Yesterday, I posted about my frustrations and quests with finding more cost efficent ways of purchasing the olive oil I need for my soaps and skin care line. I have spent alot of time hunting down manufactures and requesting information for wholesale and minimum ordering ect.

I was amazed and a bit annoyed, probably even more frustrated than I was to discover, certian manufactures of olive oil refuse to sell their olive oil to people to make cosmetics. One manufactures reasoning was that their process is a high qaulity process of producing the best qaulity olive oil and did not want it in cosmetics. WHAT!? Because, their orchards are in California and they process and press their olives here, rather than sending them to europe and yada yada yada. That's rediculous! The european method of cold pressing olive oil is the same as the method here, so that didn't even make sence. Anyhoo, so the quest for wholesale olive oil continues!