Pierre Ducane made paraffin oil an extremely popular remedy. The diet offered by the famous Monsieur, someone likes and who does not. However, the fact that it is very effective is no longer in dispute. Another question is how useful it is. Or rather, is it harmless? Eating a significant amount of protein, strict restriction and even complete exclusion of fast carbohydrates and fats - is this acceptable?
It seems that there is nothing left to eat but lean meat and low-fat cottage cheese. However, the cunning Monsieur offers not only a diet, but also many recipes based on it. Some he developed himself, others borrowed from his resourceful and selfless followers.
As a result, slimming using his method can enjoy baking from bran and skimmed milk powder, and even real homemade mayonnaise. Yes, yes, it was to them, this sauce branded by numerous nutritionists, this "high-calorie" bomb, without which some cannot even imagine a delicious salad.
The resourceful Ducane came up with the use of paraffin oil for its manufacture. It has other names: liquid paraffin, lamp oil, 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 and color. It does not dissolve in alcohol or in water.
Such paraffin oil is sold in a pharmacy. An educated Frenchman took advantage of his unique property: it is not absorbed by the human body at all. Bypassing the digestive tract, not absorbing and not altering, only lubricating the intestines and softening the stool, it thereby has a mild laxative effect.
It is paraffin oil that provides the oiliness so beloved by many products, 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 petroleum jelly or in a mixture with others, it is used as oil of lamps. The fact is that it burns superbly - without soot and burning, without creating a smell. It is simply optimally suited for use in lamps, besides its price compares favorably with that of natural olive, which was customary to use for church lamps initially.
Classically, this remedy was to be made from olive, preferably squeezed from berries that grow not elsewhere, but in the Holy Land. Another old name is wooden oil. But today the church fully admits its manufacture from other products. Therefore, it is most often used oil from petroleum products, which for worldly purposes is called white medical vaseline. You can buy this universal tool at any pharmacy.