Use Olive Oil Around the Home

Olive Oil is amazing! When you think about it, you always envision it being mixed with vinegar, and other goodies, to make a wonderfully delicious salad.

Or maybe as a cooking oil for your chicken or shrimp, but never would you imagine it could be used for anything else, right? Wrong. Olive oil can be used for medicinal purposes, personal grooming and cleaning. How's that for variety?

This little fruit has some of the best oil you can use for eating and cooking, but they can also be eaten as either black olives or green olives.

Now let's explore why olive oil is amazing.

Take Care Of Constipation:

Olive oil can be used as a very mild laxative by swallowing from one to three tablespoons full.

Use For Shaving:

It can be used just like shaving cream. It softens and lubricates the hair making it easy to shave it off.

Soothe Your Scalded Throat:

Two teaspoons of olive oil soothes your throat by coating it.

Feed Your Fern Or Palm:

Each month put two tablespoons of olive oil at the root of your fern or palm. This process rejuvenates them.

Your Dog's Shedding Problems:

When you dog starts shedding, mix a spoonful of oil in your dog's food. This slows the shedding process.

Replenish Your Dry Skin:

Rub the oil over your body before bathing. This moisturizes your skin.

For Your Bursitis:

For relief, each day rub heated olive oil onto your shoulder.

Ease The Pain Of Frostbite:

Gently rub some heated oil onto the frostbitten area.

Relieve Your Earache:

Put a few drops of heated olive oil into your ear. Insert cotton and cover with a hot water bottle.

Soothe Your Cough:

1 cup of honey
½ cup of olive oil
4 tablespoons lemon juice

After heating the mixture for 5 minutes, stir or shake for 2 minutes, then every two hours take a teaspoon full. Store the mixture in a container for later use.

Put On Jellyfish Stings:

Until you can get medical attention, just put the oil over the areas that were stung.

Shine Lacquered Metal:

To polish your Lacquered metal, put some drops of the oil on a soft cloth, then wipe gently.

Hair Conditioning:

Gently rub some heated oil onto your scalp and hair. Use a towel to wrap your hair, sit under a dryer for about 10 or 15 minutes, then shampoo your hair. This process deep conditions your hair.

A Cleanser For Your Pearls:

Rub each individual pearl with a small amount of oil, the using a soft cloth, wipe them clean.

I'm sure you know that olive oil is fragrant and edible, and is made by crushing and pressing olives. But did you know that as far back as 3300 B.C., it was being traded by the Aegean Island villagers to Crete and Greece.

And that around 165 B.C.E., it was claimed that for 8 days, in the temple of Jerusalem, a jar of olive oil burned. Apparently this so amazed the Jewish army that had taken the city back from Syria, that Chanukah, a Jewish holiday is now being celebrated in honor of this wonder.

You'll love this! Apparently women in ancient Greece and Egypt were told they could use olive oil as a contraceptive. I wonder how long it took them to realize it didn't work. Olive oil is amazing, but it's not that amazing!