Olive oil on a damp sponge mop is a one-step cleaner & polisher for hardwood floors

I started with badly scuffed hardwood floors. From years of rolling office chairs back and forth, first the typewriter on the desk, then the computer. The wood had worn down to its bare, raw wood condition. Without sanding and staining the old 1950s hardwood floors, I took a dampened sponge mop, spilled a half cup at a time of the extra virgin olive oil (large bottle for about $14 at Sam’s Club) on the living room, foyer, and bedroom hardwood floors, and mopped the floors with a wet sponge against the thick olive oil on the floors.

hardwood-floor-cleaned-with-olive-oilMiraculously, almost, the damp sponge mop covered with olive oil not only rolled the stray dog hairs into a roll that easily could be picked up, but also took off the dirt and at the same time polished the hardwood floor to a Victorian-era shine. The next step focused on the micro fiber cloth on a waxing mop to soak up the excess oil after the olive oil had been soaking in the wood for two hours.