Thread: Question about Camellia Oil

hmmm, all I can say is $1ml oil definitely deserves a sword to go with it.

Is there in general only one viscosity available in pure camellia? I'd be interested to learn when and how the transition to mineral oil based choji occurred and why it seems to be so complete. Just seems rather odd from this side of the world- I seriously doubt anyone had mineral oil 500 years ago.

I don't think samurai would be easy going enough to have their swords all gummed up with tsubaki or oxidized by pure choji. The easy solution might just be frequent cleaning with tsubaki, and it's limitation led to a ready transition to mineral

Originally Posted by kevint

hmmm, all I can say is $1ml oil definitely deserves a sword to go with it.

Maybe if Pope Benedict XVI blended and blessed it himself, it would be worth $1 per ml.

Originally Posted by kevint

Is there in general only one viscosity available in pure camellia?

I have no idea.

Originally Posted by kevint

I'd be interested to learn when and how the transition to mineral oil based choji occurred and why it seems to be so complete. Just seems rather odd from this side of the world- I seriously doubt anyone had mineral oil 500 years ago.

I don't think samurai would be easy going enough to have their swords all gummed up with tsubaki or oxidized by pure choji. The easy solution might just be frequent cleaning with tsubaki, and it's limitation led to a ready transition to mineral

Perhaps their swords didn't have a chance to gum up. My test was based on a razor coated with a thin application and left for just under 2 weeks. I honestly couldn't even speculate.

Mineral oil I thought, was a pound a penny basically, its that cheap. That would make perfect sense as to the change over, coz pure Tsubaki oil is rather spendy, but not $1/ml spendy.

Perhaps clove oil was added because of its antiseptic and antibacterial properties? Our dentist used to put it on my gums when I was a kid and had a tooth pulled. It's also said to relieve sore throats (not the Sweeney Todd variety, ha ha).