Extraction And Characterisation Of Oil From Cattle Brain For Production Of Fat Liquor

Extraction of oil from plants and animals’ source for production of fat liqour to render the leather soft by a sort of lubricating the fibres after tanning is being a practice for long. However, the oils and fats that were formerly used almost exclusively are now becoming scarce and expensive, thus there are need to source for alternative and readily available /environmentally friendly agents for this purpose of imparting the physical properties of leather. In this research extraction and characterization of oil from cattle brain was carried out, to ascertained its suitability for production o…