Alternative Uses of Olive Oil as a Beauty and Health Product

Consuming olive oil regularly is an act of self-care — it's well known that this product can significantly contribute to the proper functioning of our body, but it's just as important to know its possible alternative uses.Olive oil can be used not only as food but as a genuine beauty product: thanks to its properties it can be used to care for hair, skin, and even irritations.Its oily texture and its nutrient content make it ideal as a tonic or hair conditioner, leaving hair shiny, soft and stronger. After warming it for a few seconds, simply apply the warm oil to damp hair, gently massaging the scalp (it also helps fight dandruff!), spreading it to the ends and leaving it to work for 30 minutes! You can also naturally get rid of split ends by preparing a repairing mask with three spoonfuls of oil and three spoonfuls of honey, well blended, applied from mid-length to the ends. After covering your hair with plastic wrap for about half an hour, you can go ahead with your usual shampoo.The presence of vitamin E makes olive oil an excellent antioxidant for our skin, fighting wrinkles and general skin aging. It can be used daily as a moisturizing cream for body and face to keep the most sensitive areas more elastic.Its properties are also useful against chapped lips: mixed with melted beeswax, it will give life to your own homemade lip balm!Thanks to its oily texture it can be used while shaving to allow the razor to glide more smoothly and avoid annoying skin redness.One of the most classic grandma's remedies calls for using olive oil to care for and clean ears. To remove earwax, just three days of treatment is enough: each morning, pour 2 or 3 drops of warm oil into the ear and tilt your head well so the liquid penetrates deeply.In case of infections, it can help to prepare an infusion of olive oil and crushed garlic, filtered and applied to the affected ear.These are just some of the alternative uses of olive oil — it can even be used for cleaning the home — but it's certain that olive oil is an indispensable product for caring for our body with natural remedies, inside and out!