Most often, mineral oil is a liquid by-product of refining crude oil to make gasoline and other petroleum products.

Other names, similarly imprecise, include white oil, paraffin oil, liquid paraffin (a highly refined medical grade), paraffinum liquidum (Latin), and liquid petroleum. The name mineral oil by itself is imprecise, having been used for many specific oils over the past few centuries. Here is a Wikipedia article on mineral oil with an excerpt: 'Not to be confused with Mineral spirit.Mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of higher alkanes from a mineral source, particularly a distillate of petroleum, as distinct from usually edible vegetable oils.

It will always be the 70 SUS mineral oil, and it will be very hard to find any that does not come scented with a perfume. By far for the retail consumer, the greatest use and familiarity with mineral oil comes from its sale as Baby Oil. Note that mineral oil viscosities use the viscosity unit 'SUS' versus 'cps' or 'cSt' as a viscosity unit. We have 4 mineral oils, one that's high viscosity 350 SUS (this one), one that's extra high viscosity 600 SUS, one that's extra low viscosity 40 SUS, and one that's normal viscosity 70 SUS. The standard normal low viscosity mineral oil (or 'baby oil') is what you will find in a drug store which is 70 SUS.

This is a higher than 'normal' mineral oil. Complete Description, Mineral Oil, Medium Viscosity, 350 SUS.

350 mineral oil viscosity