Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil

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Oil

Skin Benefit

Conditioning oil base for Garden Blossom and Marbled Charcoal. Cleans well, leaves skin complete.

Spiritual Benefit

Olive oil used in bathing since antiquity, central to Mediterranean ritual washing traditions.

The record

In use for 5,000+ years

Origin

The Mediterranean basin, where the tree outlives its farmers.

Harvested

Olives are milled and cold-pressed, the first press yielding the finest oil.

Cultural impact

Athletes of Greece oiled and scraped their skin with it, Rome lit and washed with it, and scripture anointed with it. The Mediterranean ran on this oil.

Traditional use

The original skin oil, rubbed on daily, scraped off with a strigil, and worked into the first true soaps.

From the Field Notes

All field notes