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Floral Infused Olive Oil: Rich Beauty Aid
Did you know olive oil is a lovely (and natural) skin moisturizer? Here’s a way to make it more special…infuse it with flowers picked fresh from your garden!
Flowers & Olive Oil - Tipnut.com
Ingredients:
Glass jar (pint)
Flower petals (1 1/2 cups)
Extra Virgin Olive Oil (1 3/4 cups)
6 Vitamin E Capsules (400 IU)
Directions:
- Fill a clean jar with your choice of fresh flower petals or buds. Pierce the vitamin capsules and squeeze the oil into the jar on top of the petals.
- Heat olive oil over medium heat then pour over petals. Seal and shake jar gently to mix.
- Place the jar in a sunny location and turn it over daily for 2 weeks.
- After 2 weeks, strain the oil to remove all petals then bottle in a sterilized container.
Tips For Use
- Use as a bath oil (2 to 3 TBS) or apply on skin after bathing/showering and use as a body moisturizer.
- Apply to dry patches of skin on hands, elbows, knees, feet.
- Can be used as a facial moisturizer, be careful not to get the infused oil in your eyes.
- Some believe that eczema, rosesca and stretch marks benefit from applications of olive oil, try a regular treatment to see if it helps.
Flower Choices With Reported Skin Healing & Therapeutic Qualities
- Echinacea, Lavender, Marigolds, Rose Petals, Pansies, Calendula
- Herbs can also be used
Note:
- Do not use petals that have been sprayed with chemicals, they’ll transfer to the oil and then be absorbed by your skin.
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I just use pure extra virgin olive oil as a moisterizer on my elbows and legs and feet or any where the skin is dry.I do this every other day but could do it every day.
Olive oil also has proven very effective in treating my husbands sebhorric dematitis where all other pharmaceutical treatments have been less than helpful. He continues to use is once a week as maintenance. Very impressed with its moisturizing properties!
I think it’s great for ladies to make their own skincare items, but I am increasingly annoyed with this olive oil kick; olive oil will BECOME RANCID if left out!!!!!!!!!! and it smells awful when it does!!!!
So are you assuming everyone knows to keep it in the fridge? I hope they do, if not, look out!!
Ben olive oil does not need to be refrigerated, it can be successfully stored in the pantry for up to/at least a year.
I don’t refrigerate my olive oil either… and it does just fine. I use pure olive oil on my face/body every day. I keep it in a little glass pump lotion bottle that another face cream came in. I also use olive oil in my hair while it’s still fresh and damp from shampooing.