Uses for Olive oil

One of our threads discusses olive oil as a hair/scalp treatment. I have been meaning to try it for at least a month, but havent. finally today I decided since I am stuck at home with my sick son, I would just go ahead and do it, looked up some recipes and found these interesting tid bits I thought I would share with you all.
there are a couple that are my favorites, the hair thing...and add some salt and use as a facial scrub.
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1. I use it in place of butter just about everywhere. For bread, I've been making my own sourdough (I love love love this stuff) and for seasoning I put olive oil in a plate with some salt and pepper and some seasoning. Of course this is much healthier too.
2. I was out of shaving cream and money the other day, and had been using soap. It wasn't very good soap, and it was KILLING my skin. I took a bit of olive oil and used it. I might not bother buying shaving cream anymore.
3. It has other beauty uses, which as a guy I feel weird mentioning, but it can be used as a moisturizer of course, if you don't mind smelling like it. You will certainly taste better then when using other products! My mother, BTW, has a teaspoon of olive oil every day. She is approaching her 60s, which I still have a hard time believing, but looks low to mid 40ish.
4. It can be used as cleansing cream if your skin is dry.
5. When my brother got married in October, my now SIL hired someone to do makeup. I had mascara applied and I never wear it. After getting home that night, I could not find baby oil or Vaseline to take it off and decided to use Olive Oil. Worked great and was probably better than baby oil or Vaseline.
6. A little Italian restaurant here would put parmesan cheese in the olive oil etc. to dip your crusty Italian bread in.
7. I've used it on my feet with clean white cotton socks. Helps to soften up my feet and I think it absorbs better than baby oil.
8. Use 2 parts olive oil, 1 part lemon juice (or white vinegar) for furniture polish, or just olive oil on a rag.
9. Use it for your hair. Not only does it condition, but it also gets rid of the frizz. I put a small drop into my palm & then rub both hands together & then apply it to dry hair. (not wet hair).
10. When I was a kid, my mother used to treat my hair with olive oil. My hair had the consistency of fur or dandelion fluff...
11. I put a few drops of it in warm water to soak my nails before an at-home manicure.
12. Melted with some beeswax and poured into a small tin, it makes great lip balm, leather conditioner and wood polish.
13. A couple teaspoons mixed with a can of cat food will help hairballs.
14. Use it to remove paint from your skin. Rub it on and let it soak a while then wash well with soap. The paint usually comes off without any skin damaging materials. And your skin will be all soft.
15. When I pour it out there is always a drip-so I wipe it up with my hand and rub it in, my elbows are alot better now for it.
16. I keep a squeeze bottle of EV olive oil in the medicine cabinet and use it daily instead of moisturizer.
17. I use it for the static in the winter. I rub almost into my hands then run my fingers through my hair, follow with a brush or two from my natural brush.
18. I have used it in the past for lice control, when it seems the pesticides aren't really working anyway.
19. Mix it with butter and garlic for your garlic bread, very nice change.
20. Rub it on my turkey instead of butter.
21. Mix 50/50 with saved fat for homemade soap. I have used 100% EV olive oil in soap making, but it takes longer to cure.
22. Mix with wine vinegar, crushed garlic, and fresh grated Parmesan cheese for salad dressing.
23. I mix olive oil half and half with lemon juice to make a wood cleaner/polish. Nourishes your furniture while it cleans.
24. A sip of olive oil before you go to sleep stops snoring. It makes the throat slippery. Your spouse can sleep.
25. A sip of olive oil will stop a tickle that is making you cough.
26. I cut off the top of a whole head of garlic, sprinkle it with salt and pepper and drizzle olive oil over the top. I wrap it up in foil and roast in the oven until the garlic gets soft. Great stuff spread over home made bread.
27. Use it as bath oil. Two to three tablespoons will do the trick.
28. For a hand scrub, rub in olive oil then scrub with sugar and wash.
29. For a facial, wet face thoroughly, then massage olive oil into your skin. Use about a half teaspoon of sugar and scrub your face with that, then wipe off gently with a warm, wet cloth until the sugar is all gone.
30. Mix 3 parts Olive Oil with 1 part white vinegar for wood floor polish
31. Use olive oil to treat lice on children - better than the expensive treatments from the store and conditions the scale. Apply on hair, being sure to get into scales. I leave this on for at least 30 minutes, but it could be all day if you don't have any plans - then shampoo out. It might take 2 shampoos to get the oil out of hair. Use once a week as a conditioner and preventative. Olive oil smothers the lice. Once I started doing this on granddaughters hair the school never called us when others were sent home with lice.
32. Olive oil works as a lubricant on the feet (for reflexology) and does not disappear the way lotions do.
33. You can buy a pump bottle for oil at most discount or kitchen supply stores. Fill with plain or flavored olive oil to use as a spray. This can replace the spray cans of oil that many people buy. Spray your pans before cooking. It also is a great way to get a small amount of fat/oil on foods for those of us who are watching our weight—spray on salad or bread or whatever.
34. To condition scalp on bald heads: rub with olive oil and then lay on a hot (not burning!), moist towel. When the towel cools, reheat in the microwave. Be careful not to get too hot. Continue doing this several times.
35. I like to toast French bread and then lightly spray it with an excellent olive oil instead of buttering it. It is very good.
36. Once a week I treat myself to this most fabulous beauty treatment. I give my hair and scalp a massage with olive oil. Using a regular comb, comb it through my hair. This gives it unbeatable shine and it's never looked healthier. Leave it on for an hour or two. Wash hair as normal to remove oil and wrap hair in towel to dry. Then I run a hot bath. While the water's running I stand in the tub and scrub my face, body, and feet with a paste made of olive oil and salt- regular table salt. (This makes your skin extra soft, leaves it glowing, and has cleared up my acne.) Then I soak in the tub for 15 minutes.
The first time I did this everyone noticed "something different" about me but couldn't figure it out. I even got stopped on the street by another woman who asked me how I got such beautiful skin. So there... I've told my secret!
37. I use olive oil (extra virgin) in baking where vegetable oil is called for, it makes cakes, etc. much more moist and flavorful....I have had people ask me for the special recipe.
38. When I was home last summer (U.S.) and stocking up on my known remedies I asked the pharmacist where I could find the old fashioned 'sweet oil' that they put in ears for wax and ear aches. He said it was really olive oil that was used! Needless to say I did not bother to search the shelves any longer, as I have it in my cupboard.
39. To eliminate the prickly feeling of pure wool sweaters and clothes, put 1/2 teaspoonful oil in the wash water (machine or handwash) and wash on delicate or "wool" cycle. Only fluff in the drier for few minutes then lay or hang your garments. So soft...
40. I'm a huge fan of olive oil, mainly extra virgin, and in the past week, I've discovered a good use. I have a sizable burn scar on my arm (about two weeks old) and using olive oil on it twice a day is helping heal the scar and keep the skin around it moisturized and healthy looking. Even the scar itself is soft and not hard or flaky. [l]The most surprising use I found for olive oil was when my daughter was born. I had some trouble breastfeeding the first few days and got cracked nipples. We were given creams to use in the hospital and told to wash them off with water and gauze before feeding - which just made my nipples even more painful. One of the nurses told me to use olive oil instead - it cures the sore skin (probably the vitamin E has something to do with it) and doesn't harm the baby, so you don't need to wash it off.
41. A few months later when Sol had nappy (diaper) rash, I tried commercial creams, and then - guess what - olive oil. It works better and is cheaper than specific nappy rash creams.

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