Sacha wrote:
Thinking of the Frances Mayes books, as I was a while ago, I remember her
writing that her husband took a pudding spoon of olive oil every morning,
presumably for the benefit of his internal clockwork. And I think it was
she who wrote that Italian women used to use it as skin nourishment. Has
anyone here any experience of either? I rather like the idea of a much
cheaper version of Clarins in my kitchen cupboard!

When our daughter was tiny and nearly bald an Italian neighbour
advised us to shave her head and rub olive oil into her scalp, and in
no time at all she would have a lovely head of glossy black hair.
Needless to say her hair remained wispy and blonde ;~)

It had worked for all of the Sicilians on the nursery where I worked
at the time - no idea why :~(
Oh, except for the one with red hair.