25 Uses For Olive Oil Other Than, You Know, Cooking With It
We're a sucker for these lists of alternate uses for common household items.
Curbly has a list of 25 things you can do with olive oil other than cook with it.
You can polish your furniture, make chapstick, moisturize your cuticles, fix a squeaky door, control hair frizz, free a stuck zipper, and so much more. Just remember to use cheap olive oil!
Don't waste the good stuff. —MEGHANN MARCO
25 Alternative Uses For Olive Oil [Curbly]
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Ya, a guy I know said he needed some once and tried it . . . from then on, he sported the nickname "Olive Oil". Until he pissed in the closet drunk one night . . . then we came up with other names for him.
Guy was a real winner.
Wood furniture polish
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! DON'T TRY IT!!! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THINKING ABOUT TRYING IT!!!
Olive oil oxidizes (goes rancid) within a couple of days of being left out in the open, and you really, really, REALLY don't want your furniture to smell like rancid olive oil. You'd be better off inserting a dead rat directly into your rhinencephalon. Not a smell you want to smell, let me tell you...
How do I know? Last year my wife tried out this little "helpful tip" on our bedroom's hardwood flooring, and it was months before The Stench™ went away.
Olive oil is really really healthy for you! I know people who have very sensitive skin and it's one of the few things that works for them. I use a wonderful method called the oil cleansing method. The anti-oxidents in olive oil, plus the anti-basterial element of castor oil, make for a great cleanser.
Still, I don't know about some of it. I mean, if you use good quality olive oil, it does have a scent that you might not want in certain things, like, uh, down there....
It's supposed to make a terrific facial cleanser. I've used samples of commercial preparations that have a high percentage of olive oil, and they really do work incredibly well. If you've always had bad skin, it can take a little bit to get used to the feel of it, especially if you judge a good cleanser by how oilless your face feels afterwards. I agree about not leaving it on anything. WD-40 and Astroglide were invented for a reason. Not the same reason, though, God help us.
I make luxury soaps, and the best of the best is castile, made with pure olive oil. It cures out to a lovely white color, accepts any essential or fragrance oil (especially good for floral fragrances, which tend to speed trace in soapmaking), and in its unadulterated form is perfect for babies' skin. Good stuff.
@Jason: I don't know about door hinges, but a drop of any vegetable oil is perfect for lubricating a squeaky hamster wheel without endangering the hamster.








9. Stop Snoring. Take a sip of olive oil before heading to bed. It might lubricate your throat muscles, and stop yourself, or your partner, from snoring.
I am going to make my boyfriend drink olive oil before we go to sleep tonight!
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20. Personal Lubricant. It works…
Hopefully, people already know this, but one should never use any kind of oil-based lubricant with a condom - the latex will deteriorate. Only water-based!