My wife is an Ayurvedic practitioner and got me to try it. I rank it up there with ear candeling. Anytime you deliberately focus on any kind of health regimen….brush teeth, gargle, scrape tongue, etc. you will do a much more thorough job of said task and swishing coconut oil in your mouth is simply one additional task that can help remove and eliminate bacteria in the mouth. No harm no foul for trying and I found it relaxing and refreshing to do it.
I have a few friends who have tried it, some swear by it and others couldn’t stand it. Personally I’m intrigued, I’ve switched a lot of my store ought beauty products to homemade, but this is a bit weird for me. I actually use safflower and/ or coconut oil on my face regularly, but I’m not sure about swishing it in my mouth for 15 minutes!
I’ve read one dental hygienist say it’s the equivalent to putting soap water in a pan of used cook oil with all the grime still in there. It really only takes off about 1/5 layers worth of “gunk” but I’m curious about how it supposedly rids the mouth of gingivitis causing bacterias!