we've been preaching for 107 weeks of like, you
have to listen to the flow of like, what's happening in your life.
Try to don't fix it.
Don't go against the tide.
So we went with it and it felt pretty good actually.
However, I will say, I'm not particularly happy that our time off was with you having
COVID and me recovering from surgery.
Like that.
That's usually how it goes.
Yeah.
And that was our like, I'm air quoting vacation.
Like that was our spring break.
Spring break.
But for real, I was thinking about it the other day and I was like, gosh, darn it.
It takes COVID and a surgery for us to, to let ourselves take a day off.
And not willingly.
I was not happy about it.
Yeah.
Carly's, Carly struggled with her recovery process.
She's still struggling with her recovery process.
I was hoping it was a little more of a lobotomy, but it wasn't.
It didn't, it, nothing changed here in my dress.
Dun dun.
Wait, this is nothing to do that we're talking about, but it was Valentine's Day.
Right.
We passed our Valentine's Day holiday and I saw online the online versions of the old
Valentine's we used to give out as kids.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
And there was one with Mariska Hargitay and it was like, when I see you, my heart goes
dun dun.
Wait, that's funny.
I would give you that.
I did give her a sweatshirt for Valentine's Day that said adventure is a weights and so
do serial killers.
Yes.
I also bought myself one.
I've worn it a lot.
I went to the dollar store and got Carly.
I bought just things from the dollar store.
It's a good sweatshirt.
Technically the blanket I got from dollar store is $5.
Yes.
And I sleep with it every night.
I get $5 a day.
I know.
It's been cold.
This dress is not what you're sleeping in.
It's a giant blanket.
No.
It's got no fabric on it.
It's a lot of anyway.
Anyway, so we had to take the day the week off.
We're back.
We're back and we are here to talk about something that is trending right now on the
TikTok, which apparently is not gone.
No.
It got banned for like 24 hours and then it came back.
What a drama.
But of course we're millennials.
So we watch our TikTok on Instagram.
Yes.
If you know, you know.
And then on Facebook.
Oh no, I'm not that.
You watch on Facebook?
Yeah.
Well, there are reels on Facebook.
And then I get so frustrated because I go to send you the reel and I'm like, gosh darn
it.
I'm on Facebook and she doesn't go on Facebook.
I don't have Messenger or the Facebook app.
So I have to be on my laptop.
So my messages, like I have a hundred unopened Facebook Messenger messages and that is the
only thing that doesn't give me anxiety.
Like the little red dot on all of our icons, I can't have one.
But I know that there are so many unread Facebook Messenger messages and I don't care.
Yeah.
No, she hasn't gone on Facebook in years.
I mean, I go on, but it's for a purpose.
It's connected to all the work stuff.
She hasn't gone on since it was called the Facebook.
And if you know that it was called the Facebook, you're our age.
Dot edu.
So yeah, this is a trending topic for the health and wellness industry, which is not
new, but you know, when things are like rediscovered, this generation believes that it's theirs.
Yes.
They thought they invented this.
I'm going to tell you a story about how they didn't.
Just like we're bringing back the 80s today.
I, this is not 80s.
This is beach Met Gala chic.
You're a beach.
Wait, I did think of a really good Halloween costume.
I think this year for Halloween, I might be a basic, no, a basic B and just make a letter
B and put all basic things on the B or just dress normally and be you because I thought
that would be funny if I was dressed as a like a B, a bumblebee.
No.
No, but that's smarter.
Like the letter B, the letter B, I want to see you do this.
I do because you're not Andrew's going to do it.
Yes.
And then before we, before we get to it, I think the world needs to know how your Valentine's
Day went.
We haven't gotten there yet.
Huh?
I was in recovery.
So I, I was dead to the world.
Do you know who I spent Valentine's Day with?
My brother and my nephew.
He didn't.
I spent Valentine's Day with my brother and my nephew.
Well, yeah, but you guys came over at five o'clock for the rest of the night.
Nope.
Valentine's Day was the parade.
Yeah.
And you guys came over at five o'clock for the rest of the night.
