Full-grain leather, similarly to human epidermis, responds well to care. Natural oils can be used to prevent the development of patina. The best oils for a nourishing oil treatment of the leather are sunflower oil, linseed oil or the unassumed 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 during the blending process, is the highest quality oil in terms of both 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, just north of the Mediterranean, a golden oil is also pressed. Its source is the rapeseed, which cheerfully blooms in vast yellow fields. Cold-pressed and unrefined, it is gold in a bottle!

It surpasses its southern cousin in terms of health properties. Going back to the essential omega-3 fatty acids, their total content is around 1% in olive oil, compared to 10% in unrefined rapeseed oil. Not only is this the highest content of these acids among the vegetable fats available, but rapeseed oil is also the only one in which omega-6 and omega-3 are present in the ideal for human health 2:1 ratio (which is very important, as an excess 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 properties.

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