Trying to locate sweet almond oil for, um, oiling. Supposed to be “medicinal” and superior to what you can get in regular healthfood stores. I was told about www.cedarvale.net but their site is down and I don’t know if they are still in business.
Thanks for any tips.
I got my sweet almond oil at a healthfood store. It’s Aura Cacia brand: “pure botanical essence” in fact. 
That’s not good enough?? It has Vitamin E added.
http://www.mothernature.com/search/index.cfm?query=sweet+almond+oil&Type=Products
One of many places to get it online, it looks like.
Carol
Here in Montreal you can find it very easily - in any pharmacy, in fact. Sold as Sweet Almond Oil BP (British Pharmacopoeia, not Petroleum) as a skin emollient, very good quality and very cheap too. No Vitamin E though!
Yes, is very easy to meet almond oil in my country at every cosmetic store.
I have a cuestion:
Do you clean your flute (inside) with a clean cloth just after oil it, or keep the bore oiled and clean the flute after play some tunes?
Same here BP sweet almond oil 2.75 for 30ml at the local pharmacy. Maybe the number of flutes around town (dozens at least) helps?
I use sweet almond oil from the gourmet oil section of my supermarket. I think it cost me $6 for 8oz. People have said that this food grade oil can become rancid, but I’ve been using it for months and smell nothing going bad.
You could try Mountain Rose Herbs at http://www.mountainroseherbs.com I notice that they list “natural, expeller pressed” sweet almond oil in their catalog for $6.00/16oz.
Elizabeth
For a very brief discussion of the difference between “sweet” almond oil and just plain almond oil, see:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Crops/Almond_oil.html
I bought a bottle of Hains almond oil w/ vit E at a health food store when I got my CB Folk Flute. Casey Burns suggested that almond oil should be washed before use. This involves simply agitating vigorously with water and decanting the oil. The water was cloudy, but I don’t know if that was due to contaminants or just a small quantity of oil suspended in the water. I did this a couple of times and then had to let it settle for another week or two until a small residuum of water settled out and the oil clarified.
After all that, I decided to use raw linseed oil anyway. Given that the debate “drying v. non-drying oils” is seems evenly balanced, it seems to me A)that a drying oil will ultimately be more protective for the wood and more forgiving if the flute is not oiled for a prolonged period, and B) it probably doesn’t make much difference one way or the other. After about 6 or so treatments inside and out I still can’t notice any buildup but the exterior does have a lovely sheen. Now if only I could make it sound as nice as it looks…
Roger
This is what I got, and where:
http://www.vitacost.com/Store/Products/ProductDescription.cfm?SKUNumber=051381911447
Uh oh Bloo -
Warnings
For external use only.
Sounds like you can’t use it on the bore of your flute…
Eric
No, no. You completely misunderstood. That just means you can’t be indoors when oiling the flute.
Nice come back!
Eric
Drug store. It comes in little bottles. You might have to ask the pharmacist, but they’ll surely have it.