You didn't.
You went to the movies.
Billy and little Billy came over.
Yeah.
No, we, we went to the movies after the equals parade.
I was on propofol.
So I don't remember Valentine's Day.
Okay.
Well, that's probably best because I, I know what happened for your Valentine's Day and
the gifts that you got.
Oh, wait.
Yes, I do remember the gifts.
It was a time.
I got some things from the Hallmark store and.
You did?
Yeah.
And he, wait, what did I get?
I thought you got things from Rally House.
Yes.
The equals store.
I got Rally House and the Hallmark store.
And the night before Valentine's Day, he went out and said, I have to do some things.
He said, I have an errand to run and we all went, do you?
Rally looked at him and said, how do you get away with this?
I'm like, right now I'm too tired.
I don't even care.
It just, it was perfect because I, Andrew, I'm talking right to you.
I vouched for you.
I supported you.
I defended you.
I made Carly look bad.
Yeah.
To defend you for your gift giving and your, her expectations and she's right.
Yeah.
He got me a car key chain.
A car key chain in his defense.
It's a turtle, which is your like animal.
Yeah.
We collect turtles.
But like animal.
Yeah.
But he got me like a rear view mirror hanging car key chain.
So you never forget.
And a mug.
And a V neck Eagles t-shirt that I took back because I don't wear V necks, but she does
wear gold chain.
So it's very confusing.
We all understand.
But Andrew, we got to talk.
I like gave him a pass this year because I was on medication and I'll revisit it in
about a week when I remember.
No, I don't think that's necessary.
Okay.
No, no, no.
Just let it go.
I don't think you should revisit it.
Okay.
We won't revisit it.
I think, I think behind the scenes things will, will try to happen for you.
Now that we've talked so much, I am Victoria.
Hey guys.
I'm Carly and we're here to talk about the trending castor oil.
It's crazy to me this because the only time I've, it's crazy to you this.
It's crazy to me this.
Okay.
Um, that my mom is the only person I've ever heard talk about castor oil because she tells
me every single year on my birthday, how I was born.
And it's really fun to revisit this.
Oh my God, I forgot.
Yeah.
And she tells me every year and you were two weeks late and they told me to go drink castor
oil and go take a trip, like go take a drive and go over bumps to induce labor.
So we took the, the hillyest roads after I drank castor oil, but they don't do that
anymore because it's illegal.
So basically you were just constipation because castor oil helps that.
Right.
I mean castor oil apparently helps in so many ways, but that's, I grew up hearing about
castor oil as a inducing labor that help.
Yeah.
And we're going to talk, we're going to talk about it because guess what everyone Carly
has also written things down like an adult and a professional.
About when you have your own, you know, merchandise handy dandy, gotta use it.
And it's after it comes right after all the hang men that Melody and I did.
There's some games of hang man in there.
Oh wow.
Yeah.
And oatmeal.
There's a piece of oatmeal.
There's a note for later.
There's a piece of oatmeal and there it is.
Castor oil right here.
Castor oil.
I like how you're saying it.
How do you say it?
Castor oil.
It's just like maniunk and the Grammys.
Castor oil, maniunk, Grammys.
Okay.
Do you, we didn't talk.
No, this is where we talk.
We didn't talk.
I love it when people go, Oh dude, Victoria, tell you, I'm like, tell me what we talk on
the podcast for an hour and then that is will be the extent of it.
Yeah.
Because anybody got time for that.
That's really, that's it.
That's what it is.
We're in for intros now for 20 minutes long because this is the only time we talk.
Yes.
It's the only time we talk.
Yeah.
Okay.
It is the only time.
Did you get it?
Do you guys get it?
Did you hear us?
So I have nine things that make this bottle.
I even have it because I've already bought it and then shut up.
You've been sitting next to it this whole time.
Did you not, you dropped it earlier.
Yeah.
I was more concerned that I was going to smell my dress.
She's not observing, but cause she's getting married later.
So she was very concerned and we understand that.
I'm a little flaklem.
I'm not Jewish.
Is that a Jewish thing?
All right.
