"Wikipedia"
("Most often, mineral oil is a liquid
by-product of the
distillation of
petroleum to produce
gasoline and other petroleum-based products from
crude oil. A mineral oil in this sense is a
transparent,
colorless oil composed mainly of alkanes [SUP]
[2][/SUP] and
cyclic paraffins, related to
petroleum jelly (also known as "white petrolatum").
I don't think you will ever get far away from a petroleum product.