Reddit reviews MENDA Pure Touch Liquid Pump Bottle Clear 4 oz (Model: 35576)
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Brighten up your workstation with a bottle from the Menda Frosted Glass Collection.The bottle is available in four colors of glass: pink, blue, green, and clear frosted.Choose from the One-Touch or Pure-Touch pump.Dispenses approximately 2cc of liquid with each pump.Pumps are Made in America.
Oil (and other art supplies) that you find specifically for artists use has not been graded safe for food use. The stuff you buy at the grocery store may have other additives that will make polymerization difficult. Personally I would not recommend food grade materials to use in oil painting or visa versa.
As for solvents. So… oil paint on its own is very fat. Any oil you use as a medium is also a fat. There are times when you’ll want to cut the fat, especially in the underlayers. You’ll want a solvent for that. You also need certain solvents to make mediums.
But there are ways to use it so you’re not blowing through it. I suggest you use Gamsol, which is odorless mineral spirits. It’s the safest of the solvents that I’ve found and won’t skunk you out (but still use good ventilation). You can recycle turpentine and mineral spirits. When you’re done painting seal the jar (I put my solvent in an old sauce jar with a locking lid). In a couple days the pigment will settle to the bottom and you can pour off the clean solvent slowly into a new jar. Go back and forth until it’s too gross. Dispose at a hazardous waste site. NEVER POUR SOLVENTS DOWN THE DRAIN... Unless you enjoy fucking up your plumbing.
These days I use MENDA Pure Touch Liquid Pump Bottle Clear 4 oz (Model: 35576) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004AVXKBG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_oolhAb3FCQZ70 for my mineral spirits as it slows down evaporation. If you get one make sure it’s glass or metal and not plastic.
For clean up instead of using solvents I use poppy seed oil to get the pigment out. Load up the brush and wipe until clean, then soap and water to get the oil out. Solvents are hard on bristles and using poppyseed keeps them conditioned. Poppyseed is a lighter oil than linseed. Btw all the oils used in painting are seed/nut based, all yellow eventually. Linseed yellows the slowest which is one of the reasons why it’s commonly used today. Walnut also discolors slowly and dries slow too. Stand oil is the same as linseed, but it’s boiled to that it’s thicker. Lavender oil isn’t easy to come by where I’m at unless it’s ordered online. I’m curious but not yet to the point where I want to buy it.
So yah. That’s my take. Hope that helps