Jump to Navigation   The fire hazards of flax seed oil.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.herbs Subject: Re: Dry Skin From:
douglas.wiggins.nwcs.org (Douglas Wiggins) Date: Sun, 14 May
1995 06:10:00 GMT  > few people (but there are some) that had
problems with good flax oil, which has a nutty taste. About 3
weeks ago, I bought some -cut- I went and tasted the oil
directly from the bottle. Tasted awful. The store I purchased
the oil from had not kept the oil in the fridge.  Just a note of
caution: if tempted to throw out flax seed oil (linseed oil), be
careful that it does not end up on cloth or paper in a
receptacle - this is the stuff that fire departments warn about
when they say to avoid oily rags in the garage, as a source of
spontaneous combustion (they are not referring to motor oil);
flax-seed (linseed) oil was once used as a base for oil paints,
and alone as a varnish, because it is a "drying" oil, which
means that it reacts with the atmosphere to polymerize, forming
a plastic-like material - the process rele