Orange Oil
Peel of Orange distillation (d'limonene)
For All Cleaning Needs
This all purpose cleaner and degreaser can be used in hundreds of different applications. As a general cleaning agent, use it for floors, walls, counter tops,decks, patios, on tiles, woodwork, windows, and mirrors. It is effective against mold, mildew, fungus, and bacteria. It cleans stove tops, ovens, fireplace windows, rusted metal, garden tools (all with steel wool), sinks, bathrooms(sink, shower, tub, toilet), garbage pails, and feed buckets. Orange oil also has many uses for cleaning vehicles, bicycles, and boats; it degreases motor parts as well. Use sparingly with water to clean the interior of your car. As a stain remover, use on scuff marks, felt marker, gum, glue, candle and crayon wax, sap, tar, adhesives, grease, and oil stains. Orange oil helps remove odorsof all types. Use on carpets, clothes, furniture, and fabric. Restores leather. Using different concentrations, experiment with it, for its uses are virtually unlimited.
Other general suggestions:
Use more concentrated on floors, whereas walls depend on the finish. Do patch test first before application. Walls around stoves probably require more scrubbing. Use on wooden cabinets.
For ovens,inside and out, clean with a scouring pad or lightly soaped steel wool.
Add a tablespoon to your windshield washer.
In a mist concentration, use on windows, mirrors, appliances, chrome, stainless steel, silverware, anything that you would like to have shine. As a light mist, use as an air freshener.
Add a little to laundry with Dr. Bronner's soap for a fresh, clean wash.
Use fairly concentrated on tree sap, tar, adhesives, grease, oil deposits.
Use against mold, mildew, fungus, bacteria, viruses in your house, especially in the kitchen and bathroom. Use in the toilet to clean bowl. It can be used in conjunction with essential oils.
In the garden, it kills harmful insects, especially aphids. As a spray, it can be used as a general purpose insect and animal repellent, and can also be helpful in the temporary relief of poison oak or ivy rash.
It can be used as a hand cleaner.
Ratios for mixing with water:
Mist: 1/4oz / qt
Light mix: 1/2oz / qt
General mix: 1 oz / qt
Strong mix: 2-4 oz / qt
If unsure of required concentration, start with spray; use more as is necessary. Stubborn stains require more. Use straight, in concentrated form, with caution. Pure orange oil can dissolve some plastics and fiberglass. Storage in glass containers or special PET plastic is recommended.
16 oz $13.00 1 gallon $85.00
Second-pressed Hemp Seed Oil
Hemp seed oil is derived from the versatile hemp plant. Popular Mechanics published an article on the hemp plant back in the 1930s stating that it had potentially 50,000 uses. Second-pressed hemp seed oil also offers an enormous number of uses, from home building, industrial uses, to cosmetics. Cleans easily with Dr. Bronner's Soap.
Second-pressed hemp oil can be used in the construction ofalternative homes, whether of cob, rammed earth, adobe, hybrid adobe, papercrepe, or straw bale, and has many applications in the more traditional-typewood house. Used straight, hemp oil can be used as a varnish to help protect surfaces. Hemp oil mixed in grout creates a water resistant mixture that is adherent. Hemp oil in window putty makes it waterproof and more plastic. It has been tried as a resin and oil finish for boats and wooden decks.
Second-pressed hemp oil mixed with vinegar, salt, borax, andcitrus oil, for example, can be used as a cleaner and preserver of woodwork around the house and outdoor furniture. Because of its antimicrobial and antifungal properties, hemp oil helps prevent mold. A slight coat of hemp oil with orange or lemon oil is good for any woodwork, for example, to shine up cabinets. Be sure to buff dry for maximum penetration. Do a small testing before doing the main project. (More details on other side.)
In manufacturing, there are uses in bicycle chain, chainsaw, and other machinery lubricants, as an ingredient in solvents, putty, printing inks,and biodiesel fuels, and in candle-making. Many bicycle shops have used hemp oil as a chain lubricant for a smoother and quieter ride, as well as for degreasing bicycle frames and the lubrication of all parts (including rusted parts), and also the testing of brakes. There are so many other possible applications only waiting to be discovered by creative thought.
Another area where second-pressed hemp oil has many uses is in the broad category of cosmetics: for making soaps, shampoos, conditioners, lip balms, shower gels, baby creams, massage oils, moisturizers, body lotions, bath oils, and salves. Depending on the formula, 2-20% hemp oil can be used. Keep in mind that there are no solvents used in the production of our second-pressed hemp oil. Thus, for cost and effectiveness, it is an excellent quality value. Small trials are first performed to determine desired result.
