Pierre Ducane made paraffin oil extremely popular. The diet offered by the famous monsieur is liked by some and not. However, the fact that it is very effective is no longer disputed. Another question is how useful it is. Or rather, is it harmless? The use of a significant amount of proteins, strict restriction and even the complete exclusion of fast carbohydrates and fats - is this permissible?
It seems that there is nothing left to eat, except for lean meat and fat-free cottage cheese. However, the cunning Monsieur offers not only a diet, but also many recipes based on it. Some he developed himself, others he borrowed from his resourceful and dedicated followers.
As a result, those slimming with the help of his method can enjoy bran and skimmed milk powder pastries, and even real homemade mayonnaise. Yes, yes, it was them, this sauce branded by numerous nutritionists, this “calorie” bomb, without which some cannot even imagine a delicious salad.
Resourceful Dukan came up with the idea to use paraffin oil for its manufacture. It has other names: vaseline oil, lampoil, liquid paraffin. This substance is obtained artificially as a result of oil refining. After thorough cleaning, its fractions are bleached, turning into a dense oily liquid without taste, smell or color. It does not dissolve in alcohol or water.
This paraffin oil is sold in a pharmacy. An educated Frenchman took advantage of its unique property: it is not at all absorbed by the human body. Bypassing the digestive tract, not being absorbed or modified, only lubricating the intestines and softening the stool, it thus has a slight laxative effect.
It is paraffin oil that provides the product so beloved by many with its inherent oiliness, without distorting its taste. This is a great relief for those who care about their harmony, because many do not imagine a salad “without anything”. To reduce the density and achieve a more pleasant taste, when used for culinary purposes, it is diluted with mineral water.
Today, as pure vaseline or mixed with others, it is used as lamp oil. The fact is that it burns beautifully - without soot and burning, without emitting a smell. For use in lampadas, it is simply optimal, besides, its price compares favorably with that of natural olive oil, which was originally used for church lamps.
Classically, this remedy was supposed to be made from olive, preferably squeezed from berries that grow not just anywhere, but onHoly land. Another old name is wood oil. But today the church fully allows its manufacture from other products. Therefore, oil from petroleum products is more often used, which for worldly purposes is called white medical vaseline. You can buy this universal remedy at any pharmacy.