Whatever.
I'm canceled.
I've been watching a lot of a, nobody wants this and it's about like a Jewish rabbi.
So I feel flaklem.
Nobody wants this.
You are right.
So this is an organic castor oil.
We're going to tell you what to look out for because there's a bunch, obviously there's
a bunch of castor oils and there's a bunch of brands.
So we definitely, this would be the episode to check out the links in the show notes because
the article that we're going to, you know, reference super informative and awesome.
And then I found a second one that I didn't send you because it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
She knows how much I read and when it's too much, she knows.
Well, it's just a list of the top, the top castor oil.
So I actually ordered the number one without knowing it was the number one, but it never
came.
So Amazon refunded me.
It never showed up.
Okay.
So this was, it's dripping careful.
Oh God.
It's, it's okay.
It should be on the skin.
So it's okay.
But I know this was the one that I had just recently purchased in lieu of the one I tried.
And so I haven't really tried it yet, but I put it together and then I have these patches
that we'll talk about too of, of how you can use it.
So I'm, I'm interested because we'll talk about why I'm, I'm a skeptic in many of these
kinds of things and I'm just a skeptic in many times kinds of things.
Okay.
All right.
So here are the nine things.
Wait, hold on.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Okay.
So in moisturizers, your skin, Moisturizer.
Moisturizer.
So fun fact or fun little story, our cousin, our cousin.
Yeah.
She's our little cousin.
Our cousin's daughter.
Her first word was moisturizer, but she couldn't really say it.
So she'd say Moisturizer and we would just make her say it all the time.
Because when you're the first child that comes out of the cousin, that is like, I don't know
why I said it like that.
I don't know why I said comes in.
I meant when it's the first child born, like in the second generation.
But that's not what you said.
That's not what you said.
Whatever.
We used to put her in the center of the circle and just make her do things because she was
the only baby.
Abby, say moisturizer.
Moisturizer.
So moisturizers, your skin.
It soothes inflammation externally and internally.
It clears the limb, which is a funny word.
I've deduced it's a funny word.
It doesn't need a P, but it has it.
It doesn't need a G, but it has it.
Like, let's talk about it.
It resists harmful organisms.
So bacteria, it has a fighting defense to bacteria again, internally, externally, and
it can heal wounds, which I think is why you only have eight and not nine.
I separated those.
I was like, I'm passing the test so far.
I've got all of these.
You're doing great.
Promotes eye health, which I thought was interesting.
Yeah.
Cleopatra used castor oil to whiten her eyes, which is a fun fact.
Oh, I didn't read that, but I read.
We know.
Okay.
We know you didn't read that.
It stimulates hair growth, which I thought of.
I thought of you for that.
I know.
And I think that is the one I will try.
Yeah, just like a conditioner in the shower normal.
We'll talk how you can use it and use it for these reasons.
We'll talk to you about how.
Eventually, we'll get there.
It relieves constipation or births Carly.
When it comes out, you know, well, I think number 10 back in the 80s would have been
it induces labor and that would have been a positive.
And right now that's a negative.
Like that would be a side effect of castor oil.
They don't give castor oil to pregnant people anymore to induce labor.
Because they're, well, first of all, we'll talk about this, but there are so many other
things and that is not a hundred percent research to be effective.
Yeah.
But that is more of now of a side effect instead of like the reason.
Like in the 80s, like you take it to have to induce labor.
Like that's what the doctors handed you.
And now they're like, don't take that if you're pregnant because you might induce labor.
I don't know how else to explain.
You understand.
Okay.
Yeah.
We understand.
Oh no.
We lost the pearl earring.
Hold on guys.
Yeah.
While Carly is fixing, fixing herself.
So castor oil is actually a bean, which I thought I didn't know.
I thought it was a plant, which is obviously a plant, but like I thought it was just like
a, you squeeze the leaves to get the oil out, but it's a bean and it's 30 to 50 percent
oil based with triglycerides.
So that's where all of the, and there's so many more nutrients and oils and I didn't
list everything because like I would have already turned us off if I was just going
to list everything that it has.
