Beauty & Recipes
Beauty treatment and body care
Folk medicine often uses Extra Virgin Olive Oil to heal first pathology, such as:
- Eczema, soreness, itching: delicately massage using Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
- Acne: Add 120 drops of lavender to 300g of Extra Virgin Olive Oil, melting them together. Use this ointment rubbing it on the affected area.
- Skin reddening: add 15g orange flowers, 15 g rose flower petal and some lemongrass leave to 300g of Extra Virgin Olive Oil and let it rest for 3 days. Use this ointment on the affected zone.
- Cuts, burnings: mix the same quantity of Extra Virgin Olive Oil, white wine and egg white. Use in on the affected area.
- Otitis: pour 2 drops of warm Extra Virgin Olive Oil in the ear and close it with a cotton flock.
Furthermore Extra Virgin Olive Oil is the main ingredient of many beauty treatments and masks.
| TANNING OIL Add 4 spoons of salt water and lemon juice to 250g of Extra Virgin Olive Oil to obtain a perfect tanning oil. |
SHAMPOO For a hair softener and brighter effect, mix 2 yolks in a glass of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Add it on the hair massaging and wash it away with warm water. |
| MOISTURIZER Boil 400g of rice till it almost melts. Add 50g of Extra Virgin olive Oil and mix it well. Rub it on the skin and leave it there for 30 minutes before washing it away with warm water. |
STRENGTHENING NAILS Dip fingers in Extra Virgin Olive Oil for 15 minutes, at least 4 or 5 times per day. Your nail will strengthen and get nourishment. |
| ANTIWRINKLES CREAM Thinly grate a potato and add as much Extra Virgin Olive Oil as it weights, then apply on wrinkles. |
IF YOU HAVE THIN AND DRY HAIR Use Coppini Extra Virgni Olive Oil through the whole length of your hair and, to increase the effect of such methods, wear a hair cap or wrap you hair in a warm towel, keeping it on your head as long as possible, to soften you hair. |
| TONING UP Pour a glass of Coppini Extra Virgin Olive Oil in a locking jar and add 3 spoons of dry sage to it. Lock the jar and let it rest for 2 weeks before filtering it. Use it to massage your body, expecially over the parts of the body which are too dry or in need to be toned up. |
LEMON OIL
Full dressing for salads and coke vegetables.
Ingredients for 0,300lt:
- 0,300lt extra virgin olive oil
- A juicy lemon (possibly with a very thin peel
- Some salt
Procedure: carefully wash the lemon through fresh water; dry it well and thinly slice it, not removing the peel.
Carefully put the slices on a large dish and cover them with some salt. Let them rest for 15 minutes.
Put the lemon slices and the obtained juice in a jar and cover it with extra virgin olive oil.
Close well the jar and let the oil rest for 3 weeks before filtering it.
OIL WITH SPICES
Dressing for cooked vegetables.
Ingredients for 0,5lt:
- 0,5lt of fruity Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 laurel leave cut in small pieces
- 2 cloves
- 4 juniper berry
- 1/2 red hot chilli pepper
- a small piece of lemon peel
Procedure: slightly crush all the ingredients and add them in the bottle of oil. Close it and leave it rest for a month before filtering the oil.
MINT OIL
Dressing for fresh raw vegetables.
Ingredient for 0.200lt:
- 0,200lt Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Mint leaves
- Some onion grass
- 2 grains of black pepper
- A pinch of grinded green pepper
Procedure: carefully wash the mint and the onion grass and then put them in a bottle covering them with the oil and adding the other ingredients.
Let it rest for a week before filtering the oil.