About Vaseline
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Vaseline is a great leather protector. Use on leather shoes, baseball mitts, leather jackets and purses. With a soft cloth rub on and buff off with a clean soft cloth. Will soften, shin and make the leather water resistant.If you have ever gotten gum stuck in your hair, on furniture and carpeting you know how difficult it is to remove. The next time coat the gum with Vaseline and let sit for a few minutes. The petroleum jelly dissolves the gum.
If your drawers stick, rub some Vaseline on the runners and they will glide in and out easily.
Petroleum jelly also removes water stains from wooden furniture. Rub Vaseline into the water ring or spot let sit over night and buff away with a soft cloth.
Vaseline keeps caps from sticking. Put a small amount of Vaseline on the threads of a bottle of nail polish or Crazy Glue before closing and they will never seal shut again.
Also use on the lid of a paint can before closing, the paint won’t “glue” the can shut.
If your ring gets stuck on your finger, apply a generous coat of Vaseline around your ring and on your finger, twist side to side and your ring will slide right off.
Use Vaseline to stop a door from creaking. Apply to the hinges and the doors will smoothly open and shut without the creaking and squeaking.
Also use to make windows open and close easily.
When you are painting apply a coat of Vaseline to the edges of the glass in windows and on door handles. Any paint that splatters will be easy to clean up, just wipe the Vaseline away.
When you are working outside or under the hood of your car, apply a coat of Vaseline to your hands and it will prevent the dirt and grease from sticking.
Vaseline when mixed with a couple of drops of perfume will make your scent last all day.
Before you put a candle in a candle holder, put a thin coat of Vaseline inside the candle holder and the wax won’t stick.
If ants like your dog’s food as much as your dog does, draw a circle of Vaseline around the edge of the bowl. Ants don’t like petroleum jelly and won’t walk on it.
If you need to use a plunger, put a coat of Vaseline on the end of the plunger. The Vaseline will help to form a seal.
Use Vaseline to grease bicycle chains. Rub petroleum jelly on all metal parts of a bike to keep it from rusting. Also use on roller skate and skateboard wheels to make them roll smoothly.
When you go camping, rub Vaseline into cotton balls, put into a zip lock bag and use to start a fire.
Use Vaseline on scraped knees and it will keep the dirt out. Make sure to wash the cut or scrape well because you don’t want to seal germs in.
Use Vaseline on musical instrument to keep slides from sticking.
Removes make-up
Use as a diaper rash prevention cream
Make your teeth shiny for pictures
Helps lipstick stay in place
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The Vaseline® journey started in 1859, when a 22 year-old chemist from Brooklyn, New York named Robert A. Chesebrough, went to Pennsylvania to investigate an oil well. The oil industry was in its infancy, and Chesebrough, like many, was hoping to profit from it.
While Chesebrough was there, he discovered a gooey substance known as 'Rod Wax' that was causing the oil rig workers problems, as it stuck to the drilling rigs, causing them to seize up.
Chesebrough noticed that oil workers would smear their skin with the residue from their drills, as it appeared to aid the healing of cuts and burns. His curiosity led him to take some Rod Wax home with him and start experimenting with it. After months of testing, he managed to successfully extract usable petroleum jelly.
New mothers used it as an absorbent shield for diaper rash. Professionals working in extreme cold weather used it to relieve their dry chapped skin. Even Commander Robert Peary took Vaseline® with him when he became (as is generally accepted) the first man to reach the North Pole, because it wouldn't freeze.
By the late 1880s, Chesebrough was selling Vaseline® Petroleum Jelly nationwide at the rate of one jar per minute and most medical professionals recognized Vaseline® Petroleum Jelly as the standard remedy for skin complaints.
During the Second World War, Vaseline® was commissioned to produce a sterile antiseptic wound dressing containing Petroleum Jelly. As a result, the brand name Vaseline®, became a patriotic symbol in the United States
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