linseed oil as sold in hardware stores is for use as oil coating or mixed with paint as the glue to hold pigment together. Have used hundreds of gallons. It is boiled. Raw linseed oil will not dry and is used as wood preservative. These ore pressed and solvents used to extract max oil.
Flaxseed oil name used for cold pressed and used on or in people. Reports of cataracts being helped is with cold pressed flax oil. Use of linseed oil for paint could do real harm. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Dudley To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:24 PM Subject: Re: CS>Cataracts That is correct, it is lye, the main ingredient in most drain cleaners. Marshall James Holmes wrote: Not being picky, but with concern for those with little chemistry knowledge: sodium hydroxide is a strong base, and the polar opposite of an acid -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 11:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>Cataracts Hi Marv, It's my understanding that flaxseed oil and linseed oil are the same thing. You can spend the long buck and buy flaxseed oil at the health food store or you can buy the same exact thing at the hardware store for a hell of a lot less. DMSO is like that. Health food store vs. feed store = big markup. It's all marketing. I'm sure this won't make me very popular with some folks on the list but, Oh well. The next time you are at the grocery store, look at Tilex. It is watered down bleach (sodium hypochloride). At the hardware store, look at JASCO driveway cleaners. It's watered down swimming pool acid (sodium hydroxide). I think there are only about a dozzen or so chemicals that the public are allowed to buy and they are sold under hundreds if not thousands of different trade names. There are probably issues about purity, but consider the source. Most of the stuff out there comes from the same vat. It has water and die added to it and a new smaller container and a very expensive lable. Best wishes, Andy From: Marv Hacker Hi, Brickey, I gather that you actually used linseed oil. I do not know much about these oils. Are you saying that: + flaxseed oil would be preferred, + either oil would work fine, + or that the two oils are actually the same. Thanks, :) Marv
