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Olive Oil & Beauty

The olive’s extraordinary properties have always been recognised and it is part of the history of medicine.

 

The Egyptians were the first to use olive oil in cosmetics in order to keep the skin soft and to make hair shinier in this life and afterwards to preserve the mummies.

 

In classic Greek medicine olive oil was used for massages by the athletes before the competitions and there is much evidence of the flourishing use of olive

oil in the Magna Grecia.

 

From the unripe green fruit Romans extracted a viscous brown oil called ‘omphacium’ and athletes used it to grease their bodies and after the fight, it was mixed with dust, sweat, and blood and conserved as a precious remedy against an infinity of diseases.

2000 years ago Galen formulated the first emulsion, Ceratum Galeni, with olive oil, bees wax and rose water.

In the Middle Ages olive oil was used as medicine for various pathologies for internal and external use.

 

Olive oil and beauty

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