Ingredients & othere uses ..

[Quassia]

I buy olive oil for cooking as a healthier oil, I also use a little on my hair each night massaged in. I wondered if anyone else bought common ingredients & used them for other purposes?

[4getmenot]

yes hot on coldsore that are just beginning and if blistered an ice cube

[plautus]

When I was young warm olive oil was poured into the ears to loosen wax. It was bought in little bottles from the chemist. For years I thought it was for medicinal purposes only, never associating it with cooking.

[Maydup]

I sometimes wash using porridge oats.

Put a handful into an old sock and tie it up. Us eit to wash with in the shower or bath and it produces and lovely soothing milky consistency which is great for dry skin.

You won't beleive how soft it leaves your skins.

(Empty the oats from the sock - but messy- give it a rinse and use it again next week)