olive oil
Olive oil is one of the best types of natural vegetable oil, which is extracted through the pressure or the squeezing of the fruits of the olive tree, and is in bright green, and uses olive oil in many different fields, including: cooking, medicine, pharmacy, soap industry, contains a lot of minerals and vitamins.
Olive trees are grown in the Mediterranean, in Europe and in some countries around the world. There are more than seven hundred and fifty million olive trees planted around the world, most of them in the Mediterranean region, about 95% of the total.
Benefits of olive oil for the face
Olive oil is very useful for the face and skin in general; it is the best moisturizer for the skin because it penetrates and reaches the depths of the skin, it works to form a strong shield to maintain the moisture, freshness and smoothness of the face, and in order to benefit from olive oil must consider the choice of virgin olive oil as it contains all elements and substances that benefit skin and face. There are some ways in which olive oil is used on the face, including the following:
- Lotion for moisturizing dry facial skin: Mixolive oil with lavender oil in equal parts and should be applied to the face at night, making the face more moist and away from the drought.
- To prevent facial wrinkles: Mix olive oil with a little lemon juice, then massage the face at night and leave until the morning on a daily basis, as it will give the face smoothness and vitality and reduce wrinkles.
- Cream for the area surrounding the eyes: Apply a little olive oil around the eyes area with gentle massage using a piece of cotton.
- Olive oil removes make-up from the face: where the olive oil is mixed with almond oil, and is kept inside the bottle, it is used to remove make-up and give eyelashes nutrition and good density.
- Olive oil is considered to be one of the best moisturizers of the lips, by massage the lips with olive oil.
- Olive oil is applied to the skin before going out into the sun; it acts as a sunblock as it prevents the destruction of skin cells caused by ultraviolet rays.
Olive Oil Classifications
- Extra virgin olive oil: Olive oil, which is extracted from fresh fruits and extracted directly from the olive tree, and divided into degrees in terms of acidity are as follows:
- Excellent berry and acidity does not exceed 1.0%.
- A good bachelor and his acidity does not exceed 2.0%.
- Semi-good (pure oil) and its acidity does not exceed 3.0%.
- Olive oil: This is the oil extracted from the remnants of the fruit squeezing, by organic solvents with refining. It has the following types:
- Crude oil (raw).
- Virgin oil.
- Refined oil.