Our story
The oldest idea in skincare.
Before labs, preservatives and fine print, olive oil fed bodies and skin alike. We built a brand on that.
The belief
What you put on your body is as important as what you put in it.
Olive + M was founded on that belief, and it still governs every product we create. It shows up in four ways.
The kitchen test
Safe enough to eat
Every ingredient passes the kitchen test. If we wouldn't put it near food, it doesn't go on skin.
The short list
Dense with nutrients
Each botanical earns its place with vitamins, antioxidants and fatty acids. No filler.
The sensory experience
Engages the senses
Silky, not greasy. Quick to absorb. Scented by plants themselves. Never artificial fragrances.
The recipe
Time tested and perfected
Each product begins with cold-pressed olive oil and is blended with proprietary botanical medleys, the perfect recipe for each specific need.
The record
Nourishing skin for over two thousand years.
2000 BCE
Egypt
Olive oil enters skincare history — used by queens like Cleopatra as a moisturizer and beauty ritual staple.
800-150 BCE
Greece
Called "liquid gold" athletes and physicians (including Hippocrates) relied on it for skin protection and healing.
150 BCE-400 CE
Rome
Roman Empire — olive oil becomes a daily beauty essential — used to soften skin, remove makeup, and prevent aging.
1400-1600 CE
Renaissance Italy
Apothecaries in Florence build herbal remedies around olive oil, elevating it from folk remedy to formulated skincare.
Today
Your shelf
Still a staple of European skincare. Olive + M brings it stateside, pairing cold-pressed olive oil with potent botanical medleys for deeper benefits and scents you'll actually love.
The source
Resilient trees make resilient skin.
Our olive oil comes from old family groves in Tunisia, hand-harvested and cold-pressed the way it's been done for a hundred generations. This stretch of the Mediterranean is harsh. Intense sun, dry ground, dramatic temperature swings. Trees under that kind of stress produce more of their own protective compounds, creating oils rich in oleic acid and polyphenols.
Tunisia holds some of the oldest continuously cultivated groves on earth: deep-rooted, slow-growing, still pressed by hand.
Cold-pressed in Tunisia, carried from grove to skin
The beginning
It started in a kitchen.
In 2013, our founder, a chef by training, went looking for skincare with ingredients she recognized at prices she could justify. It didn't exist. So she started blending in her Austin kitchen, treating skincare like cooking. Olive oil as the base, a short list of whole ingredients around it.
Friends asked for more. Then their friends did. Olive + M grew out of that kitchen the honest way, one bottle at a time.
