Olive Oil

[Noma]

My wife mentioned her nonna and zie pouring olive oil in her and her siblings ears when they were little. I always thought she was pulling my leg. Now seems it may have been true.

[Lollita]

Olive oil was originally only available through Chemist shops in England, I think it was the cook/chef and thoroughly interesting woman, Elizabeth David who first used it in her recipes after travelling in the Med. and Italy.

Sorry very off topic now.

[Gala Placidia]

Not at all, olive oil has been used for centuries to treat ear conditions and has saved many lives. Here is just a sample of what it can do. Look under "olive oil"
How to Get Rid of an Ear Infection

[Mediated Anarchist]

So if olive oil is a natural cure and is used in ear conditions, should I not lead Sally Donaldson by the hand, but by her ear to pastures new so we may both repent?

There's so much to all this religious stuff that I don't know how or if I will ever learn.

[Jinty]

Originally Posted by Lollita

Olive oil was originally only available through Chemist shops in England, I think it was the cook/chef and thoroughly interesting woman, Elizabeth David who first used it in her recipes after travelling in the Med. and Italy.

Sorry very off topic now.

My mum bought her olive oil in Boots in the sixties "Olive Oil BP" in a little bottle - she never used it in cooking OR cleaning she used it as................ suntan lotion

[sueflauto]

Originally Posted by Jinty

My mum bought her olive oil in Boots in the sixties "Olive Oil BP" in a little bottle - she never used it in cooking OR cleaning she used it as................ suntan lotion

Wonder what they thought the medical use for Extra Virgin olive oil was in the 1960's?

[Gala Placidia]

Olive oil has been used in cosmetics for well over 4,000 years now. There are plenty of cosmetic products nowadays which contain olive oil, although the real thing is just perfect.
Olive Oil Treatments for Beautiful Hair & Skin - Associated Content
Some other uses:
If you do not have any cleansing cream or lotion left home, use a piece of cotton with some olive oil to clean your skin and remove make up.
An instant beauty mask: Mix an egg yolk with a few drops of olive oil and brush it over your face and neck like an ordinary mask. Allow it to dry and keep it for 10 minutes on. (Don't allow anyone to see you as it can provoke a stroke and try not to move a single muscle in your face or neck) After the 10 minutes, remove the mask with plenty of warm water. Apply a toner and some moisturiser. Perfect skin!

[Sally Donaldson]

Use that same olive oil and egg yolk recipe on dry cracked elbow skin.

[Gala Placidia]

Originally Posted by sueflauto

Wonder what they thought the medical use for Extra Virgin olive oil was in the 1960's?

Instead of writing a long list of possible uses, here is a text written in 1934 which clearly explains how useful it was (and is) to have some extra virgin olive oil at home
Tresorie - OLIVE OIL AS A MEDICINE [Olive Oil As A Medicine]

[Angie and Robert]

Thats interesting Gala, our next door neighbour (Mario who knows everything) has a couple of spoonfulls with his breakfast each morning, not my favoured way of using it , but at well over 70 he puts us to shame. And I remember the tiny bottle of oil my mother kept in the larder, and did have it warmed and poured down my ear, then I discovered some weird recipe for mixing it with a teaspoon of sugar and using it as a hand scrub, she wasnt very pleased with me, but for cooking then never, it was always lard! ugh.
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