Olive oil health and beauty products and tips

Since ancient times, olive oil has been one of the most popular products with many different usages - for healthy diet, skin and hair care, sun protection and as a main substance for lots of cosmetic products.

Olive oil and its use has long history since the times when the Romans used it for the benefit of olive oils as a medicine product. In the Mediterranean countries olive oil is one of the widespread cooking products that is used for preparing almost all sort of dishes.It’s a fact that because of the daily use of olive oil the people from this countries suffer less from heart diseases than people of other countries in Europe.Olive oil has a positive effect on the cholesterol level in our blood helping the bad cholesterol levels go down without affecting the good cholesterol. It also stimulates bone growth and the absorption of calcium, helps preventing skin aging, cancer and diabetes so that it’s essential if you include olive oil in your daily menu and if possible to replace vegetable oil you use when cooking with olive oil.Olive oil is as well a great remedy for Arthritis. The high percentage of unsaturated fat and vitamins A and E helps in preventing/recovering sun damage, body burns and skin problems and inflammations.

The most popular olive oils on the market (in increasing order of quality) are:Olive Pomace Oil - acidity max 0.5º, Olive Oil - acidity max 1.5º,Virgin Olive Oil - acidity max 2º, Extra Virgin Olive Oil - acidity max 0.8º and Extra Virgin Organic Olive Oil.

Olive oil can be also used in pure form as a home cosmetic product for brittle nails (with few drops of lemon juice), for dry and chapped lips, to soften your hands, for damaged, dry or fine hair as hair mask ( just add one egg to 1/2 teacup of warm olive oil/, the mask should be kept for 30min on your hair covered with a plastic cap.If you also have dry face or body skin you can use olive oil as a body lotion, same refers to dry feet.

Olive oil is actually a product with universal usage of course if you don’t like the smell you can always buy cosmetic products based on olive oil.There are plenty of different brands of olive oil cosmetic products on the market to choose from - face or body olive oil soaps, Body lotions, Olive Oil Hair shampoos and Conditioners, hair masks and sun lotions, etc.Whatever you try, you definitely will benefit from the well known healing effect of olive oil elixir.

Benefits of OLIVE OIL for HAIR !!!

My hair is falling off like crazy ...I dont know if its age or stress . But its really thinning these days and its a huge concern for me and its bothering . Olive oil For Hair - I read it in a magazine { Cant believe everything you read in a magazine } and wanted to try it for so long.

Today I tried Olive Oil to hydrate my hair. I didnt use any fancy olive oil thats sold in hair product stores ,but just used the olive oil I have in my kitchen , the extra virgin Olive oil.

This is what I did , I took a small quantity into a small bowl and heated it for 10 secs in my microwave. Now the oil is luke warm. I applied the oil to my scalp and hair and massaged a few minutes . I let it stay for 3 hours then washed it off.

I didnt know what to expect but It was really easy to wash it off .... it is much easier than washing hair with regular hair oil .

Okay now the after effects ...My hair is soft when I touch it. I feel great about the feel and look. Let me repeat this process for another month and will let you know the results.

This is a simple , best , and most of all a "cheap method" which can be done @ home to help repair damaged and dull hair . So people if you are spending time in the sun and in the pool all that chlorine effects should be reversed. Try this out and you will see the results.

Good Luck !!!!!!