Hands down the best natural care product for you skin and hair is OLIVE OIL!

This miracle oil works on all hair and skin types. My grandmother is over 85 years old and she's used olive oil on her hands and skin for years - and she still at 85 has soft supple healthy looking skin!

If your hair is dry or over processed - heating up a bit of olive oil and combing it through your hair can work wonders as a hot oil treatment. Beachcombers and sun worshippers - if you are going to be out in the sun, no matter what your hair type it's best to put some olive oil in your hair and put it in a braid or just comb it through your hair before you are going to be in the sun. It will be a bit oily but your hair will soak it in. The Sun will heat up the oil and allow the oil to penetrate like a hot oil treatment. The sun can damage your hair just as it can damage your skin so it is important to protect them both from the harmful rays of the sun. Hemp seed oil, Shea Butter, Macadamia oil, Sesame seed oil, Jojoba oil, and Coconut oil all have low levels of natural SPF's in them. There are products available (I use Alba Botanica) that are water resistant and hypo-allergenic that will protect you from both UVA & UVB rays without clogging up your pores or filling them with chemicals that harm your skin.

Also everyone's hair needs protection from chlorine... getting your hair wet and putting a few drops of oil in your hair before going in the pool will protect your hair from soaking up the chlorine. Hair is like a sponge if you let it soak up the chlorine water first it can damage your hair - getting it wet and putting something good into it - will create a barrier to the chlorine. Same goes for your skin. The best time to put oils and lotions on your skin is when it's wet. Before you towel off put some Olive oil, or oil of your choice on your skin and your skin will eat up the nutrients and hold in the moisture, creating a barrier from environmental toxins - this is especially important if you are a smoker... The reason your fingers turn yellow is because your skin is soaking in the nicotine.

Now I am southern Italian so I'm not prone to burning - so I love to put olive oil on my skin before I go out in the sun. Skin like hair is also like a sponge, it will soak in what it can. It's best to put something on your hair and skin that it can feed on in a healthy way - just like you are what you eat - you are what you put on your skin and hair as well.

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