So look that up yourself.
But there, it's all a mega nine fatty acids, which is why it's good for the skin and it
promotes circulation and it helps with acne.
Like I, this is a homeopath.
She's struggling.
I'm putting the earring on for those of you who aren't watching.
There we go.
Uh, I forget what I was saying because she just made me laugh.
I said homeo.
Homeopathic.
It's a homeopathic, like Ayurvedic use for remedies that you have that don't involve
harsh chemicals.
The remedy is a, what is it?
Experience.
Dangerously.
I thought I knew more of that song.
Jason.
Yeah.
Anyway, you don't know it.
Um, so yeah, it's a powerful healing tool.
I think that's how it first started and it was first used.
And now I think it, I'm back.
Yeah.
I think it is, but I think the way people are using it now and we're going to talk about
like the TikTok trend, I, I think it's not effective.
It's not proven to be effective.
Yeah.
What the kids think is helpful.
Yes.
The patches.
So there, there's many ways to use it.
You can ingest it.
You can rub it on topically.
You can oil pull.
Yeah.
I hate that.
What like whole trend.
I think it's gross.
You're literally pulling oil from your mouth.
No.
Well, that's what oil pulling with this is.
It pulls the bacteria from your mouth.
Yeah.
So the oil is what you put into your mouth.
I know.
And then you add it, this one, you, you put it with like ginger, so it tastes a little
bit better.
I wrote that.
And then for 10 minutes, you swish it around your mouth and then spit it out.
So the oil pull, it's like you're pulling things out, but you're not like pulling oil
for your mouth.
No, no, no, no.
That's not what I mean.
I just don't like the thought of pulling anything or that there was, keep it in there.
Keep that bacteria in there.
Just let it fester, super, super healthy.
All right.
So what do you, what do you have written down?
What do you want to talk about?
The benefits.
Tell me the benefits.
Benefit number one.
Are we, are we labeling them?
No, we don't like labels here.
We don't like labels.
No, no labels.
All inclusive.
Yeah.
It soothes dry and patchy skin if you have eczema.
Yeah.
Eczema, I didn't realize was such like a big deal, but everybody has it.
But I think it's becoming more, more kids are being born with it because of allergies
and like just processed food.
Unfortunately.
Lewis probably could have used this.
Yeah.
Lewis had horrible eczema as a baby.
Horrible, like horrible.
It's all you need to know.
But from, it comes a lot of the time you have eczema because you have allergies and he had
a lot of allergies, could have used this, I think, but I didn't, I didn't know.
But on the side of that, the side effect is if it doesn't agree with your skin, you get
a rash.
It could be, you know, it's just, you have like a little reaction and then you just
learn to not use it, but it's not going to be an allergic type of, you need like an epi
pen type of thing.
Yeah.
The next one is it's, I had one of those too.
Lewis had a bunch of epi pens, never used them.
It stays put and it prevents, okay, let me get this right.
It prevents.
You could read it.
I think it's in your book.
I just wrote keywords though.
This is doing it really fast.
Fantastic.
But I'm trying to look at it because I have a really good memory.
I can see it on the page.
Like I can remember that I'm a little bit of like rain man.
Horrible memory.
No, I'm like rain manning it right now.
You are useless.
It prevents the effects of sun damage.
Like it doesn't prevent it, but it's like an allo almost.
You said it prevents the effects of sun damage, but it doesn't prevent it.
Like no, you don't put it on before you go out in the sun.
You put it on after you've had sun damage or 30 years later, like where we are right
now, it will help in the sun damage prevention, like with wrinkles and stuff like that.
Like if you already have sun damage.
Just all the anti-inflammatory properties of the oils that it has in there, which promotes
this is in the moisturizing benefit for the skin and like.
Moisturizing.
I can't, I can't hear it.
So I actually didn't read that.
So that's really good to know because if this was like cool in the 80s, that makes sense
for like mom because she in the 50s, 60s, 50s, 60s and 70s was doing like tin foil sun
bathing.
So the leather bag like skin aging is, if that can like help that, why not?
Yeah, it does.
