Olive Oil

So I know that we all have our own personal quirks when it comes to hair and skin. For many of us over the years we have found our own remedies for each season or products that work for us. My all time favorite beauty ingredient of the winter when my skin and hair are at their driest is olive oil. There are many uses for it but I am going to give you my top three favorite olive oil uses.

The first is as a hot oil treatment. you can make as much of this as you need for the amount of hair you have and how dry it is. The ratio is 1/2 cup olive oil to 2 table spoons Honey. Heat it up in the microwave mix it up put it on your head and put a shower cap or saran wrap over your head and leave it sit for 20 min. Then rinse it out with hot water. Your hair might appear greasy for a day or so but then you will have super soft hair.

Use number 2 is a cuticle softener. Just place some olive oil in a dish heat it up in the microwave then apply it to your cuticles let it sit for a few minutes then take your cuticle pusher or clipper and take care of those cuticles as you see fit. Just a note if you do this and then are going to paint your nails make sure you take some nail polish remover to your nail to get rid of the access oil even if you have no nail polish on to insure that the polish stays where you want it to.

My third and final use is just as a lotion. This should only be done if your skin is really dry. My recamendation is that you shower at night and then apply the olive oil to those dry places (for me in the winter that is everywhere) Then allow the night for it to soak into your skin. It works wonders for me anyways.

My biblical connection today is kind of a stretch by that I mean this entry might seem a little disjointed. The Refined Beauty DTS is going to be run alongside 2 other schools in March, The Urban DTS as well as the Basketball DTS. That is a lot to be going on at the same time. We are going to need prayers to stay united both as the staff of the different schools as well as the students. That our communication would not be confused or missed. That the Lord would be in all that we do. 

Psalm 133: 1-3 

How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. It is like precious oil poured on the head running down on the beard. Running down on Aaron's beard down the collar of his robe. It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life evermore.

In other translations it says there God commands his blessing. Where there is unity and I don't want to miss out on that blessing. I want this school, all of them to be blessed. So please pray for the unity of these schools, we need it!

And try out these fabulous uses for olive oil!

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