The history of Vaseline® Jelly starts in 1859, when Robert Chesebrough travelled to Titusville, a small town in Pennsylvania. That's where oil workers had been using rod wax, an unrefined form of petroleum jelly – then just a simple by-product of the drilling they were working on – to heal wounded or burnt skin.

Unilever Vaseline (/ˈvæsəliːn/) is an American brand of petroleum jelly-based products owned by transnational company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, soaps, lotions, cleansers, and deodorants.

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History: In the 1860's, Robert Augustus Chesebrough, a chemist from New York, discovered Petroleum Jelly. In 1870, this product was branded as Vaseline Petroleum Jelly.

Vaseline® Blue Seal Original Petroleum Jelly is made with 100% pure petroleum jelly, triple-purified to lock in moisture for healing and protection against dry skin.

Petroleum jelly is made from a blend of natural waxes and mineral oils. People often refer in general to petroleum jelly as “Vaseline®”, but the real Vaseline® petroleum jelly is different. The real Vaseline® petroleum jelly is triple purified to remove impurities. It is gentle enough to be used on sensitive skin.

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Helping skin look healthy

• Product type. Healing jelly. Body cream. Lotions and moisturizers.
• Skin types. Dry skin. Sensitive skin. Baby Skin. All Skin Types.
• Your needs. Scar treatment. Dry skin itch & rash. Minor cuts. Burns. Scrapes. Dry cracked skin. Dry lips. Sunburn & sun damage.
• Special ingredients & formulations. Hypoallergenic.

Petroleum jelly is marketed under the name Vaseline. Petroleum jelly is created from refined crude oil and applied topically or as a lubricant. Vaseline is essentially petroleum jelly manufactured and sold by the American business Johnson & Johnson. Another difference is that vaseline is heavier than petroleum jelly.

Chacon says dermatologists advise their patients use Vaseline to keep a wound moist after a procedure. “It stops it from drying up and developing a scab because these wounds heal more slowly. This will aid in avoiding a scar from growing excessively broad, deep or itchy.”

Vaseline, however, is straight petroleum, and remains sticky and gooey much longer than most people want. So we make moisturizers that fall in the middle of these two extremes to meet different needs. Lotion is mostly water whipped with a little vaseline. Add a little more vaseline to the mixture, and you make a cream.

According to researchers , petroleum jelly is one of the most effective moisturizers on the market. It works by sitting on top of the skin, where it forms a barrier and prevents water from leaving your skin. Vaseline can be used as an everyday moisturizer for very dry skin.