I don't remember how many parts was extra virgin or virgin and how much was pomace. I have thrown the bottle already. First of all, I am not sure if it actually is pomace at all, or if pomace is something that is sold here. Nothing has that description on the bottles. Usually the low grades are extracted by heat.
Aha! I found out. Pomace is a grade we do have in Norway, but it's not legal to mark that as olive oil. It has to be called something else, cooking oil or something. And pomace is not normally sold in supermarket. Most sold to restaurants and other customers with special needs.
The oil I bought was marked as an olive oil, so it was for sure not any pomace in the blend. It must have been refined olive oil mixed with some cold pressed oil. It was very cheap, so it was for sure more than 70% refined, or more.
Yes, it's a sort of blender like that I have, but not so fancy. It's some old plastic crap. But I ordered a stick blender yesterday. A very powerful one, 800 watt. And it had a separate container to chop up stuff. I will definetely need that for the next soap I will make, an oatmeal and apricot soap.
I ordered some essential oils from England. I got a letter yesterday, and thought it had arrived. But no, the bloody customs have STOPPED the parcel, and demanded documentation. Grr! It's almost not possible to order anything from abroad anymore. So now, my precious oils (that I found for cheap, except the true sandalwood), are going to take forever to arrive. And I am sure they will send me a hefty bill, charging VAT and everything. The sandalwood is the one I am waiting hardest for. I will use it as a perfume, and not put a single drop of it in any soap. It was not cheap.
The next time I find something to order, I must ask the companies to wrap it in gift paper and write "Happy birthday" all over the parcel. That should work. I got a parcel from the Chech Republic that was a fake birthday gift, and it went straight thru customs. We are not full members of the EU, that's why everything has to go thru customs in the first place.
Okey, then our toll road system is not as bad after all. At least we don't have different systems from town to town (we have almost no big cities) and they bill you only once. But I think it would be a lot better with a little extra tax on every single person, and free roads everywhere.
I have seen on TV that you have roads with lighting in the middle! Like in the asphalt. These roads here are very narrow, almost no lights nowhere, and very, very much bends. In fact, there is very few straight roads. In the south of the country, maybe, but definately not here in the north. These roads are actually dangerous, but we are so used to them, so we manage and drive like normal. But the tourists, they are really scared and drive really slow. When we drive in 90 km/h in the summer, the tourists drive in 50 km/h. But other tourists again, they are cycling! And that is really, really dangerous. I don't dare to cycle along this narrow roads with heavy traffic and corners everywhere, absolutely not. It's actually a miracle that all this tourists survive the holiday.
Aha! I found out. Pomace is a grade we do have in Norway, but it's not legal to mark that as olive oil. It has to be called something else, cooking oil or something. And pomace is not normally sold in supermarket. Most sold to restaurants and other customers with special needs.
The oil I bought was marked as an olive oil, so it was for sure not any pomace in the blend. It must have been refined olive oil mixed with some cold pressed oil. It was very cheap, so it was for sure more than 70% refined, or more.
Yes, it's a sort of blender like that I have, but not so fancy. It's some old plastic crap. But I ordered a stick blender yesterday. A very powerful one, 800 watt. And it had a separate container to chop up stuff. I will definetely need that for the next soap I will make, an oatmeal and apricot soap.
I ordered some essential oils from England. I got a letter yesterday, and thought it had arrived. But no, the bloody customs have STOPPED the parcel, and demanded documentation. Grr! It's almost not possible to order anything from abroad anymore. So now, my precious oils (that I found for cheap, except the true sandalwood), are going to take forever to arrive. And I am sure they will send me a hefty bill, charging VAT and everything. The sandalwood is the one I am waiting hardest for. I will use it as a perfume, and not put a single drop of it in any soap. It was not cheap.
The next time I find something to order, I must ask the companies to wrap it in gift paper and write "Happy birthday" all over the parcel. That should work. I got a parcel from the Chech Republic that was a fake birthday gift, and it went straight thru customs. We are not full members of the EU, that's why everything has to go thru customs in the first place.
Okey, then our toll road system is not as bad after all. At least we don't have different systems from town to town (we have almost no big cities) and they bill you only once. But I think it would be a lot better with a little extra tax on every single person, and free roads everywhere.
I have seen on TV that you have roads with lighting in the middle! Like in the asphalt. These roads here are very narrow, almost no lights nowhere, and very, very much bends. In fact, there is very few straight roads. In the south of the country, maybe, but definately not here in the north. These roads are actually dangerous, but we are so used to them, so we manage and drive like normal. But the tourists, they are really scared and drive really slow. When we drive in 90 km/h in the summer, the tourists drive in 50 km/h. But other tourists again, they are cycling! And that is really, really dangerous. I don't dare to cycle along this narrow roads with heavy traffic and corners everywhere, absolutely not. It's actually a miracle that all this tourists survive the holiday.
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