[TheForge] Garlic & Olive oil, again

[peter fels]

Somewhere in the back of my fuzzy brain is a reference to garlic being a mosquito repellant
because it causes one to sweat off the selenium sulfide it contains.
That might explain it's patination virtues.
Yes, it's pressed, concentrated garlic oil that i got and i'm a little wary of even opening the wee bottle.

On Aug 26, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:

> The stuff I had and was talking about back when was pressed oil. I suppose 
> there are other extraction procsses but I don't know what they are. The one 
> bottle lasted me years and was a really interesting copper alloy patina 
> agent.
> 
> Jer
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> From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
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> 
>> Any idea how much garlic is in that extract, or how the extract is
>> made?  Something called an "extract" could be a dilute solution.
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:53 PM, peter fels <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>>> I actually followed Frosty's lead and ordered pure garlic oil extract. 
>>> He'd recommended it for controlling mosquitos,
>>> and it's used in gardening as a diluted insect repellant. Costly stuff, 
>>> it turned out.
>>> We raise a fair amount of garlic of several varieties for the 
>>> kitchen..But Phoebe's jealous of that...
>>> And i'd be accused of sacrilege and deprived of pesto for such crass 
>>> misuse.
>>> 
>>> On Aug 25, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:
>> 
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