OLIVE OIL-Benefit and Uses

What to do with Olive oil

One of the oldest ingredients used in all parts of the world is olive oil, originally, a product of the Mediterranean area.  From the olives come oil that is used in many ways with benefits for the entire body, inside and out.  

The oil is derived from the olives and refined from a heavy oil to a fine extra virgin consistency for use on salads and where a thinner oil is preferred.  

There are other uses for this natural product from olives.  

• Olive oil is beneficial as a skin ointment to minimize and smooth wrinkles.  It provides protection from the harmful rays of too much sun.  Applying olive oil to the hair gives the hair a smooth enriched appearance, and makes it more manageable.

• Taken internally by eating food with olive oil provides nutrients that benefit the skin and hair directly from inside the body.  This oil is used in the manufacturing of many products because it is natural and beneficial

• Soap, cosmetics, cleaning compounds, hair and skin preparations contain some amount of olive oil.  These are vegetable based products

• Even pet food now may contain olive oil for the benefit of the pet and its outside coat

• Got squeaky hinges?  Use a little olive oil on those hinges, the squeak will be gone in no time

• Shoes look dull from wear?  Rub a little olive oil on them.  They will look new and revitalized.  This is a good solution in a pinch.  As a last resort, you have no shoe polish, do this and your shoes should look as good as the rest of your outfit

• Use olive oil as a polish for wooden furniture.  Mix olive oil with lemon essential oil and you have a cleaner and a polisher in one:

    1/2 teaspoon olive oil

    5 drops lemon essential oil

Pour into a spray bottle, spritz, and wipe with lint free cloth. The lemon disinfects and olive oil adds the shine.  

• Lemon juice and olive oil mixture can be used to mop a wooden floor.  Add vinegar to cut grease, deodorizer and disinfect: 

    3/4 cup olive oil

   1/2 cup lemon juice

   1/4 cup vinegar 

   1 gallon of water

• Pour a small amount of olive oil on a cloth.  Rub over a sticker that is hard to come off.  Rub until the sticker loosens and turns into a ball.  Wipe away the ball and the gooey access.  That’s how you remove a sticker easily, using a product from your pantry.

• Got paint brushes with dried up paint in them?  Soak them in olive oil for 30 minutes, then wipe them clean with a rag.

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Uses for Felt

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There are many uses for Felt.  Felt is made by wetting wool fibers, pressing them together into a non-woven mat. There is no crosswise or lengthwise direction. This is eliminated in the wetting and pressing process.

You can make your own Felt if you wish.  I use ‘store-bought’ felt because I need a larger quantity for household as well as creative uses.

Craft Felt can be purchased in 72” width and assorted colors. Felt in 36” wide is also available. Because it is non-woven, it does not have a selvage edge and can be cut with scissors without fraying.  This is a good thing when cutting out shapes, costumes and Christmas decorations.  

Adhesive backed Felt is handy when the Felt has to stay in position without moving. Lining the bottom of a drawer used to store small tools or sewing notions will keep items in place and prevent them from getting jumbled and mixed up.

Lining the inside of a trinket box that you have created is attractive and does not allow the noisy rattling of the contents.  Contrasting Felt colors add to the design of the creation.  Adhesive backed Felt comes in handy to be used in this way.

Lining the inside of a sewing basket will prevent loose pins from poking through.  Using a contrasting color will make it easier to find loose items in the basket, thimbles, pins, needles, etc.  

Felt is an ideal non woven to use around the Christmas tree.  You can be creative and use any color you wish.  If you like a live tree, cleaning up the fallen needles is less of a task.  Just pick up the felt sheet, empty it outside or brush it off outside. Fold it up and store it until next Christmas.

Make any drawer a jewelry drawer.  Line the bottom of the drawer with Felt.  Place your necklaces, bracelets, beads anything you want to keep in play in the Felt lined drawer.  Each time you open the drawer you will find that your jewelry does not move around. 

Felt can be used to make Felt boards for learning.  Felt figures and alphabet letters on a Felt board can be moved around by the children as they learn. 

Decorate a child’s room with Felt.  Make a valance to go around the perimeter off the room just below the ceiling, this is where the cornice or moulding is located.  If there is mounding, use double sided tape to adhere the felt valance to the mounding all around the room.  You can staple the valance to the moulding instead of the double sided tape if you do not want to use the tape. This will also work on plaster walls and plaster board.

Cut out felt pictures of animals and put each one in a frame and display on the wall or table easel.  This can be a way for the child to learn the animals.  Cut out alphabet letters and do the same.

Save left over felt, there is a good chance it will come in handy in the future.

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