It does help that.
I read it and I saw it in my mind when I was reading the article.
So but then you put that on top of Lee, like you can put it right into your skin like moisturizer
and that that acts.
Now I think it's a little oily.
Obviously it's castor oil.
So well, that's the thing.
It says it stays put meaning it's, it's like a thick, yeah, thicker, super thick.
I try, I took it out.
You tried it.
Yeah.
And it's clear, but it is, it's thick.
You know how all those moisturizers say like it feels just like a second skin.
You don't even feel it.
It's so light.
It's so smooth.
This is not that.
Nope.
Yeah.
It reduces inflammation and it stimulates the liver and gallbladder, which I thought
was pretty interesting.
Yeah.
So the way that they recommend to do it is with the patches, castor oil patches and
packs is what they're going to have in the panel line, which is basically putting castor
oil on your body or on something like this is a, this is a little patch that you put
over the belly button.
I don't know how much it's effective or if it works, but I'm going to science fair
project test this out.
So you put it on something bigger for the lungs.
If you need help with the lungs or the liver and then you basically saran wrap yourself.
But now Amazon has actual packs of the purchase.
So it's a little less messy, but that would be the external use for it versus like swallowing
it to reach the liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the digestive tract, the laxative that it
is though, like you're going to go to the bathroom.
So long term use.
They say you cannot just like drink castor oil every day for the rest of the day.
It's not good for you.
No.
And it has, it's a toxin.
It can be a toxin if you have leptin.
More than one teaspoon daily.
Like you can only ingest a tablespoon.
What?
Hey, uh, a tablespoon.
Did I get those measurements wrong?
You said teaspoon.
It's just more.
You can have more than a teaspoon.
One tablespoon.
Okay.
One tablespoon daily.
What's TSP?
Teaspoon.
What TBLS?
Table spoon.
Now like, hold on.
Let me see it in the page.
The capital T is tablespoon, a little teaspoon.
I can't remember that far back.
It's crazy how my memory works.
She's a home chef.
Can you tell?
Um, but yeah, you can only ingest that small amount daily before it becomes like a toxin
in your body.
Now that, that's not for putting it on topically.
No, no, that's, that's.
Yeah.
Drinking it.
Basically.
I, Victoria already said this, but when it's paired with ginger, it reduces the number
of harmful bacteria in your mouth with oil pulling.
But we don't like that apparently.
No, I wrote it down as a benefit, but not my benefit.
Yeah.
God forbid you try it.
Okay.
Wait.
So with the packs that you would wrap around for your lungs and stuff, think of an allergy
and think of, if you've quit smoking and you're trying to fix your lungs, that's what it
says.
So like if you have allergies that asthma, things that attack the lungs, this would be
a, a help to pull the bacteria to create more air and more, you know, production of healthier
organs.
And if you were a smoker and you know, you've quit, even if you've quit a long time ago
and it has been a while, you have damage to your lungs due to smoke.
So they say that this is a big help for that, which I thought was fascinating.
Yeah, and I think stuff like that where there's, if you're not a medicine taker and you're
not into pharmaceutical stuff, this is a great homeopathic version of anything that, you're
into trying all that stuff.
I love a medicine taker.
Yeah.
I'm a medicine taker.
Anyway.
Yeah.
So we talked about the pulling and that's good.
Yeah.
It boosts immune, your immune system.
And it heals wounds.
Yeah.
Tell us more.
You rub it on your wounds.
It pulls the bacteria out.
It, but we're jumping.
That's okay.
It pulls the bacteria out.
Oh, wait.
Do you have more benefits?
Let's back, back, back it up.
No, we're good.
We're good.
Um, it increases the production of a word I can't read now.
Limb ferrites.
Limb something.
It's basically, it helps the white blood cells.
Wait, let's ask Justin.
It helps the white blood cells that help like protect against invaders.
So all of like the bad things in the body.
So that's how it helps the wounds heal.
Um, which is a part of the list of the oils and nutrients in it that we didn't list off
for you.
Those are the reasons why it can help you with like cuts and bruises internally and externally.
