The Egyptians used castor oil for their lamps and ingested it with beer as a purgative, a use that has prevailed to modern times, but without the beer.
Alnor was founded in 1968 by Alexander Klayman.
Elevators in the Statue of Liberty use a soybean based hydraulic fluid.
Castor Oil works as a good mole repellant because it doesn't kill the pests but rather encourages them to move elsewhere quickly.
Some vegetable oils are derived from the fruits of the plant, some from the seeds, and others from the leaves or roots.
Castor oil was the preferred lubricant for rotary engine warplanes during WWI.
Float a few tablespoons of vegetable oil on the surface of a bird bath to keep mosquitoes from using the water.
Sailors aboard Vasco da Gama's ships gave the coconut its name, calling it Coco, after the Portuguese word for grimacing face or hobgoblin. The word nut was added when it first came to England.
Canola is derived from "Can" (Canada) and "ola" (low acid).
During WWI, tung oil was used as a water resistant varnish on airplane fabrics and in the paint used on ships.
Alnor currently offers over 50 different oil products.
The first corn oil was extracted in the U.S. in 1898 and was called mazoil.
"Vegetable oil" is the name usually given to any oil product derived from a plant of any description, be it fruit or vegetable.
As early as 1500 BC, the Incans of Peru used peanuts as sacrificial offerings and entombed them with their mummies to aid in the spirit life.
Safflower is grown in more than 60 countries worldwide.
In 1935, Henry Ford used parts of soybeans to make gearshift knobs, window trim, door handles and accelerator parts in his vehicles.
All of the products Alnor sells are renewable, biodegradable and non-hazardous.
Traces of palm oil have been found in a 500 year old Egyptian tomb in the city of Abydos.
Marco Polo introduced tung oil to Europe.
By 2011, Alnor topped 120 million lbs in annual sales volume.
The palm tree was first introduced into Malaysia in 1875 but was only commercially planted there in Selangor in 1917.
Coconut water has been used as a plasma extender when plasma blood solutions were scarce.
During WWII, all ammunition was coated with tung oil.