Medicinal and cosmetic uses of the olive oil

Medicinal and cosmetic uses of the olive oil
All we know the beneficial aspects the olive oil on the health, its nutritional importance and that is a fundamental element in the Mediterranean diet. Perhaps but the consumer does not know that the olive oil can have other uses in the daily life. In this article we are going to try to show others of the many virtues that east liquid gold locks up. The effect not only produces the juice of the olive, but also its leaves and their crust.

1. Medicinal uses
2. Cosmetic uses
3. Remedies of the grandmother
4. Uses in the home

1. Medicinal uses

Many of the uses that we are going here to see, really are remedies that formerly were used to alleviate ailments. It is what is called popular remedies and that nowadays no longer are used because the development of the pharmaceutical industry causes that we resort to medecines.

Nevertheless, they are very useful and after knowing them they can enter form part of remedies that we use on a daily basis.

- For calculations in the liver, bladder and kidneys. With the purpose of to expel them, to take in uninformed once every six months the mixture from average glass from olive oil with average slice from liquefied pineapple. Either to take a spoonful from olive oil with the juice of 2 or 3 lemons every three hours.

- Like laxative. For the constipation it is possible to be taken in uninformed a pair of spoonfuls of crude olive oil.

- Rosaceous. To slow down its appearance or to improve its symptoms, is enough with daily realizing massages during three or four minutes with olive oil.

- Hemorroides. With the intention of alleviating the annoyances that cause, it is enough with putting under baking 30 g of crust of olive tree by each liter of water. With the water thus obtained the affected zone is washed.

- Hypertension. To take before eating and having dinner an infusion of olive tree leaves.

- Arthritis: to make an ointment with 25 dry olive oil CL and flowers of manzanilla. To warm up the mixture to bath Maria during an hour and a half, to let cool and to leak. To mix separate a nosey spoonful of camphor and three spoonfuls of alcohol of 60º, to incorporate this mixture to the obtained thing previously. To locally apply it on the joints in massage, twice to the day.

- Antithermal Action (to lower the fever). To put to cook 60 grams of dry leaves of olive tree during four hours. To take from this one three cups to the day. Also this effect can be obtained if we put to macerate 60 g of crust in 250 alcohol g apt for nourishing use. In this coarse case with taking 20 drops, three times to the day.

2. Cosmetic uses

Having olive oil in house, it will avoid the necessity to us to have a pile of creams, since it is a natural cosmetic with multitude of uses and applications.

- Legs of rooster. Warming up to the bath Maria three spoonfuls of olive oil, 1 of virgin and average wax of cacao butter. To cool and to add two spoonfuls of water of roses. To remove everything until obtaining grazes thickens, that we will apply directly on the rooster legs.

- Shaved. In order to improve the worried one and to protect the skin, it is enough with using in shaved a little used oil.

- Lubricating corporal and hidratante. To directly throw olive oil to us on the skin.

- Cream for dry skin. To apply on the skin the mixture formed by two spoonfuls of olive oil, with two spoonfuls of liquefied lanolin to the bath Maria.

- Mask for the hair. To maintain during 40 minutes a little oil on the hair and behavior later to wash the head with champú.

- Punished Hair. To apply drops of olive oil on the hair, to leave makes its effect during 10 minutes and rinse well. Thus the hair will recover the brightness and the lost vitality by the treatments and products of hairdressing salon.

- Taken care of of the nails. To submerge the nails during 5 minutes before sleeping in a glass with a pair of olive oil fingers.

- Striae in the nails. Masajear with olive oil cutículas before going away to sleep.

- Manicure. In order to eliminate cutículas it is enough with rubbing the nails with a cotton soaked with water and oil.

- Bar of lips. You will be able to obtain a very effective cacao for the lips, if mixtures a little oil with wax.

- Exfoliation. To mix oil with salt or sugar and to use it like exfoliation of hands and face.

- Hidratante of bath. To put a spoonful of olive oil in the water of the bath. When you dry yourself, you will notice the difference.

- Makeup remover. In order to take off the maquillaje, a cotton with gotitas of oil uses. Later to clarify the face with water.

- To alleviate the fatigue of the feet: it adds to drops of oil in the palm of the hand and masajea the feet.

- To eliminate painting and spots of the skin: to rub the zone with oil and to rinse.

3. Remedies of the grandmother

- Encías painful. To do you mop in encías with just a little bit of olive oil, to calm the pain that produces the children to them when they leave the teeth to him.

- To heal wounded. Mixture olive oil with black wine and honey, everything to equal parts, and extends this mixture on the wound to heal.

- Corks in the ear. Pon a pair of drops of olive oil inside the ear, tápalo with a cotton and déjalo to act during all night. In the morning it clears the cotton and it applies water temperate with a special hypodermic syringe without needle. This is advised that a professional makes to avoid the risk of damaging the eardrum.

- Antisnores. An olive oil teaspoon before going to the bed. Lubrica the muscles of the throat.

- To take care of the throat. In order to alleviate to the picor and irritation of throat, the best thing is to take a teaspoon from olive oil.

4. Uses in the home

- To unblock racks. It greases the rack with oil and you will solve the problem.

- Protective of the wood furniture. Clean the wood furniture with a mixture of a little olive oil, a little vinegar and drops of lemon. You will obtain that your furniture is clean and prote’ge’s.

- Lubricating of hinges of the doors. It eliminates the noise that some doors have when they are abren and they are closed.

- Cleaning of skin shoes.

- Antioxide. They avoid that they oxidize and they lose the brightness the silver and metals.

- Protective of leather elements, like gloves, knapsacks, belts.

- Cleaning of garden tools.