I liked that one.
It has pain relieving properties.
So you can rub this on joint pain, which I would be interested to try for arthritis.
For arthritis.
Yeah.
Cause I know I'm going to have arthritis in my hands.
It's something that I not looking forward to, but I know I'm going to get it cause I
pick my fingers.
Yeah.
Like that.
Like I have a very horrible habit.
Don't ask to look at my hands.
I won't show you.
And my fingers, it's kind of like I'm needling.
They actually look good right now.
Cause I got my nails done.
And the only time I look good is when I got my nails done.
So I'm getting, but there's like, it's like double edged sword there.
It's not, they're finding it's not really safe to get your nails done because of like
the gel and the cancer and the fumes.
But I'm trying to save my skin so I don't get an infection, which I can't believe I
haven't gotten already.
It's just your face.
Anyway.
Um, but I know I'm going to have arthritis in my hands because my fingers work like I
am a needler 24 seven.
So I, I would be interested to try that on my hand.
That's called arthritis.
Picking my fingers.
Yes.
No.
Anxiety.
I thought you were going to say something new and profound.
A reason for therapy.
No, I just take it out on my fingers.
Continue.
At the amount of frustration, like my body, it's bubbling with an annoyance.
Oh, it promotes college.
I don't care.
If it's collagen and skin cell production, which I think is great because a lot of people
are taking collagen with powder and stuff.
So if you don't want to add powders to your smoothies or your coffee or however you take
your collagen, this is another way to do that.
So that skin cell, it's going to boost hydration.
It's going to boost circulation with the blood.
So like the benefits are really good.
It just depends, I think, on how you do it.
Yeah.
Like the patches that I've already showed you and I'm going to try, they're not proven
the way that TikTok is telling you that the trend that you're going to have, you're going
to de-blow it.
You're going to lose weight from it.
Yeah.
I think that's my problem with this.
It's that I don't think it's true.
I don't think it's true.
If not, it's proven that it's not true.
But they're saying it can't hurt you.
So like if it could be true for you, I think overall as a general statement, it's not
a fair statement, but maybe the individual because the belly button is a pathway internally,
still.
Like the belly button is where our imbibic record is from.
Right.
So that gets cut, but it doesn't just like, like there's a hole in there and there's a
lot of nerves and there's a lot of, it's our solar plexus.
So there's a lot of ways that something that you're going to do there like castor oil can
infiltrate into the system.
So it's possible, but it's not proven like effective 100% of the time.
This is the magic pill everybody's talking about.
Well, no, because the trend on TikTok is, do you want to snatch your stomach, put this
patch on your belly button every night and you're going to have a snatched flat belly?
But that is a farce.
I know, but that's, those are the, like the algorithm when you look up, like I'm getting
all of those ads that are like, yeah, wrap and saran wrap, do the packs, do the patches.
And that's why I'm like, no guys, I hope nobody, listen, those influencers get paid to promote
these products.
We don't.
So I'm going to tell you the truth.
Don't tell anything.
We're going to tell you the truth about it because we're not trying to sell you these
patches.
I don't, in my doctoral scientific career, believe that by you putting a patch on every
night for six weeks is going to give you a snatched stomach.
So that's my problem with this.
I do think castor oil has, castor oil, you heard it though.
She said castor oil has benefits, but I did look up.
We're jumping, but I did look up why they stopped, why doctor stopped.
Why?
I did not.
I'm just trying to figure it out basically because it's not proven to help anything.
It's not scientifically proven to help anything.
And there are more modern ways and there are more modern products out there where I can't
say it that castor oil where it's not proven, there are modern products that are proven
to help the things that you want to be helped.
Right.
But they, do they involve chemicals?
Do they, what does modern mean?
Pills?
Well, they said it's generally safe and they put in quotes generally safe.
So like, they don't know because I don't know who these people are that are doing the research,
but they have not taken their time to do it on castor oil.
I feel like, because there's not enough.
No.
No, I'm kidding.
That was a joke.
Oh, so funny.
Yeah.
I'm just saying that they say it's generally safe.
