Comments on: Olive Oil: The ultimate hair conditioner

By: funny

funny — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:20:22 +0000

@ Sandy: My goodness! My grandmother’s name was Olive, too! And even more amazingly, my dearest childhood friend was named Sandy.

What a good idea for using olive oil as a conditioner. Thanks for sharing.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:06:41 +0000

My middle name is Olive; I am named after my wise grandmother; I figured if both of us sported the name, then olive oil must be good. My hair is ’short’ and professionally colored; however, dry winter air has been drying it out, causing the color to appear less intense and attractive. I had no conditioner on hand………..so……….I tried the olive oil, which I’d seen somewhere on tv; used only a couple tablespoons oil in a coffee cup of warm water, poured it over freshly shampooed hair, let it set for a minute. Then washed as normal with mild shampoo. My ‘color’ returned! Granted, it is a little ‘heavier’ than usual, but will shampoo better the second time in a couple days. And I love it!!! Returns the sheen, the color, and tames my natural curls. So cool

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:23:46 +0000

Olive oil has been from several years for healthy hair. In any spa or hair stylist salon you find olive oil. It is because of it’s medicinal values that it is used so much.

By: funny

funny — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:06:13 +0000

That’s very interesting! I wonder how the grapeseed oil worked in comparison with olive oil?

It would be interesting to know, too, if anyone has experimented with ordinary cooking oil. Would Mazola (corn oil) or safflower oil do the same thing?

By: Chloe

Chloe — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:57:04 +0000

Tried this several times and experimented a little too. Result–works great both ways–on fresh shampooed hair and on dry hair. Also tried Grapeseed Oil as well as Olive Oil. Grapeseed oil was cheaper if purchased at a mediterranean market.

By: funny

funny — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:08:40 +0000

LOL! Seriously, you might want to come up with some more gracious nom-de-plume, no matter what you think of yourself.

If washing the oil out of my hair had left it “stripped” (heh!), I wouldn’t have written this post. Would I have?

By: slut

slut — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:19:45 +0000

Seriously, this is the dumbest thing I ever heard. Do you know by time you have to wash your hair for the hundreth time because your hair still feels like a grease bucket you’ve already stripped your hair of all of its potency. olive oil should be rubbed in the same time as the shampoo then you wouldn’t even need the conditioner really.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:48:45 +0000

I love this Olive Oil treatment. i’ve read about it in various magazines and tried it for the first time last night. But what i did differently was that I put in the olive oil first on my dry hair, since water becomes a barrier between your hair and anything you put on it, left it in for about 10 minutes, then thoroughly shampooed it out. it was just a little experiment but it worked amazingly. before my hair was becoming dry and felt damaged due to all the straightening i do to it, now it couldn’t be anymore silkier!

By: Dunsa

Dunsa — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:04:04 +0000

This is one of the best hair treatments I give myself if my hair is very dry. I’ve tried numerous other hair masks and expensive treatments but somehow “olive oil” works best on my hair, it’s naturally frizzy/curly so I have to use a heat straightener everyday before oing to work. It really works!!!!

By: funny

funny — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:55:05 +0000

@ Madeleine: Glad to hear it worked! Sometimes after your hair is dry, the effect is a little oily. It can take a fair amount of shampooing to get the olive oil out. I find the split-end improvement seems to last for a while. Don’t know why that is, but what the heck: whatever works, works.