Olive Oil and Beauty

Olive Oil and Beauty

From the guru Marco Oreggia, olive oil and tips of beauty. The culture to the shop.

It is well-known that extra virgin olive oil is a cure-all for the body. In fact everybody knows its therapeutic qualities due to the presence of antioxidant substances neutralizing the formation of free radicals.

However extra virgin olive oil is also an extraordinary product for the beauty of the skin. Actually ancient civilizations, starting from the Egyptians, knew its  great softening and moisturizing properties and  made it the main ingredient of natural cosmetics.

Used as a balsam  for the muscles of ancient wrestlers, for thousands of years natural cicatrizant of wounds and burns, thanks to the presence of fat acids, vitamins and minerals, oil is today considered an excellent adjuvant  to contrast aging and skin desquamation and to decrease dryness and rubefaction. If used during massages, it gives the skin a bright appearance and is also excellent to treat weak hair or prevent hair loss.

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