Olive oil is basically fruit oil that is acquired through the traditional olive tree plant. Olive oil is very commonly used in various day to day routine functions. Olive oil has its extensive use in cooking, health and medicine, pharmacy products, cosmetics like soaps. Olive oil is considered to be extremely healthy oil as it has a quality content of polyphenols and mono-unsaturated fats.
Olive oil is produced through the grinding of the olives into a paste. This is done through large stones. The paste is usually pressurized under these stones for half an hour or more. The olive oil paste that is obtained is systematically stretched upon the fibers that are arranged on top each other. These fibers are arranged on disks and pressure has to be executed on these disks to extract olive oil from the olive paste.
Olive oil is believed to offer many health benefits and is used to cure some important ailments. It has an extensive application in medicines thereby. But besides medicines olive oil is very versatile oil that is used in soap making, religious rituals, in oil lamps as a fuel and in cosmetics as a skin care agent.
