Vaseline

Healthy skin every day

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 branded Vaseline Petroleum Jelly.

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 most of us take our skin for granted. If we were to respect our skin more, and think about what we were doing to it, we would surely treat it better by, for example, drinking plenty of water or avoiding the sun. And when we put products on our skin, we’d ensure that we chose a brand that had a long and renowned history of developing products that cared for skin, a brand that has been curious and passionate about skin for over 130 years. The Vaseline brand offers us the distilled wisdom of this learning in wonderfully absorbent, beautiful to touch, delicately fragranced, everyday products that care for your body like no others.

Vaseline in South Africa has continued to offer expert skin care products.

Did you know?

• Skin is the body's largest organ and receives one-third of all the blood circulating through the body
• Every 28 days, your skin renews itself completely
• Skin is a barrier that shields you from pollution and chemicals. Skin is also waterproof.
• 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:

• Vaseline Men – range of lotions, creams and soap formulated specifically for men. It fortifies skin to make it resilient and help it perform more efficiently
• Vaseline Cocoa Butter – deep conditioning range of lotion, cream and body butter with cocoa and shea butter that penetrates the skin to eliminate dryness
• Vaseline Intensive Rescue – range of moisture locking lotions and creams that triples moisture reserves instantly and promotes the proper environment dry skin needs to repair itself.

Key facts

• Vaseline Petroleum Jelly was patented by Robert Chesebrough in 1872, and made its way to South Africa in 1885 for the first time.

Vaseline products are available in over 60 countries around the world (Vasenol is the alternative name for Vaseline in Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries).

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