I saw an article in the Star Advertiser written by Terri Bennett recently reporting a number of uses for olive oil beyond cooking and salad dressing.
Furniture polish: Two parts olive oil to one part vinegar is supposed to clean wood products well. They said you could substitute lemon juice for the vinegar. Ah hah! That's something else I could use our lemons for.
Stainless steel shine: You can make your stainless steel appliances shine using olive oil. Ummm... I don't know about this. I'm not that particular.
Preventing hairballs in cats: One teaspoon of olive oil to your kitty's food once a week should prevent hair balls. I don't know about this because I don't have a cat.
Moisturizer: I've heard this before that you can use olive oil to moisturize your hands. I'm not one for liking my hands to be oily though.
AND here's the best. I tried it out and it does work. I also looked it up online and it is recommended by several sites.
Makeup Remover: No kidding! You're supposed to sop up a little olive oil in a cotton ball and swab it across your eyes to remove eye make up. It's also supposed to condition your eye lashes. I dribbled a little olive oil on a tissue and wiped it across my eyes. It worked! I used baby oil before, but maybe this is better.
If you don't like using it for any of these things, you can always use it for cooking. I know for a fact, that works great!
Furniture polish: Two parts olive oil to one part vinegar is supposed to clean wood products well. They said you could substitute lemon juice for the vinegar. Ah hah! That's something else I could use our lemons for.
Preventing hairballs in cats: One teaspoon of olive oil to your kitty's food once a week should prevent hair balls. I don't know about this because I don't have a cat.
Moisturizer: I've heard this before that you can use olive oil to moisturize your hands. I'm not one for liking my hands to be oily though.
AND here's the best. I tried it out and it does work. I also looked it up online and it is recommended by several sites.
Makeup Remover: No kidding! You're supposed to sop up a little olive oil in a cotton ball and swab it across your eyes to remove eye make up. It's also supposed to condition your eye lashes. I dribbled a little olive oil on a tissue and wiped it across my eyes. It worked! I used baby oil before, but maybe this is better.
If you don't like using it for any of these things, you can always use it for cooking. I know for a fact, that works great!
I'll have to try the makeup remover...thanks!
ReplyDeletecoconut oil works, too! :)
ReplyDeleteNo kidding? Is this the sun block type? Where do you get coconut oil?
Deleteit's in the oil section of the supermarket. you can cook with it, too, just like the olive oil. it's a bit pricey but i bought mine at tjmaxx in pearl city where it was marked off a few dollars.
DeleteGrowing up, my mother did not use olive oil. We just didn't have it in the house. I thank my Sicilian mother-in-law for introducing me to good olive oil.
ReplyDeleteYes, cooking sounds good. It may be a bit oily for makeup remover for me!
ReplyDeleteAnd I know where you buy your olive oil now, too! I stopped using eye makeup after I retired because it never stayed where it was supposed to be and I got tired of looking like a raccoon. I've still got some, and if I ever do use it, I'll try this. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou are so beautiful without any makeup DJan. Truly!
Deletewow, thats interesting,,olive oil, wow!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of olive oil for make-up remover since you wipe it off. I agree it would be a little oily for hands where it would stay on.
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ReplyDeleteI cannot wear eye makeup anymore due to allergies but if I am so tempted to use it again, I will try olive oil to remove it.
ReplyDeleteRight now I am soaking orange peels in vinegar for two weeks to make a cleaning product. Hum, maybe I will add some olive oil to turn it into furniture polish.
Thanks for this post...I will start paying more attention to "home remedies" instead of store bought products. I stumbled across using Murphy's oil soap to clean our kitchen faucet hard water stains and it works great. I recall telling you to use an absorbant cloth to wipe your bath faucet fixture after use which you said was a pain in the behind lol...did I remember correctly? My memory is getting a bit fuzzy lately. BTW it's been a few years (2010?) since our bath remodel and our faucets are still perfect. Olive oil reminds me of Murphy oil, if it works on stainless steel and wood it may also work on other surfaces.
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You know what? I've been trying to wipe my faucet area after each use and it's looking much better. Thank you.
DeleteI can't eat too much olive oil, as it makes me go to the bathroom a lot. I guess I am just allergic to the stuff.
ReplyDeleteWow! Had no idea people could be allergic to olive oil.
DeleteI am yellow with envy over those lemons. Dianne
ReplyDeleteI sent that article about different uses of olive oil to my daughter and she liked it. Regarding stainless steel, it's not so much that it shines the utensils up but that it will get rid of the tarnish with ease. Incidentally, I've wondered for months how to work this point in, but here goes, a bit lame perhaps. A while back you talked about having security blankets. Well, I found out I have a security spoon. There is spoon I use and prize above all others. It feels just right, and I think it comes from the past family history at the Volcano House on the Big Island. That spoon might be a hundred years old. However, it was badly tarnished. When I cleaned it up with olive oil, a cinch by the way, it became my indisputable Number One Spoon!
ReplyDeleteRegarding Gigi's point, I acted on the local stage for ten years. I can tell you right now, don't eat anything with olive oil in it before going on stage. I remember one scene where one actor simply didn't show up. Where was he? Knowing the show must go on, the other two actors just said their lines, acted as best they could and exited. Such is the power of the magic of theatre, the audience seemed to go along with the somewhat baffling scene. Never let on directly that something has gone wrong and you will be treated generously by the audience. Later, we found out that the actor had to make an emergency trip to the benjo. "Must have been that pesto pasta with olive oil I had for dinner," was the analyis.
Good gracious! I'd never heard that about olive oil. Wow! I would love to have seen you on stage, Hank. No kidding about the tarnish, hunh? I shall have to try this.
DeleteI've used olive oil on my hands and it works great! The key is to use a very small amount and rub it in well.
ReplyDeleteReally? OK, I'll try it. The things I learn from my blogging buddies!!!
DeleteIt's good for getting rid of rings on good furniture too. Otherwize just on salads. :)
ReplyDeleteNo kidding! That's a great idea!
DeleteI tried giving it to our cat, but she refused to eat her olive oil enhanced food. So forget that one. Unless maybe you have a less picky cat.
ReplyDeleteActually, I don't have a cat so I'm glad I don't have that problem.
Deletethanks!! I think it would be perfect make up remover especially around my dry eyes.
ReplyDeleteThis oil is the best, isn't it?!
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