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Vaseline (/ ˈ v æ s ə l iː n /) [1] [2] [note 1] is an American brand of petroleum jelly-based products owned by transnational company Unilever. [3] Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, soaps , lotions , cleansers, and deodorants .
Chesebrough opened his first factory in 1870. The first known reference to the name Vaseline is in his U.S. patent: "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) + Ancient Greek: έλαιον (élaion, oil). [5]
Chesebrough Manufacturing Company (/ ˈ tʃ iː z b r oʊ /) [3] was an oil company, founded in 1859, which produced petroleum jelly under the brand names Vaseline [4] and Luxor. [5] Robert Augustus Chesebrough, a chemist who started the company, was interested in marketing oil products for medicinal use.
"Vaseline is an American household brand name for a petroleum jelly product that has been manufactured since the 19th century," says Belinda Tan, a physician-scientist and co-founder and CEO of ...
Petroleum jelly. Petroleum jelly, petrolatum (/ ˌ p ɛ t r ə ˈ l eɪ t ə m /), white petrolatum, soft paraffin, or multi-hydrocarbon, CAS number 8009-03-8, is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons (with carbon numbers mainly higher than 25), [1] originally promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties. [2]
Heartbrand – ice cream. Umbrella brand for most global ice-cream brands identified by the Heartbrand logo (even if local brand names remain used). Algida – ice cream (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Turkey and the Balkans) [5] Ben & Jerry's – ice cream; Breyers – ice cream; Calippo – juicy ice lollies
Still a Bayer trademark name for acetylsalicylic acid in about 80 countries, including Canada and many countries in Europe, but declared generic in the U.S. [5] Catseye Originally a trademark for a specific type of retroreflective road safety installation. [6] The IP belong to Reflecting Roadstuds Ltd. and was registered by Percy Shaw. [7 ...
He then distributed his product under the name "Wonder Jelly" before shortly changing it to "Vaseline". [9] In the early 1880s, Charles Brown Fleet created ChapStick. [8] However, due to the lack of sales, Fleet sold his formula and rights to ChapStick to John Morton in 1912 for $5, who saw the marketing potential in the brand. [4]