Facing leather, like our epidermis, responds well to care. If we want to stop the patina acquiring, natural oils can be used for this purpose. The best oils for a nourishing oiling treatment are sunflower oil, linseed oil or the unassuming hero - rapeseed oil. What about olive oil?

Like whisky, it is sometimes called single malt. It is pressed from olives of a single variety, sometimes from a single olive grove, and no oil of any other origin is added. Studies confirm that oil pressed from a single variety, processed locally and not oxidised by blending, is the highest quality oil both in terms of health and sensory qualities. Local production also reduces the carbon footprint and contributes to the preservation of ancient olive groves in Mediterranean countries.

Speaking of local production, a little north of the Mediterranean also presses healthfully beneficial golden oil. Its source is the rapeseed, which blooms with joyful yellow. Cold-pressed and unrefined, it is true gold in a bottle!

In terms of health properties ... surpasses its southern cousin. Coming back to omega-3 essential fatty acids - their total content in olive oil is about 1%, while in unrefined rapeseed oil it is 10%. Not only is this the highest content of these acids found among the available vegetable fats - rapeseed oil is also the only one in which omega-6 and omega-3 are present in the ideal 2-to-1 ratio for human health (which is very important, as an over-supply of omega-6 has a pro-inflammatory effect).
Although it does not contain polyphenols, it makes up for this by containing ADEK vitamins, which also have anti-cancer effects.

So let's take a kinder look at this good-hearted hero in a bottle!