Ways to take oils?

Hi world. Just started exploring oils as an alternative/adjunct to flower. I'm curious about how people actually take it.

Officially you're told to keep it under your tongue, obvs to get it into your blood stream more quickly. However, this seems like a sloppy way as the loose oil inevitably goes into your stomach via saliva/eating/drinking/swallowing etc and realistically you're going to have to keep it there for a while for it to be fully absorbed sub lingually. This, you may as well just use edibles.

So I've been experimenting with methods to keep it there longer without having to worry about swallowing etc. I tried Trevor mints and soaking the oil into that, but it didn't absorb well (and these were the most porous mints I could think of). Recently, I tried swan slim cigarette filters and keep them in my gum (think nicotine pouches), but it feels like they just hold the oil rather than release it, meaning you have to bite it to release and you're back to square 1.

Obvs the oil and THC is lipophilic, so something that absorbs fats would be good, but can't think of anything that could be held in the mouth a while?

What do other people do?