[Item] Oil List

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List of Oils

Used for potions and herbalism (and perhaps even cooking!). There may be overlaps between the categories. I also got rid of some oils. (Wikipedia is way too comprehensive).

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegetable_oils
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_essential_oils

Work in Progress

Vegetable/Plant Oils (Everything below can be considered Vegetable/Plant Oils)
Corn oil, a common cooking oil with little odor or taste.
Hemp oil, a high quality food oil.
Olive oil, used in cooking, cosmetics, soaps, and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps.
Sesame oil, cold pressed as light cooking oil, hot pressed for a darker and stronger flavor.

Fruit Oils
Acai oil, from the fruit of several species of the A?a? Palm (Euterpe). Grown in the Amazon region. Similar to grape seed oil. They are used in cosmetics and as a food supplement.
Apricot oil, similar to, but much cheaper than almond oil, which it resembles. Only obtained from certain cultivars.
Apple seed oil, used in cosmetics and shampoos. Also used as an edible oil.
Grape seed oil, suitable for cooking at high temperatures. Also used as a salad oil, and in cosmetics.[55]

Flower Oils
Evening primrose oil, used as a food supplement for its purported medicinal properties.
Lavender oil, used primarily as a fragrance. Also used medicinally.
Rapeseed oil, including Canola oil, one of the most widely used cooking oils.
Safflower oil, produced for export for over 50 years, first for use in paint industry, now mostly as a cooking oil.
Sunflower oil, a common cooking oil, also used to make biodiesel.

Melon Oils
Bottle gourd oil, extracted from the seeds of the Lagenaria siceraria, widely grown in tropical regions throughout the world. Used medicinally and as an edible oil.
Buffalo gourd oil, from the seeds of the Cucurbita foetidissima, a vine with a rank odor, native to southwest North America.
Butternut squash seed oil, from the seeds of Cucurbita moschata, has a nutty flavor that can be used for salad dressings, marinades, and saut?ing'
Pumpkin seed oil, a specialty cooking oil, produced in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. Used mostly in salad dressings. Poor tolerance for high temperatures.
Watermelon seed oil, pressed from the seeds of Citrullus vulgaris. Traditionally used in cooking in West Africa.

Nut Oils
Almond oil, used as an edible oil, but primarily in the manufacture of pharmaceutical drugs.
Cashew oil, somewhat comparable to olive oil. May have value for fighting dental cavities.
Hazelnut oil, mainly used for its flavor. Also used in skin care, because of its slight astringent nature.
Macadamia oil, strongly flavored, contains no trans fat.
Peanut oil (Ground nut oil), a clear oil used for dressing salads and, due to its high smoke point, especially used for frying.
Pine nut oil usually added to foods as a flavoring agent. An expensive food oil, from pine nuts, used in salads and as a condiment.

Food Supplemental Oils
Acai oil, from the fruit of several species of the A?a? Palm (Euterpe). Grown in the Amazon region. Similar to grape seed oil. They are used in cosmetics and as a food supplement.
Blackcurrant seed oil, used as a food supplement, because of high content of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.
Borage seed oil, similar to blackcurrant seed oil, used primarily medicinally.
Evening primrose oil, used as a food supplement for its purported medicinal properties.
Tomato seed oil. High in unsaturated fats and lysine. Potentially useful as a protein supplement.[82]

Medicinal Oils
Almond oil, used as an edible oil, but primarily in the manufacture of pharmaceutical drugs.
Apricot oil, similar to, but much cheaper than almond oil, which it resembles. Only obtained from certain cultivars.
Cinnamon oil, used for flavoring and medicinally.
Coriander seed oil, from coriander seeds, used medicinally. Also used as a flavoring agent in pharmaceutical and food industries.
Lavender oil, used primarily as a fragrance. Also used medicinally.
Mugwort oil, used in ancient times for medicinal and magical purposes. Currently considered to be a neurotoxin.
Sage oil, used medicinally.

Butters
Cocoa butter, from the cacao plant. Used in the manufacture of chocolate, as well as in some cosmetics.
Nutmeg butter, extracted by expression from the fruit of cogeners of genus Myristica. Nutmeg butter has a large amount of trimyristin. Nutmeg oil, by contrast, is an essential oil, extracted by steam distillation.