In its drying properties, hemp oil is somewhat like linseed oil. Polymerization of the oil is actually an asset because of its ability to dryout on surfaces faster. In fact, linseed oil and hemp oil, up until 1937, were used in the majority of all shellacs, paints, varnishes, and resins. Large companies all used hemp oil in their products until the prohibition against hemp brought it to halt.
With care, second-pressed hemp oil can be heated up for 10 minutes, which will polymerize it, giving it a faster drying time and quality. Used straight or mixed with orange oil extract (in place of turpentine), it helps to enhance finishes.
Second-pressed, non-filtered hemp oil is available. Non-filtered allows the oil to retain the full beneficial properties of the hemp plant. We offer it in recycled containers of quart, gallon, 5 gallon, and drum sizes at a very affordable price.
Ten gallons of hemp seed oil has been donated by Herbal Products & Development to the Navaho (Dinah people) for a medicine lodge in Wheatfield, AZ, and to the Hopi for a cultural center in Pinon, AZ. Hemp oil is also being extensively tested for projects nationwide for use as finishes on walls, floors, and furniture.
Examples of second-pressed hemp seed oil being used for house construction are found in Teresa Berube's book, How I Built My Organic Home of Mud and Hemp. In it, she lists recipes using hemp oil for paint, waterproofing, sealant, roof and floor oils, kitchen tile and simple plastic glues. Recipes are the following:
For semi-gloss or gloss paint, add hemp oil to thicken the mixture of clay paint base.
For putty, add hemp oil to clay.
For a bath tub, burnish and waterproof with 4-7 coats of hemp oil.
For floors, use 4-7 coats hemp oil. It transforms cob into a one piece linoleum.
For grout, add hemp oil and tea tree oil to make a glue of clay.
As a varnish, use 100% hemp oil, brushing it on, giving it 1-5 days to dry.
Hemp oil also helps waterproof cloth.
As a floor oil and sealant:
For a 1st coat use 1 gal hemp oil to 1 cup Citrisolve (orange oil).For the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th coats decrease hemp oil to 1 quart, 1 pint, 1 cup, to the same 1 cup of Citrisolve.
For dry wall coat weather keeping, the first two coats can be hemp oil straight, the final coat add 1/4 cup beeswax. Apply when warm. For built-infurniture, the first two coats can be hemp oil straight, rubbed in. Try on masonry, pavers, field stones, brick. A few coats will help seal.
For a kitchen tile glue: 4 cups water, 3 cups kaolin clay, mix, and add 1 1/2 hemp oil, 1 tbsp. tea tree oil, 1 tbsp. psyllium husks (already mixed with 1 cup water). Set the tiles, let dry before grouting.
For hemp glue: 1 pint water, 1 1/2 cups hemp oil, 1 tbsp. psyllium husks. Mix and add 3 cups kaolin clay, 2 tbsp. hemp hurd flour.
A basic cleaning formula is a 1:1 ratio of hemp oil to lemon oil, orange oil, or vinegar. Patch test first. It cleans and refreshes woodwork. Lightly apply. Buff well and wipe clean with dry cloth after each application. Also clean up old garden tools or any oxidized metal. Rub first with steel wool, then apply mix of hemp oil and orange oil, buff and dry with an old towel.
The company Rio Rockers has used hemp oil as a finish on wooden rockers and chairs. They begin with a 2:1 solution of turpentine to hemp oil for a first coat. The 2nd coat is a 1:1 ratio, 3rd coat is 1:2, and the 4th coat is 1:4. The finish is vigorously hand rubbed and burnished until it is well absorbed. Each coat could take 1 to 5 days drying time, depending on the weather. (Our preference for a solvent is orange oil).
Colorants with iron oxides could be added to hemp oil to produce natural pigments for use on external walls or on furniture. If the hemp oil hasbeen heated, there is a faster drying time. This could also be the final wash on landscaped, free-formed walls. Use approx. 2% in the plaster mix. Do final sealant coat for final coating.
Philip Mirkin, author and pioneer in hybrid adobe construction, states that hemp oil can be substituted for linseed oil. See his book The Hybrid Adobe Handbook for recipes. Hemp oil at approximately 2% can be used in the finish coat on paper crepe/hybridadobe exterior walls. It can also be used for interior walls as a coating on clay surfaces with final coat as a sealant. See also his website:www.hybridadobe.com
As a good late spring or summer project, if you want to spruce up and recondition your outdoor deck furniture and benches, you couldn't do better than using hemp oil.
1 quart $12.00 1 gallon $30.00