Question from niella
Do you know if it’s alright to use food grade grapeseed oil as a moisturizer or does it have to be cosmetic grade? Thank you.
Debra’s Answer
As far as I know, it’s OK to use oil sold for cooking on your skin. I use food-grade almond oil on my skin and know people who use coconut oil.
The most important thing, though, is that the oil is organic. Chemicals pass right through the skin into the bloodstream much faster than when they are ingested. When you eat an oil or a food, the pesticides in it have to go through the stomach and into the small intestine and past the food before they can be absorbed into the bloodstream. So it’s more important that anything you put on your skin be organic than it is to eat organic food.
