good ol' vaseline!
Ahh.. vaseline! I remember the old days as a child sitting on the bus .. and seeing the little boy with the shiny face! I knew his mother had used Vasoline on his face! He was just too shiny! Mama knw what she was doing tho!
Vaseline, while its used for a myriad of purposes, including keeping ants away at a coat of any base, it's one of the few beauty products that's truly multi-purpose - for skin coverage, as a highlighter, brow liner, mascara, cuticle oil, and lip gloss to name a few.
Lets first learn the history of Vaseline...
When oil was first struck in Pennsylvania in 1859, a 22-year-old chemist named Robert Augustus Chesebrough visited an oil . While he was there, Chesebrough discovered a gooey substance called rod wax, a build up that stuck to drilling rigs and gummed the works until removed. He also noticed that the workers smeared their skin with this residue instead of using band-aids because it effectively stopped bleeding and aided the healing of cuts and burns.
The Vaseline Petroleum Jelly we know and love today, is a mixture of mineral oils, paraffin and microcrystalline waxes that is blended at a melting point just above body temperature
Aside from its moisturizing and healing properties, here are some Vaseline recipes and remedies people swear by:
- A coat on the eyelashes every night to encourage the growth of longer and thicker lashes.
- Mixed with Kool-Aid to make coloured and flavoured lip gloss, mixed with sugar or sea salts to make a face or body scrub.
- Frozen to sooth the redness of zits.
- As a makeup remover.
- Under or over eye shadow and on the cheeks for a dewy look.
- To tame unruly eyebrows and defines lashes.
- Rubbed on the neck of nail polish bottles to avoid product build-up on the caps.
- As a protective mask around the hairline against hair dyeing, perming and straightening chemicals.
- As a friendly make-up stain remover for clothes.
what do you use it for? Let's share remedies!
Vaseline, while its used for a myriad of purposes, including keeping ants away at a coat of any base, it's one of the few beauty products that's truly multi-purpose - for skin coverage, as a highlighter, brow liner, mascara, cuticle oil, and lip gloss to name a few.
Lets first learn the history of Vaseline...
When oil was first struck in Pennsylvania in 1859, a 22-year-old chemist named Robert Augustus Chesebrough visited an oil . While he was there, Chesebrough discovered a gooey substance called rod wax, a build up that stuck to drilling rigs and gummed the works until removed. He also noticed that the workers smeared their skin with this residue instead of using band-aids because it effectively stopped bleeding and aided the healing of cuts and burns.
So he took some home and began experimenting. A few months of testing later, Chesebrough managed to extract commercially usable petroleum jelly.Chesebrough began making so much of the substance that he had to start throwing out his wife's flowers to fill all their vases with his new creation. When he was happy with the formula, Chesebrough added "-line", a popular medical suffix to the word "vase", and called the finished product Vaseline Petroleum Jelly.
Aside from its moisturizing and healing properties, here are some Vaseline recipes and remedies people swear by:
- A coat on the eyelashes every night to encourage the growth of longer and thicker lashes.
- Mixed with Kool-Aid to make coloured and flavoured lip gloss, mixed with sugar or sea salts to make a face or body scrub.
- Frozen to sooth the redness of zits.
- As a makeup remover.
- Under or over eye shadow and on the cheeks for a dewy look.
- To tame unruly eyebrows and defines lashes.
- Rubbed on the neck of nail polish bottles to avoid product build-up on the caps.
- As a protective mask around the hairline against hair dyeing, perming and straightening chemicals.
- As a friendly make-up stain remover for clothes.
what do you use it for? Let's share remedies!
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