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 been known to adulterate olive oil with other oils or use...
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...
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....
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 and suitable natural oils. The...
Olive oil is a versatile and delicious oil derived from olives. Traditionally found in the Mediterranean, olive oil is one of the most popular oils. Olive oil is used in cooking, hair, beauty, and skincare. There are various types of olive oil with extra...
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...
Did you know you can exfoliate your scalp? Exfoliating the face and body is common in skin care but the scalp isn’t really something one thinks about too much. This is odd since the scalp can be just as dirty and grimy as the skin...
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...
Shea butter has been very popular in hair care for some time. Shea butter is a versatile butter that aids greatly with moisture retention. It is also used as an ingredient in lip gloss, body creams, moisturizers and soap making. Back home, we use shea...
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...