Olive oil is one of the best natural oils in the world and is versatile for hair, health and beauty but it isn’t always available in the purest form. Unscrupulous oil producers have being known to adulterate the oil with other oils or use other methods outside cold pressing...
Olive oil is one of the most popular oils for cooking. I use it in cooking a lot and have shared a few of my recipes in the Cooking with Oils series. Olive oil is a heart healthy oil that’s a staple part of the Mediterranean diet. It contains...
Olive oil is a versatile oil produced by pressing whole olives found mostly in the Mediterranean region where it is a huge part of their diet due to its health benefits. The most common uses for olive oil is in cooking and hair care. 5 Benefits of Olive Oil...
Hair steaming is great for infusing moisture to your hair, keeping it soft and helping other treatments work better. In order to get the best out of hair steaming, you also need to coat your strands with appropriate deep conditioning products as well as suitable natural oils, either mixed in with...
Olive oil is a versatile and delicious oil derived from olives, traditionally found in the mediterranean. It can be used in cooking as well as for beauty and skin care recipes. There are various types of olive oil with extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) being the most sought after...
If you live in a dry, desert and/or humid environment, then you’re familiar with the dry and chapped lips struggle. Previously, mine had me biting my bottom lip until it was almost raw from peeling away the dead skin with my teeth. Not a very pretty picture. Initially, I...
Exfoliating the face and body is common in our skin care regimen but the scalp isn’t really something one thinks about too much, which is odd since the scalp can feel just as dirty and grimy as the skin along with flakiness and a general icky feeling. You know the...
This is the first in the Cooking with Oil Series, which will look at the best types of oils to use for cooking, their benefits and why you should add them to your diet. The benefits of Olive Oil for hair were discussed in two previous articles – Softer...
When it comes to hair breakage, one of the best oils to help fight this problem is carrot oil. Carrot oil was covered in an earlier article – Strengthen Your Hair with Carrot Oil, which gives two treatment options. This article will cover 4top products with carrot oil, which...
Shea butter has been a very popular hair product for some time. It’s natural, odourless and is excellent for hair sealing, twist outs and braid outs. It is extracted from the nut of the shea tree, which is found mostly in West Africa. It can be either creamy white or...
Soybeans were part of my family diet when I was growing up but I hated it for reasons I can’t remember now. I did everything to avoid eating it. Eventually, my mum gave up trying to force feed it to me. Over the last few months, I’ve developed an...