[email protected] wrote: > 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.
This is not really true, same source, but they are not processed the same: The seeds contain around 35 to 44 percent of drying oil. In eastern Europe, the seed is generally first cold pressed, the cold-press oil being used in foods. A later hot press yields additional industrial oil. In the U.S., oil extraction is generally hot press, followed by solvent extraction, and the oil is not used as food. The press cake from hot pressing is a valuable livestock feed. In America linseed oil for painting is also sometimes acid refined. Marshall
