Olive Oil Uses

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Paint clean-up
When your hands are covered in paint, sap or any other sticky substance that’s hard to remove, try scrubbing them with olive oil and a little salt or sugar. The paint will come right off and your skin will be soft and exfoliated.

Eye makeup remover

Furniture polish

Skin moisturizer
You might think using olive oil as a moisturizer would leave you with oily skin, but that’s not the case. Used in small amounts, it seeps in completely, eliminating dryness and reducing the appearance of wrinkles without clogging pores.

Shoe polish

Hinge lubricant

Bath oil
Add a few drops of your favorite essential oils to 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil and you’ve got a custom bath oil that will gently scent and moisturize your skin.

Stainless steel shine

Smooth shave
Slick and moisturizing, olive oil will help your razor glide along your skin for a super-close, smooth shave with fewer nicks.

Throat soother
Got a big singing performance or speech coming up? Swallow a tablespoon of olive oil just before you step on stage and you won’t have to clear your throat nearly as often. This trick also works to soothe itchy throats and lubricate the back of the mouth and tonsil area, which may lessen snoring.

Hair treatment
Sure, you could buy a fancy commercially-prepared hot oil treatment for your hair – or you could just grab the bottle of olive oil that’s already sitting on a shelf in your kitchen. Apply a few tablespoons of warmed olive oil to damp hair, massage into the scalp and rub through the ends, then leave it on for thirty minutes to an hour. The oil will clean and condition the scalp, soften the hair and help the cuticles lay down flat for a sleek look.

Ear ache relief

Sticker remover

Lice treatment

Hairball prevention

Lamp fuel
A blizzard just hit, the power’s out and you realized that you’re out of batteries and candles. Do you just sit around in the dark? No, you grab that bottle of olive oil – because by now you should know that it’s an absolute essential in your life – and use it to fuel a lamp. You can purchase specially made olive oil lamps, or simply pour it into a glass jar, poke a hole into the jar lid and insert an oil lamp wick.

Chewing gum remover

Leather conditioner
Just as it cleans and restores leather shoes, olive oil can be used to re-condition cracked, dry leather items like baseball gloves, car seats and saddles. It takes a bit longer to fully penetrate the leather than most conventional conditioners, but it works.


Psoriasis and diaper rash treatment

Personal lubricant

Hay! Alfalfa

I have been posting about Joe Curtis being a ranch hand in Range Creek and showing a better way to get rid of greasewoods with a team of horses to clear land for growing alfalfa.  Hay or alfalfa is important to a farmer or rancher.  It's important if you grow alfalfa and it's important if you use alfalfa to feed livestock.  We most always had hay at the ranch at Woodside.  Even I loaded hay on a pickup to haul to Woodside to feed horses.  My uncle Russel didn't grow alfalfa but he had a hay baler that he had bought I guess at a good price.  He would supplement his income by baling hay for others who raised alfalfa but did not have a baler.  I'm not sure whether he had a rake for hay or not but I'm sure he had a baler.  So alfalfa figures in the lives of many of the descendant's of Joseph the 1st or Joseph B. Curtis who we know as Joseph Augustus Curtis, Sr.  I guess we could say here, "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree". 
Nicholas Curtis
Joseph the 4th.

A real treat. Joseph the 1st

I feel those of you who took the time and effort to come to this blog are in for a real treat.  I was able to find the article that mentions Joe Curtis on the net.  Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 79, number 1, p. 27. (Winter 2011)

First go to http://www.history.utah.gov/

Then click on the Learn & Research tab
It will bring up a drop down menu
Click on Publications
You can now do a search
Search the Utah Historical Quarterly
Search for "Joe Curtis"
It brings up about 182 hits
The first one is the one we want
Just click on it and you are there
You may have to navigate to the article about Range Creek
Joe Curtis is mentioned on page 27.


Here is the paragraph that mentions Joe Curtis.

