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Using Extra Virgin Olive Oil in Your Daily Beauty Products

olive-oil-dish.jpgOlive Oil can be used for many different beauty recipes and natural remedies. It goes on your skin easily and naturally without leaving a greasy feeling after it is applied. The skin absorbs it readily and has no allergic properties. Olive oil nourishes the skin leaving it soft and supple. It is rich in Vitamin E and has wonderful healing properties, perfect for dry, cracked or chapped skin.

Here are some ideas to use olive oil in your beauty care regimen.

Eye Makeup Remover

Olive oil is excellent for removing mascara, even better than petroleum jelly or baby oil and will be beneficial to the skin around your eyes. Just apply a few drops of oil onto a cotton wool and apply onto eye area. People with dry, dehydrated or mature skin will highly benefit from such a treatment.

Nourishing Clay Mask

Shelf life: Use immediately

This particular recipe uses Kaolin as it is a ‘gentle’ cleansing clay which ideal also for dry skin types. The olive oil gives it extra nourishing properties and elasticity to mature skin due to it’s high content of Vitamin E. (If you suffer from dehydrated skin, we recommend to add a couple of drops of glycerin to the following recipe as it acts as a humactant, thus attracting moisture to the skin)

Directions:

  • Mix 2 tablespoons of Pink Kaolin Clay
  • 1 tablespoon of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • Add a few drops of Rose water to create a smooth consistency
  • Apply to the face, being especially gentle around the eyes
  • Leave on for 15-20 minutes
  • Rinse off and apply your moisturizer.

Healing Lip Balm

Shelf life: Use within 3 weeks

Beeswax and olive oil melted and poured into a small tin makes wonderful lip balm that will keep your lips soft and smooth. Here’s one of my favorite recipes.

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Melt the beeswax and add olive and calendula oils
  2. Stir the whole time so the mass is consistent
  3. Remove from heat, keep stirring and let it cool down a bit
  4. Add the oil of choice and stir a bit more
  5. Pour in a plastic container or jar and store properly

Softening Lip Scrub

Shelf life: Use within 1 week

For soft , flake free lips, mix 1/2 teaspoon of unrefined brown sugar to 1 small teaspoon to olive oil. Rub gently in circular motion onto lip and surrounding area. (We do NOT recommend salt as a substitute as it is too harsh for the lip and face area).

Anti-Cellulite Body Scrub

Shelf life: Use within 2 weeks

Scrubs are renowned to improve circulation and even the appearance of the ‘orange peel’ effect. We highly recommend using olive oil as the base oil as it penetrates deeply into the skin, thus the cellulite busting essential oils mentioned in this recipe, will ‘travel’ much faster into the problem area thus one can see faster results.

Ingredients:

Directions:

Mix all the ingredients together. While taking a shower, scoop up some, not more than a teaspoon at a time, and gently, in circular motion distribute the scrub. Rinse well and pat dry.

Sore or Tired Legs and Feet Moisturizer

Shelf life: Use within 3 weeks

Ingredients:

Directions:

Combine ingredients and apply as a moisturizer with upward strokes before going to bed. For best results we recommend to raise your feet with the help of a pillow when lying down in bed.

Antiseptic Foot Soak

Shelf life: Use immediately

The moisturizing properties of extra virgin olive oil make it a popular ingredient in natural foot soak recipes while the bicarbonate of soda and the following essential oils deodorize the feet while also being help treat conditions such as athletes foot.

Ingredients:

Directions:

Combine ingredients in a small bowl and add to one gallon of warm water and enjoy this wonderful olive oil beauty foot soak!