Organic Black Seed Oil 500ml – Cold & Freshly Pressed – Up to 5X% Strength Thymoquinone – 100% Pure Extra Virgin Cumin Black Seed Oil - By Alpha01

Got this as trying the NAC protocol having been unwittingly sleeping and working near black mould for ages. It was a decent price for 250ml (reckon it'll do a good 6 weeks) virgin, cold pressed and organic and had the required 1%+ thymoquinone content. It's potent stuff. It smells and tastes...vile. They say you can put it in drinks, smoothies and on salads but I wouldn't ruin anything by doing that. A spoonful of yoghurt or a slug of cooled coffee after takes away the taste easily enough. Burns on the way down but it seems that's pretty normal for the good stuff. I've taken with and without food and either is fine.After a week, about 15 mins after it hitting the back of my throat more than usual (buuurned), I had a bit of coughing and hacked up phlegm. Nice. Went to bed and had whistling, popping sounds in my upper chest all night. Coughed up a bit more as well and cleared out the rest over the following week. Sounds ominous but I'm happy as the odd wheezing I'd been experiencing for a month during my hilly cycle commute cleared within the first 5 or 6 days of taking this stuff. Whatever had been lurking in my lungs has now gone.

This stuff seems to be good quality, but it’s the first time I’ve bought it, so I haven’t anything to compare with. Some people when reviewing BSO say it tastes of gasoline and is disgusting to swallow, but I like the taste of this, which made me wonder if it was not the same or diluted. I don’t think that’s the case, I just have a high tolerance to bad tasting liquid lol.Have been using it for a variety of things, drinking a small amount daily for general health, and putting a little in my dogs home made food too. His coat seems better but that’s not a scientific analysis, just an observation.I tried rubbing a little around my eyes where I get dry eyelids in winter. It did seem to cure the dryness and soften the skin overnight. One thing I will say is if you get any in your actual eye (as I did) you will know about it!!! It’s not quite as stingy as shampoo but certainly uncomfortable. Just go careful around the eyes.I rubbed some into my scalp where I’d had some dryness (not dandruff so much as little scabby patches) and they healed up in a few days. I’m going to be using this a lot more, so have enlisted on subscription for it. Recommend it without reservations. Just wish they did a 1 litre bottle for about £17.

Comes in a plastic bottle which is not great. I would say , compared with others brands, I feel like the consistency isn’t same as others.

A great product at a great price.

Good quality black seed oil that's a very reasonable price comparative are at least £20 more expensive per litre

Really good and mix with caster oil, frankincense oil for my face

The first thing to say is that this oil comes in a plastic bottle. I knew that when ordering as part of my try outs of various brands of black seed oil. So I'd never make this a preferred buy--not so much for environmental reasons as for possible leeching of microplastics into the oil. Most black seed oil brands come in glass bottles, which necessarily adds to their price but to me is preferable.This oil is by far the runniest and lightest in colour I've tried. That suggests to me a low proportion of black seed to carrier oil. I can't be sure on that, because black seed oil is a mysterious product with absolutely no regulatory guarantee to its composition. Buying it online is a challenge, which is why I'm experimenting with different brands to become more informed. Neat black seed oil, as crushed by machine from the seeds, is highly intense and would be both awkward to use and super expensive. So explanations for the huge, bewildering price variations in this market probably lie in the ratio of dilution to carrier oils and in the quality of those carrier oils. For me, it would feel counterproductive to consume black seed oil for my health if it were mixed with an unhealthy, cheap oil.To be fair to this oil, they say it is organic. That must apply to all the contents in the bottle--and you can't claim a product is organic if it isn't. But why you would put an organic oil in a plastic bottle I don't know, because plastic is not organic. (They also say this oil is "pure", but that's meaningless legally.)Since there's no legal definition of black seed oil that guarantees how much pure black seed oil is contained in each blend, I'm having to judge brands by texture and taste. My conclusion is that this product, though very thin, is genuine, which is why I give it 3 stars. It does taste like black seed oil (which has a peppery flavour you can't fake), if with a more metallic note than I've come across in other brands.I don't use black seed oil externally. But I guess a thinner solution would be much easier to apply to the skin, so there's that.

I haven’t tried this yet, however, the people that said it tastes soo yukky definitely have it right!! 🤣