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Vaseline is a brand of petroleum jelly based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, lotions, cleansers, deodorants and lubricants.
The first known reference to the name Vaseline was by the inventor of petroleum jelly, Robert Chesebrough 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…".
On one account, the etymology of the word is believed to come from German wasser (=water) + Greek έλαιον (=oil).1 However, a widely circulated story claims that the inventor of vaseline, a 22 year old, Brooklyn chemist named Robert Augustus Chesebrough, coined the name "vaseline" because he used his wife's flower vases to store the product.
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- ^ "Etymology of Vaseline". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Retrieved 26-8-2008.
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