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Vaseline is a brand of petroleum jelly
Petroleum jelly

Petroleum jelly, petrolatum or soft paraffin is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons , originally promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties....
 based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever
Unilever

Unilever is a multi-national corporation, formed of United Kingdom-Netherlands parentage that owns many of the world's consumer product brand names in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, lotions, cleansers, deodorants and lubricants
Personal lubricant

Personal lubricants are specialized lubricants which serve, during sexual acts , to reduce friction with the penis, vagina, anus or other body parts....
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The first known reference to the name Vaseline was by the inventor of petroleum jelly, Robert Chesebrough
Robert Chesebrough

Robert Augustus Chesebrough, was a chemist and the inventor of petroleum jelly, trade-named Vaseline. In 1875 he founded the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company that later became Chesebrough-Ponds, a leading manufacturer of personal care products....
 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 German Wasser (=water) + Greek ??a??? (=oil).







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Vaseline is a brand of petroleum jelly
Petroleum jelly

Petroleum jelly, petrolatum or soft paraffin is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons , originally promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties....
 based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever
Unilever

Unilever is a multi-national corporation, formed of United Kingdom-Netherlands parentage that owns many of the world's consumer product brand names in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, lotions, cleansers, deodorants and lubricants
Personal lubricant

Personal lubricants are specialized lubricants which serve, during sexual acts , to reduce friction with the penis, vagina, anus or other body parts....
.

The first known reference to the name Vaseline was by the inventor of petroleum jelly, Robert Chesebrough
Robert Chesebrough

Robert Augustus Chesebrough, was a chemist and the inventor of petroleum jelly, trade-named Vaseline. In 1875 he founded the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company that later became Chesebrough-Ponds, a leading manufacturer of personal care products....
 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 German Wasser (=water) + Greek ??a??? (=oil).

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