From ancient times, popular beliefs gave olive oil healing properties and provide lot of benefits to human health. At the time, great classical physicians such Hippocrates, Galen of Pergamon or Dioscorides drafted treaties about it.

At present time, thanks to numerous advances and investigations about the oil aspects these old theories began confirmed and demonstrating such properties as true.

The list of healthy aspects of olive oil consumption and avantages of its cutaneous application, especially virgin olive oil, has expanded and spread around the world in recent years, placing olive oil as the main standard-bearer of the Mediterranean diet and as a top quality natural product.