Experiment turns olive oil into soaps, lotions
By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee
A graduate of UC Davis is helping her alma mater produce soaps and lotions made with olive oil from campus trees.
The olive oil based body-care products — lotion, soap, body butter and lip balm — are now on sale at the UC Davis bookstore. Proceeds will support the UC Davis Olive Center’s research and education program.
The olive oil used in the products, which range in price from $4 to $12.95 each, would otherwise have gone to waste.