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Olive Oil

Olive Oil.

Olive Oil
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About this product

A plant-based oil derived from olives, used in skincare products as a moisturizing and conditioning ingredient.

Best for

Dry skin
Serums

The Guru Index verdict

49%

Mixed

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What the gurus are saying

Dermatologists across the board advise against olive oil for skin and scalp use. The consensus is that it feeds malassezia yeast, worsening dandruff, seborrheic dermatitis, and tinea versicolor, while also being pro-inflammatory and failing to support skin barrier health. Gurus note it may increase water loss and irritation rather than hydrate.
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What the gurus are saying.

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"I'd say olive oil do not do olive oil can actually worsen scalp itch scalp dandruff because the main player behind scalp dandruff and actually flares in your scalp psoriasis is this yeast called malassezia. The special yeast, when you add olive oil to the media, it grows in the lab and cultures malassezia. So I would say do not put olive oil onto your scalp for hair loss because that will just be fertilizer or food for the malassezia and it'll proliferate come down to your face even come down to your body."
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"Olive oil is essentially a petri dish for malassia yeast. This is why it makes dandruff worse, this is why it makes sebic dermatitis worse, this is why it makes tinea versicolor worse. If you're using olive oil as a moisturizer, it's actually going to feed this yeast and make it worse. Olive oil as a solo ingredient has really no utility and no place on your skin for multiple reasons: pro-inflammatory, does not help the skin barrier, it is literally the food for this yeast."
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"I would caution you against going to the grocery store and buying olive oil and putting it on your skin, it may actually end up leading to more water loss, more dryness, more irritation for you. There's just no evidence that it's helpful, and the research and clinical experience we have actually suggests that it's not very good for your skin."
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