Vaseline
Do you use Vaseline?
Another name for it is petroleum jelly
But when I was growing up, we just called it Vaseline
and we used it around the house for various things on our skin
You know, if you got dry skin, that was the most common place
But my mom also used it for diaper, rashes, cuts and scrapes
And I hear that some people use it if they have eczema or psoriasis
But there's other uses.
one of the most unconventional purposes of or uses of Vaseline is to lubricate hinges
You could also use it to protect tools from rust
And some people put it on leather to make it a little bit more water, water resistant
You could use it as a fire starter in camping and survival situations to actually,
I was wondering about where it came from and it's been around for about 160 years
There was a guy, a chemist named Robert Cheese,
bro and he was making a product and the product became obsolete after they discovered oil locally,
they didn't need his product anymore
He went over to the oil field to see if there was anything he could learn
And maybe he could use the petroleum to make new products
As he, as it turns out he found this stuff that they called petroleum jelly back then
And it was mostly a nuisance
The people who were drilling oil didn't like it except
when they got a burn and they put the petroleum jelly on the burn and it got better
He started to look into this substance and he purified it
Then he tried to sell it
Nobody wanted it at first
But he kept on touring and showing people its miracle powers
Of course, it doesn't have a miracle power
and it doesn't heal cuts and burns
It just covers the skin and keeps dirt from getting in
and it keeps the moisture in two so the skin can heal a little bit faster
And that was where petroleum jelly started and that's where I'm gonna stop for today.