Just to note, there are all kinds of "Petroleum Distillates", for example Chap Stick brand lip balm which is made from
44% Petrolatums
I once asked chemist about solvents used in car care products and he said it's the quality of the solvents that matter and all too often the general public just lumps all solvents into the same category.
He said,
"there are good solvents and bad solvent, the way you make a good solvent is take all the icky things out of the bad solvent"
He actually went more in-depth than that but the above was his initial answers. Here's the deal, the more refining you do to a bad solvent to make it a good solvent the more it costs...
This goes back to,
you get what you pay for because you can't offer a product at a low price using costly ingredients, you won't make a profit and you'll go out of business.
Good business is making a profit, that way you and your company and your products endure over time. Bad business is not making a profit, thus you go out of business and you can't help anyone.
That's why I'm a big fan of win/win business, that is everyone wins. For the customer they get a product that does what the manufacture claims it will do, the customer uses it and the product solves their problem,
that is this person's profit. The seller makes enough money to cover
all costs and overhead and still has something leftover,
that's their profit.
Typically, if you smell a product and it has a strong oder of solvents, the odor you're smelling are the V.O.C's. These are generally speaking the icky things, a good solvent has had them removed.
Also just to note, water is a solvent and an abrasive but most people don't ever think of it this way... it
dissolves mud off a muddy 4-wheel drive and it
carved out the Grand Canyon.
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