The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #152867   Message #3577759
Posted By: Jack Campin
21-Nov-13 - 12:23 PM
Thread Name: Mathy Groves - oil of green
Subject: RE: Mathy Groves - oil of green
Wintergreen (methyl salicylate) is used medicinally, not as a dye. If you treated your clothes with it they would probably poison you when you wore them for the first time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_salicylate