Wonderful Multi-Purpose Olive Oil

Olive oil is a fantastic oil that is used to cook food, as salad dressing, and is drizzled as is on many foods because it's helpful instead of harmful.  Italian cuisine is well known for using a lot of olive oil.  Well, watching Youtube videos, and experimenting has taught me that olive oil can be used for other things besides consumption.

Cooking olive oil, especially extra virgin olive oil, can be used for the following purposes that olive oil sold at pharmacies, beauty supplies stores and health stores are used for (I found this information on Youtube and health and beauty websites). It does work just as well, hey, it's all the same olive oil.  You get a greater amount of olive oil from the grocery store equal to or lower than the price of the brown bottles of oils.  Olive oil can be used to give hair a hot oil treatment.  Rub a nice amount into hair, cover it with a shower cap, leave it on for at least 20 - 30 minutes (you can leave it in longer if you wish, I've left it in for 1 hour), then shampoo and condition and style.  It can be used to moisturize very dry hair (African American/Canadian hair in particular), and I've used it to moisturize my skin either after bathing or when dry (I mix a bit of water with it for the latter).  It makes the skin feel very soft.  I like to mix the olive oil with some body cream as well to moisturize. 

I've also used olive oil to oil squeaking door joints and that's because I didn't have the proper oil for the purpose.  Yes, it works!  And this next purpose may be more surprising.  Last summer, I had a serious heat rash that occurred due to the serious heat waves we were going through.  I rubbed cornstarch on my rash to try to heal it, and it didn't relieve the irritation at all.  The next day, I decided to moisturize with olive oil and I was so sure that the rash would get worse.  Guess what?  The rash went away within two days!  Using this precious oil is a wise thing to do.