Vaseline

Healthy skin everyday

In 1869, Robert Chesebrough, a dispensing chemist, discovered something amazing. He discovered a 100% natural product, rich in minerals from deep within the earth yet totally pure, which had remarkable healing properties when applied to cuts, burns and abrasions of the skin. That product was Vaseline. 

Your skin is amazing

Just as Robert Chesebrough in the 1800’s, we continue to be motivated by a passion and curiosity about skin. It’s an incredibly complex and miraculous creation of nature – a set of interdependent systems and elements that even today we don’t fully understand. It protects us from adverse climate and from infection. It recreates and regenerates itself through our lives. It stretches, yet retains its form. It is waterproof, yet it can emit water. 

And yet many people never stop to think about their skin. We’re not suggesting they should, by the way – people have more to think about each day than pondering the mysteries of their bodies. We’re suggesting that they can place their trust in a brand which does do that for them, a brand that has been curious and passionate about skin, learning more and more about it, for over 130 years. And which offers them the distilled wisdom of this learning in wonderfully absorbent, beautiful to touch, delicately fragranced, everyday products that care for their body like no others.

Did you know?

• Skin is the body’s largest organ, accounting for approximately 16% of your body weight
• Every 28 days, your skin renews itself completely
• Skin is a barrier that shields you from pollution and chemicals. Skin is also waterproof. 
• The skin on your fingertips is the most touch sensitive skin on your body 
• Exercise helps maintain healthy skin: improving your circulation which in turn helps to deliver oxygen and nutrients to your skin 

Innovation

Recent product introductions from Vaseline include:

• VaselineIntensive Rescue Range: Very dry skin has a new way of fighting back. New Vaseline Intensive Rescue is a range of products specifically designed with all of your different dry skin needs in mind. The range goes beyond instant relief and provides long-lasting moisture, promoting the proper environment for your skin to do something amazing: repair itself.
• Vaseline Cocoa Butter: When our skin is healthy, light reflects off the rich colour below the surface, enabling it to literally glow. But when skin is dry, its surface becomes uneven and rough, leaving it looking dull. Vaseline Cocoa Butter Deep Conditioning lotion penetrates deeply to smooth away roughness and the appearance of dark spots, igniting skin’s natural glow at the source.

Key facts

• Petroleum jelly was patented by Robert Chesebrough in 1865, and launched as Vaseline petroleum jelly in 1870 in the US
• By 1875 Americans were buying Vaseline petroleum jelly at the rate of a jar a minute. Today Vaseline petroleum jelly is a staple in medicine cabinets across the world, and a tub of Vaseline petroleum jelly is sold every 39 seconds*
• Vaseline and Vasenol products are available in over 90 countries around the world* (Vasenol is the alternative name for Vaseline in Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries)
• Vaseline is the number one hand and body lotion brand in the US

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