Mineral oil for china clay (2 Viewers)

[Bilbo]

Hello everyone,

I am looking for some advice with purchasing some mineral oil for my china clay chips(Majestic). This is my first poker chip set I would consider expensive and I am nervous about oiling them with a wrong kind of material and damaging them. I am from eastern EU (Lithuania) and it's impossible to find something locally that would be used specificly for cleaning clay poker chips. I did some reading on oiling chips in this forum and found a lot of useful info on the methods of oiling the chips but I am afraid about using the wrong material. Here is an example of some light mineral oil I could get locally(http://www.tri-bio.com/site/product/fabric-deodorant-eco-bio-probiotic/) even tho it is supposed to be used for wood. So the main question is, can I use this to oil my chips without causing damage?
I missed the opportunity to get some chip oil with my order from pokershop.de and would like to not pay the 20 euro shipping for 5 euro 20ml bottle of oil so thats why I am looking for something I could get from a local hardware/building material or hobby shops.

In some of the forum posts I read I found out a lot of people dont oil their china clays, but I really love the brighter colors so I would like to try oiling them at least once.
Sorry if this kind of question was answered somewhere, I could not find the thread. Also sorry for grammar mistakes.

Thanks for all the help and advice in advance, hope you are having a beautiful day.

 

[TheRealTeddyKGB]

Yes, that should work just fine. Clear, odorless & food grade is what you want.

 

[Bilbo]

Yes, that should work just fine. Clear, odorless & food grade is what you want.

Thanks so much for quick reply!

 

[w00zie]

Go to a pharmacy and ask for paraffinum liquidum. That‘s pure mineral oil used in lotions, creams etc. Very cheap at the pharmacy.

 

[ukas]

Hey, fellow countryman, drop me a PM. I'll hook you up with some good juice. Your linked oil is fine too. Welcome to the community!

 

[bubz_davis]

I personally just oil the outsides of the china clays. They dont really absorb it well so ill do it like twice a year. There is a good write up on compression oiling, I did it once for them and it didnt seem to make much of a difference.

 

[Flopalopagus]

It’s been a while since I’ve broken out my China clays, but when they were my primary set, I used the oiling chips the right way thread and went to town on them. They came out great and shiny but they did need a little extra time to dry.

My clay chips gobbled up the oil like I’d never seen.

 

[mr11]

Highly recommend oiling china clays

 

[ChippinUp]

I don’t want to be negative but I’ve oiled China clays in the past, specifically Royals/Milanos and I don’t think they actually absorb much of the oil.

Although the colours certainly pop after oiling I found it was short lived. I would have to agree with @bubz_davis maybe try oiling the edges first.

China clays are effectively plastic and there really isn’t much absorption happening imo but I know many disagree with me

 

[Flopalopagus]

I don’t want to be negative but I’ve oiled China clays in the past, specifically Royals/Milanos and I don’t think they actually absorb much of the oil.

Although the colours certainly pop after oiling I found it was short lived. I would have to agree with @bubz_davis maybe try oiling the edges first.

China clays are effectively plastic and there really isn’t much absorption happening imo but I know many disagree with me

I agree re: the colors popping. I’m not sure on the absorption part, but you are probably correct. I liked the results but it was clear that drying and absorption was night and day different between clay and china clay. It was way slower to dry for the China clay. That led me to believe that it dint absorb the same way at all.

I’d say that if you have the time and the stomach for it oil them. One thing was for sure, I never found that oiling the China clays hurt them in any way.

 

[ExileExistence]

I also struggled with buying the right oil and recently bought this on amazon from chemdiscount for oiling my first Paulsons sets. So far it looks just about right! "Paraffinum Perliquidum" was the correct term (Perliquidum is less thick than liquidum and therefore a bit easier to get absorbed by the chips, atleast after my research).

Most important as @TheRealTeddyKGB mentioned, check for clear, odorless & food grade oil.