Wood use - Oil

Birches
Silver Birch (Betula pendula)
Downy Birch (Betula pubescens)

Extracts of birch are used for flavoring or leather oil, and in cosmetics such as soap or shampoo. Birch tar or Russian Oil extracted from birch bark is thermoplastic and waterproof; it was used as a glue on, for example, arrows, and also for medicinal purposes.

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