   When Allen departed, Wing took over managing the ranch as well as overseeing the farming tasks near the ranch headquarters.  His cousin Charley Wing, who arrived in July 186, ran the cattle operation while Joe oversaw the farm near the ranch headquarters.  Besides building a cabin, a corral, a blacksmith shop, and a chicken coop, Joe Wing and his ranch hands were heavily involved in alfalfa farming.  At first the men tried clearing the native greasewood and sagebrush with hoes--backbreaking work--but ranch hand Joe Curtis showed them how to hitch a big roller to a team of horses and break the brush.  The large piles of it were then burned.


Footnote: Joseph B. Curtis testimony, Heirs of Joseph E. Wing.

Joseph B. Curtis in Range Creek. Joseph the 1st.

Range Creek is where the rancher protected and kept secret for 50 years the location of Native American ruins and petroglyphs.  I have been to Range Creek at least twice.  I have met Waldo Wilcox at least once.  Waldo is the rancher that kept the secret for 50 years about Range Creek.  When it was revealed and sold to the state it made international headlines.

Now the history of Range Creek is told in a recent article in the Utah Historical Quarterly.  I went to the Main Library in Salt Lake City and was looking at the current issue of the Quarterly.  In the back it had an index for the current volume.  Range Creek showed up in the index so after some consideration I thought I would take a look.  There were actually three articles related to that area in the Quarterly.  The issue in question is Volume 79, Number 1.  I believe that is the Winter 2011 issue.  I read the article about Range Creek written by a man whose surname is Gerber whose family lived on Rock Creek but also bought some land at the lower end of Range Creek.  He wrote a concise yet thorough article and I believe very accurate.

In the article he mentioned the character who took part in the history and controversy surrounding Range Creek.  There was some question of ownership and who did what and when they did it.  Preston Nutter apparently used some slight of hand to gain or retain control over the area.  This led to some legal maneuvering by him and others.

Anyway, I remember my father Max, who is Joseph the 3rd, say more than once that John Darioli built the first road in Range Creek.  He had to have gotten this information from Joseph the 1st either directly or indirectly from Joseph the 2nd, who is Dode.  John Darioli was one of the adversaries of Preston Nutter as he homesteaded 160 acres at the lower end of Range Creek and had a lawyer from Helper who was also Italian help him.  I can't go into all the detail right now for space and also memory and I refer you to the article.  I will tell you how Joseph B. Curtis, Joe, figures in Range Creek.

I had met Mr. Gerber at the Main Library before maybe about a year ago when he participated in a seminar about Range Creek.  I talked to him after and he mention an affidavit where there was a Curtis involved.  I figured it must be Joe.  Joe was one of the first settlers of Woodside.  I figured there was a Range Creek connection but I didn't know exactly what it was.  In the article it talks about the manager of the ranch, who was Joseph E. Wing, and his brother getting rid of greasewoods and sagebrush by using a hoe.  Joe Curtis, who was a ranch hand, showed them a better way.. they hooked up a couple of horses to a roller and  made it a lot easier.  They then burned the piles or brush.  One thing that was interesting is that Joseph Wing was a pioneer in growing alfalfa and wrote some articles about it.  Getting rid of the greasewoods and sagebrush was in preparing the land for growing alfalfa.  So a ranch hand had to show the manager how to do a job better.  In a previous post I told about how Joe was one of the best ditch diggers in the west.  It was sure exciting to learn the details of Joe Curtis and his involvement in Range Creek.  I didn't know that he was a ranch hand there.  This was before Preston Nutter came on the scene.

I was also impressed that on the affidavit Joe was referred to as Joseph B. Curtis.  I know that is how it shows up on the Springville LDS Ward records where he was born and lived for awhile.  But we know him as Joseph Augustus Curtis, Sr.  So I don't know where the name Augustus came from or what happened to his initial B.  This is all in a document referred to in the footnotes as Heirs of Joseph E. Wing vs John Darioli. So I'll have to see if I can get hold of that issue of the Quarterly and the document referred to.
Nicholas, Joseph the 4th.