Originally Posted by
kingston
Paraffin oil is kerosene right?
No.
I use a paraffin-based lamp oil. Here (Canada) lamp oil is generally one of two types; paraffin based or kerosene based.
My mixture is paraffin wax (like for canning, candles, etc) and paraffin-based lamp oil
From this site (
https://www.dhr.nl/dhr-decorative/blogs/what-oil-use):
Lamp oil on the other hand has two types, one is a kerosene based, the other is a paraffin based lamp oil. The kerosene based lamp oil can be purified or not. The purified kerosene can be used in- and outdoors, the non purified kerosene is only suitable to use outdoors, for example in garden torches. Because of the toxic gasses it releases when burning the impurities in the kerosene. The paraffin based lamp oil is not advised by DHR. Paraffin, like kerosene, is an oil distillate. But paraffin isn’t very much liquid. To make it into an oil, solvents are added to make it more liquid.