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25 Uses For Olive Oil Other Than, You Know, Cooking With It

2007-06-15T22:16:32Z

We're a sucker for these lists of alternate uses for common household items.

Curbly has a list of 25 things you can do with olive oil other than cook with it.

You can polish your furniture, make chapstick, moisturize your cuticles, fix a squeaky door, control hair frizz, free a stuck zipper, and so much more. Just remember to use cheap olive oil!

Don't waste the good stuff. —MEGHANN MARCO

25 Alternative Uses For Olive Oil [Curbly]
(Photo:zesermelda)

Comment from pestie on 2007-06-18

2007-06-18T22:08:33Z

@Jason: I don't know about door hinges, but a drop of any vegetable oil is perfect for lubricating a squeaky hamster wheel without endangering the hamster.

Comment from palegreenstars on 2007-06-17

2007-06-17T21:59:39Z

It works fabulously getting White Out off of anything. Even under your nails.

Comment from fairweather on 2007-06-15

2007-06-16T04:55:12Z

@Jason
@alk509

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Comment from Trai_Dep on 2007-06-15

2007-06-16T04:53:03Z

"Keeps Greek boys more stoic while sleeping over."

Anyone? ANYone?!

Comment from ninjapoodles on 2007-06-15

2007-06-16T01:55:33Z

I make luxury soaps, and the best of the best is castile, made with pure olive oil. It cures out to a lovely white color, accepts any essential or fragrance oil (especially good for floral fragrances, which tend to speed trace in soapmaking), and in its unadulterated form is perfect for babies' skin. Good stuff.

Comment from eleemosynary on 2007-06-15

2007-06-16T00:40:59Z

Olive oil also helps with burns, especially when your burn your tongue on hot soup!

Comment from etinterrapax on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T23:37:11Z

It's supposed to make a terrific facial cleanser. I've used samples of commercial preparations that have a high percentage of olive oil, and they really do work incredibly well. If you've always had bad skin, it can take a little bit to get used to the feel of it, especially if you judge a good cleanser by how oilless your face feels afterwards. I agree about not leaving it on anything. WD-40 and Astroglide were invented for a reason. Not the same reason, though, God help us.

Comment from QuirkyRachel on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T23:29:27Z

Olive oil is really really healthy for you! I know people who have very sensitive skin and it's one of the few things that works for them. I use a wonderful method called the oil cleansing method. The anti-oxidents in olive oil, plus the anti-basterial element of castor oil, make for a great cleanser.
Still, I don't know about some of it. I mean, if you use good quality olive oil, it does have a scent that you might not want in certain things, like, uh, down there....

Comment from foghat81 on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T23:24:48Z

so *THIS* is why the Corleone family was in the olive oil business. Makes sense.

Comment from Brad2723 on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T23:17:19Z

There is a very good reason companies make specialized products that do all of the above... Especially personal lubricant. Then again, combine it with some Summer's Eve and you could be talking a pretty good salad dressing.

Comment from alk509 on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T23:00:33Z

Wood furniture polish

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! DON'T TRY IT!!! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THINKING ABOUT TRYING IT!!!

Olive oil oxidizes (goes rancid) within a couple of days of being left out in the open, and you really, really, REALLY don't want your furniture to smell like rancid olive oil. You'd be better off inserting a dead rat directly into your rhinencephalon. Not a smell you want to smell, let me tell you...

How do I know? Last year my wife tried out this little "helpful tip" on our bedroom's hardwood flooring, and it was months before The Stench™ went away.

Comment from Canadian Impostor on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T22:58:37Z

18. Fix a squeaky door. Use a rag or cotton swab to apply olive oil to the top of a problematic hinge in your home or automobile.

Mmmm rotten decomposed olive oil in your car door hinges, sounds great.

All of those ideas seem kind of bad.

Comment from timmus on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T22:58:17Z

26. Hair gel. For that 1950's greaser look.

Comment from Fuzz on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T22:36:25Z

@chipslave:

Ya, a guy I know said he needed some once and tried it . . . from then on, he sported the nickname "Olive Oil". Until he pissed in the closet drunk one night . . . then we came up with other names for him.

Guy was a real winner.

Comment from TVarmy on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T22:36:14Z

Couldn't you do 90% of this stuff with cheap vegetable oil?

Comment from chipslave on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T22:29:42Z

Personal lubricant? Wow...

Comment from acambras on 2007-06-15

2007-06-15T22:27:02Z

9. Stop Snoring. Take a sip of olive oil before heading to bed. It might lubricate your throat muscles, and stop yourself, or your partner, from snoring.

I am going to make my boyfriend drink olive oil before we go to sleep tonight!

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20. Personal Lubricant. It works…

Hopefully, people already know this, but one should never use any kind of oil-based lubricant with a condom - the latex will deteriorate. Only water-based!