How to use olive oil to reduce wrinkles

Find out all the benefits of olive oil for a smoother and younger skin

Already known as “liquid gold” since the Romans and Greeks times, olive oil is also famous thanks to its many and very various therapeutic properties and, in particular, for skincare. In fact, extra virgin olive oil was considered, and still is, a true beauty elixir and it was used on a daily basis to soften skin&hair and of course to try to get a younger face by fighting wrinkles.

Through the next years, always more and more, people started asking how to use olive oil against wrinkles and which would be the other beneficial effects olive oil could possible have on our body; thus giving rise to in-depth studies and specific research, which then led to the creation of olive oil based cosmetic lines, specifically created for skincare and, in particular, for the face.

EVO oil is a goldmine for the care of our skin; in fact, thanks to the such precious elements such as vitamin E, vitamin A, oleic acids and polyphenols, it can nourish and enrich the skin with such hydrating, toning and antioxidant properties.
Would you like some examples on the benefic action of extra virgin oil on our skin? Well, here we go!
It fights free radicals, it makes the skin smoother and more elastic, it helps the skin hydration and it helps skin regeneration, preventing and treating the formation of wrinckles, thus protecting the skin from atmospheric agents and fighting the first signs of aging.

Premature aging could occur thanks to some factors that are strictly linkes to our skin and therefore does not depend on external agents; sometimes could happen that our skin doesn not produce enough squalene, a molecule capable of maintaining a good level the hydration of the skin, with antioxidant and anti-aging properties, capable of slowing down the oxidative damage caused to the skin of the face as the time goes by. Luckly, this squalene molecule can be easily found in olives, and of course in olive oil, and this specif reason is one of the most important why to start using extra virgin olive oil against face wrinkles.

To truly benefit from all the countless benefits that olive oil offers, it would be good thing to use it on a daily basis and the next treatment we are going to share with you is also the easiest one;
just put a few drops of pure evo olive oil on a cotton pad and gently rub it on your face, which needs to be well cleansed and dry.
By putting olive oil on direct contact with the skin of your face, its antioxidant and smoothing actions will penetrate deeply, slowing down the normal aging of the skin and the appearance of the first wrinkles.

Another advice we would love to share with you is that, if you want to get a longer effect on the skin, olive oil should be also used, al least once a week, as the main product while practising some anti-aging face massages.
This is how we at Frantoio Bonamini get our weekly anti-aging face massage done: first we spread a teaspoon of extravirgin olive oil on our face and then we go ahead with these next 5 easy steps:

1. from the chin we start drawing small circles with our fingertips all along the length of the jaw and up to the base of the ears
2. to fight nasolabial wrinkles we then move to the center of the face placing our index and middle fingers on the sides of the mouth, pressing to move the fingers up to the cheekbones, stretching the wrinkles outwards
3. we start again with circular movements from the first step but this time by starting from the cheekbones and going up to the temples
4. we move again towards the center of the face and place the fingertips on the sides of the nose, going, with a light pressure, up to the forehead and continuing along the entire eyebrow arch
5. in the end, we cannot and don’t want to miss it, we dedicate some time also to the neck, strating from the collarbones and going up, with always circular movements, till the chin

Once we are done with the massage, good thing is to dab the face with a cotton pad to get rid of the excess olive oil.

From the awareness of the in-depth properties and benefits of olive oil on the body, and in particular on facial wrinkles, our line of cosmetics with extra virgin olive oil was born which, thanks to the combination of our precious evo oils with 100% natural ingredients, ensures a unique and intensive treatment, capable of revitalizing, repairing and illuminating the skin; and, not only when trying to fight wrinkles, but also in case of irritation, dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis.

We look forward to seeing you on our e-commerce or at the “Bottega del Frantoio” our store, to discover all the products of the Bonamini Cosmesi Line and to start your new emotional and anti-wrinkle skincare ritual together!