Don’t we all wish for such a wonder product for our skin that will accentuate, repair, moisturize yet highlight our skin? Then look no further than our medical cabinet: Vaseline. The Vaseline’s iconic formula is simply iconic. It’s been around for more than a century and is a multi-tasking miracle cream and as Vaseline believes that healthy skin starts with deep healing moisture.
Vaseline was discovered by Robert Augustus Chesebrough, a British chemist, travelled to Titusville, Pennsylvania where petroleum had recently been discovered. Chesebrough, who had been making kerosene from the oil of sperm wales, was eager to learn what other products could be made from petroleum. While there, he observed that a by-product of the oil drilling process seemed to have skin-healing properties, as the oilmen would smear their skin with the residue from the drill to help heal their cuts and burns. He then took 5 years to perfect his extracting technique and then patented his process of triple purification- filtration, distillation and de-aeration.
In 1872, he then registered the “Wonder Jelly” as “Vaseline,” from German word for water – wasser, and the Greek word for oil – oleon. By 1874, Vaseline® Jelly was being sold across the U.S. at the rate of a jar a minute. That’s over 1,400 jars a day!
Fun Fact: Queen Victoria, the British Monarch was a huge fan of Vaseline. She knighted Chesebrough and told him that she was a huge fan of Vaseline and used it regularly to help heal her dry skin.
Unusual uses of Vaseline:
1.They also help in defining our lashes, in case you run out of mascara.
2.To help inserting our ear-rings, especially for those women, who don’t regularly wear ear-rings.
3.To help remove lash glue. Instead of tugging out the false lashes, gently apply Vaseline with a cotton swab and then remove the lash.
4.To highlight our cheek-bones and to get a dewy look.
5.To prevent chafing and dry cuticles.
6.To protect your skin while coloring your hair by dabbing some on our hair-line, ear-lobes and neck-line.
7.To soothe and moisturize chapped nose.
8.To soothe cracked skin, lips and heels in winter.
9.To tame your wild eye-brows
10.To unscrew a stuck nail polish.
11.Vaseline can be also used to make our own Lip balm and body scrub.
12.Vaseline, helps soothe sun-burns
By: Archa Dave
