Oil Pulling for Cleanse - The Oil Pulling Cleanse Handbook for Beginners Simply put, oil pulling is the process of swishing one of many different types of vegetable oil around in your mouth in order to draw the toxins out of your body through your mouth. It's a practice that's meant to cleanse the body thorough your mouth, by drawing toxins out so that you can spit them out instead of leaving them in your body. It's considered a folk remedy because...