Vot iss verboten is whaling as such Joe so don't go sticking em and rendering any in the old trypots unless you're maybe Japanese. I think you can safely use what you've got for what you want to use it for without consulting your social and environmental conscience. Google it joE; says it's chemically a wax rather than an oil taken from those big old sinuses of the sperm whale rather than the whale oil rendered from blubber.

jack