15 Household Uses for Olive Oil

Olive oil isn't just for cooking. Here are 15 more ways you can use it.

1. Use it instead moisturizer - Using a little bit of olive oil will leave your skin looking shiny and feeling smooth.
2. Replace with butter - When cooking, try adding a little bit of olive oil instead of butter for a healthier and better tasting meal.
3. Spray on food - Spray on salad and breads, great way to get a small amount of fat/oil on foods for those of us who are watching our weight.
4. Floor polish - Mix three parts lemon and one part vinegar for well working wood polish.
5. Furniture polish - Try mixing two parts olive oil and one part lemon juice or vinegar for a furniture polish.
6. Lice control - Use olive oil in lice infested hair to get rid of those little creeps.
7. Use olive oil as shaving cream and makeup remover.
8. Stop snoring - a teaspoon of olive oil will get rid of snoring, or so I've heard... works with coughs too.
9. Use approx. three tablespoons for bath oil
10. Shine stainless steel - Use oil to safely and effectively polish stainless steal and chrome
11. Add to cat food - Add about 1/5 of a teaspoon olive oil to help put a stop to hairballs
12. Use as a Lubricant - Silence squeaky hinges on doors and cupboards by applying olive oil and rubbing it in with a cloth
13. Cure earaches - Apply a little bit of olive oil to a cotton swab to rid yourself of earaches and excess wax
14. Shoe polish - Rub your shoes down with just a bit of olive oil to make them shine and look like new again
15. Hair tonic - Comb olive oil through hair, and wash off after an hour or two