It's generally going to help you.
In general, we think that it has many benefits.
In general, it's going to.
Stop saying general.
It's lost all meaning.
What was that commercial, the general?
No.
Okay.
Take it back.
But because there, when I, when I said like, why, why don't they doctors give this to induce
labor anymore because there's more modern products that do induce labor that are more
effective than the thought of casserole, maybe being effective or maybe being effective 60
percent of the time when there are things that are effective 100 percent of the time.
Cool.
I'm so glad we're talking about this.
You just negated the entire.
No.
Content.
I'm really glad that you.
Well, no, because I wanted to look up why mom was like, well, the doctors don't give
that out anymore to induce labor.
I'm like, why don't they do that?
Is it illegal?
Like, is it bad for you?
So that's why I looked it up.
I thought you'd be happy that I did more research than you told me to do.
It's not that I'm not happy.
Very happy that you use your eyes and your clicker finger to look things up.
Super proud of you.
Pat you on the back.
It just, there, there are benefits to this.
So we're talking about these benefits, right?
And you just were like, nobody knows shit.
And there's no science behind it and it's generally cool.
And you're like, but it can help your split ends.
What can it wait?
No, I wrote that.
I'm going to try it on my split ends and my scalp and I'm going to try it on my joints.
I listen, this is, it might work for one out of 10 people.
It might work for you, but it won't work for somebody else.
My problem with it was the, the trend that people think they're going to lose weight
on it.
And that's why I looked it up.
There's no science behind it for anything else.
So all the things that we've listed, there's no point.
No, it, it's a natural laxative.
It is.
You can use it as a laxative.
If you take it to, if you are constipated, that like, it's a natural laxative.
It firms up your eyeballs.
I'm not, I'm being serious for eye health.
It's, it is known to firm the film on your eyeballs.
So like your film.
Yeah.
I did my research.
God, be happy for me.
I was invested in this and I'm not always invested.
Sometimes I'm here just to have fun and sing.
My earrings are falling off.
People's heads are coming off.
What's that from?
I have no idea.
It's from a movie, but this earring is as long as my face for those of you who aren't
watching.
Oh my goodness.
Give it to me.
That's, this is how, you know, passionate I am about castor oil.
Pearls are generally not a great earring.
You know, they only said once general.
I added the lots of general.
Yeah.
Other stuff.
So it is also possibly maybe probably not used for acne.
If you've got, if you've got the acne.
So there's, you know, who cares about the benefits of why, but you can put it on your
face at night and you can either sleep with it all night, wash it in the morning or you
can just put it on for like five minutes and then wash your face.
Cause remember it is thick oil, but like, you know, who knows, who knows.
So the scalp conditioner, I thought this one was a really cool option, but like we're
not sure.
I'm going to try this one actually for my hair.
If you have dandruff.
Okay.
Oh my God.
Try it on Melody.
Did you have dandruff?
Yeah.
I do too in the winter.
I have a, I can drink all the water in the world.
I'm not hydrated.
I don't know why and I get, I'm re, and I wear a lot of blacks, which is really annoying.
Yeah.
I have head and shoulders in my shower right now.
So I think this is also, they're saying it is a, who knows, stop it, but it's a very
possible help to condition at the root of the scalp.
So it's, um, I've never done leave in conditioners.
No, because for me, I feel like it makes my hair too oily.
Do you leave it in?
They, they say to use it like a leave in conditioner for the, if for the dandruff purpose.
Oh, okay.
So at the root, leave it in there five minutes and then rinse it out or whatever, but split
ends.
It does the split end thing.
So you can use it as a regular conditioner and we'll just wash it out that way.
But hair growth is a big thing.
I, I don't know this.
Ask me, I'm a doctor.
Okay.
We're going to, if you're supposed to, for the hair growth benefit, did you read that
you have to ingest it or put it on the hair?
You don't know anything.
Look it up yourself.
All right.
Figure it out.
I'm dying.
I have one ear like, what's his name?
With the one ear George Michael George Michael.
How dare you insult a brilliant man like that?
I'm going to try the hair part.
