Vaseline

Vaseline /ˈvæsəˌln/ is a brand of petroleum jelly based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, soaps, lotions, cleansers, deodorants, and personal lubricants.

The Vaseline name is considered generic in Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries, where the Unilever products are called Vasenol.

History

The first known reference to the name Vaseline was by the inventor of petroleum jelly, Robert Chesebrough in his U.S. patent for the process of making petroleum jelly (U.S. Patent 127,568) in 1872. "I, Robert Chesebrough, have invented a new and useful product from petroleum which I have named Vaseline..."

The word is believed to come from the German Wasser (water) plus the Greek έλαιον [elaion] (oil), plus the scientifically used ending -ine.

In 1859, Chesebrough went to the oil fields in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and learned of a residue called "rod wax" that had to be periodically removed from oil rig pumps. The oil workers had been using the substance to heal cuts and burns. Chesebrough took samples of the rod wax back to Brooklyn, extracted the usable petroleum jelly, and began manufacturing the medicinal product he called Vaseline.

Vaseline (disambiguation)

Vaseline may refer to:

  • Vaseline is a trademarked brand of petroleum jelly
  • Vaseline glass, also known as uranium glass
  • The Vaselines, a Scottish rock band
  • Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, a 1992 compilation album by American band Talking Heads
  • "Vasoline," a 1994 song by Stone Temple Pilots
  • "Vaseline," a song on English alternative rock band Elastica's debut album Elastica
  • Podcasts:

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    Vaseline

    by: Stone Temple Pilots

    One time a thing occurred to me
    What's real and what's for sale?
    Blew a kiss and tried to take it home
    Isn't you, isn't me
    Search for things that you can't see
    Going blind, out of reach
    Somewhere in the vasoline
    Two times and it has rendered me
    Punch drunk and without bail
    Think I'd be safer all alone
    Flys in the vasoline, we are
    Sometimes it blows my mind
    Keep getting stuck here all the time
    Isn't you, isn't me
    Search for things that you can't see
    Going blind, out of reach
    Somewhere in the vasoline
    You'll see the look and you'll see the lies
    You'll eat the lies and you will
    Flys in the vasoline, we are
    Sometimes it blows my mind
    Keep getting stuck here all the time
    Isn't you, isn't me
    Search for things that you can't see
    Going blind, out of reach




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