Non-toxic and environmentally friendly multi purpose ballistol oil was originally designed in 1904 for cleaning firearms and protecting the wood and leather of a soldiers kit and has an obnoxiously large range of uses, from winterizing motors to polising brass. Ballistol is an excellent steel protecting oil as it emulsifies in water (rather than separating) protecting even when wet, it has a base chemistry and neutralizes the acids in fingerprints as well as having a very low surface tension which allows it to penetrate and spread. Ballistol is also skin safe with *no carcinogens*.