I am going to try the hair part too.
Cool.
Here's what to look out for if you're going to purchase this possible help for your life.
I'm dead.
You want it to be 100% pure cold press.
That's apparently very important.
Cold press, hexane free and hexane.
Actually, I looked up and now I can't think so I'm going to read what I looked up because
honestly who cares?
But hexane is a colorless, flammable, volatile liquid that's used as a solvent and a cleaning
agent.
Apparently, hexane is put into some of our beauty products.
Oh, I'm sure.
We should do a whole episode on beauty products.
Yeah, because everything matters.
Make sure it's hexane free.
That's important.
All of the list of the top, I think it's top 10, Castor Oil brands are all hexane free.
Anything that doesn't say it probably hasn't in there.
I will say this one is a little confusing to me because this is number six on the list
of good ones, but it says not meant for internal use.
Oh, so you cannot drink a tablespoon of that.
But why?
I don't know.
I have to look a little more into that.
This is the vital affair one.
Maybe don't get number six.
I'm going to get that because I'm going to put it on my hands and I feel like if I do
that every night, my generally, generally, if I do it generally every night, my fingers,
what we'll see this is great finger season because never say that again.
I have to wipe my nose because I'm going to tell you why.
If you're a nail picker, like I am, I know there's many more of you out there than you
like to admit.
My hands are very dry right now.
So picking my fingers is very easy.
I'm going to do this and see if it works.
Yeah, it's finger season.
Everyone.
That's a shirt.
It's finger season.
The finger people know what I mean.
They know what I mean when I say it's good finger season.
Victoria hates me.
This is the worst day of my life.
Oh my God, I'm dying.
And if that's true, then I'm having a pretty good life.
Yeah, I was going to say because I think you're having a great time.
Generally though.
There's a science to back it up.
Back it up.
I didn't mean to negate everything we said.
I think everything we said is true.
Oh, do you?
I do.
Oh.
I'm not, once here did we say using castor oil is going to make you lose 10 pounds.
I think it has all these benefits.
I think over time, maybe this is different.
Maybe this is not the stuff that comes out of this glass bottle from 1950.
This is a wonderful lesson in backtracking.
I just got it on my finger for those of you.
That's where I wanted it.
I wanted it on my fingers.
Well, we hope you make a decision of whether you want to try it or not because there's
no science.
It doesn't matter.
But it's an option and it's trending.
So Pepper just moved the camera.
This is a great day.
It's wonderful.
Everybody should make their own decisions.
Make your own decision.
Do your own research.
We sure did.
Yeah, we did two different.
Very different.
This is what happens when I go off on my own.
Victoria told me what to read.
I read what she told me to.
Then I did my own thing.
This is what happens when I go off on my own.
That's why I don't go off on my own.
That's why I always do what she tells me to.
Here's the thing.
I'm making this so much worse than it needs to be for her.
She will all week as well.
Super fun to watch.
It's fun.
Tell me it's not fun.
I think you're right though.
This is not FDA approved.
This is not stuff that's obviously the doctor is going to give out to you for your acne.
I do think a piece of why it's generally not science based is because it doesn't create
money for the United States.
That's what I was going to say.
It's a very homeopathic version and doctors aren't going to give this to you because they
want you to buy big pharma and do the pills and do the...
That's what I meant.
That's not what you said.
That is definitely not the point you're driving home at all.
I was saying doctors don't give it out.
But if you are into alternative medicine and you're not a medicine person and you're not
a medicine taker, then you should definitely try this because I'm going to.
Oh, my fingers for those finger people.
Because it's finger season, everyone.
Your dog's on top of my dress.
She thinks it's a picnic blanket.
All right.
I think we're done here.
I just think it's time.
You know, you get the cues and you're like, I didn't read the cues right.
These are the cues.
I've learned to not read anymore.
Well, don't do research.
Just let Victoria handle it.
Remember, you are always fit to be real and always allowed to be a little extra, but not
too much because you don't want to go off the script and if you go off the script, it
totally ruins the whole podcast.
So be extra, but not too much.
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