• Uses: lubrication, fuel and as a constituent in various materials
• Users: very widespread range of users.
• Made from: hydrocarbons plus additives
• Hazard assessment: oil as a pollutant in the marine environment presents a range of hazards.

Avoid skin contact as much as possible.

Tip – to clean oil off the skin break a cuttlebone and rub the oil off using the exposed broken edge of the cuttlebone. This will remove a good deal of the oil.

Oil Lumps