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Maybe I should go to a paint store and see if they have pure Naptha? This is for cancer treatment, I need something that is effective, available in Michigan, and clean. Here is what Rick Simpson says,
The process that I am about to describe involves washing the starting material twice with a good solvent such as pure naphtha, to remove the available resin from the plant material. Naphtha has proven to be a very good solvent to produce the oil and in Europe it is often called benzine. The only solvents that I have direct experience with are ether, alcohol and naphtha. Ether is my personal favourite and it is a very effective solvent, but it is expensive and can be quite hard to get. I think the use of ether is better suited for closed distilling devices since it is very volitile and its fumes make it a bit dangerous to work with. Alcohol is not quite as effective as ether or naphtha as a solvent, since it is less selective in nature, but still it does work well. Alcohol will dissolve more chlorophyll from the starting material and due to this, oils produced with alcohol will usually be more noticeably dark in color. For a solvent to be effective it should be 100% pure and 100% pure alcohol is expensive and can be quite hard to find. Naphtha on the other hand is quite cheap to acquire and is usually not too hard to find. Many paint suppliers sell pure naphtha as paint thinners, so for the most part it is quite easy to get and next to the use of ether it is my solvent of choice.
I might be hampered by my location in CA where VOC (volatile organic compound) laws are fierce. But all the "naphtha" I have seen in the States is actually kerosene, and I would reject any product made with it as filthy.
I do not think that, unless you operate a solvent still, you can make a hardware- (or paint-) store product work. Key is the boiling range of the naphtha ... if the upper limit is below 200ºF with no residue, you have a "goer". My opinion. But the VM&P out here is still not dry at over three hundred degrees. Aiee. cn