Olive Oil is very good on the skin. I make and castille soap using just all Olive Oil, I do use a little bit of coconut oil in it, because I don't feel skin without it. Olive Oil has good mosturizing qualities, and is very gentle on the skin, and it's cheap. I use Olive Oil in all my Basic Soaps when I combine three oils. Those are either vegetable oil, olive oil, and coconut, or lard, vegetable oil, and coconut. I make two basic types of soap because some people will not use animal fat. I have no qualms about the animals, they are going to be slaughtered for food anyway, why not use what we don't eat. I like it because it makes a very creamy, white, hard, long lasting bar of soap. Vegetable Oil soaps doesn't last as long. A little Emu Oil in Soap is the best. and the best yet is an entire bar of emu soap, but couldn't sell it, because of the price it would be.
Olive Oil in shea butter, you want a light oil, never use Olive Oil, in the shea butter so I can't tell you. I used almond oil from the health food store and it was too heavy. It took about 15 minutes for the greasiness to go away. So I substituted Safflower Oil and it glides on smooth and doesn't feel greasy. You might want to experiment with it though to get the feel you want and to incorporate the properties of the different oils. I know some people are using meadowfoam, somewhat more expensive, but they say it feels wonderful. Do not buy shea butter, or mango butter from the health food store. It is much cheaper purchased in on the internet. You don't want any refined with hexane, and you have to ask, if it doesn't say so on the web site. Roxanne -----Original Message----- From: jrowl...@nctimes.net [mailto:jrowl...@nctimes.net] Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 12:26 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>cream for dry skin Roxanne writes: > ...shea butter whipped together with 4 ozs. safflower oil or sunflower oil > > ...You can substitute any oil... > Having heard the praises of olive oil for skin, just wondering how you'd rate it for this situation, based on experience or opinion. Thanks, jr -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
