Since Cailin recently posted about using Vaseline as a mascara alternative, I’ve thought of a few more ways (twenty, to be exact) to work petroleum jelly into your beauty routine. You’ll be surprised at how many different way you can use something so simple - and so inexpensive!
- Keep your hands clean. Rub some petroleum jelly onto your hands before doing any type of messy work. It’ll keep things like paint from absorbing into your skin, making it easy to just wipe them off later.
- Protect skin from hair color. Apply around your hair line to ensure no hair color absorbs into your skin. Just wipe off later and you’ll be ready to go!
- Moisturize chapped lips. Apply and go - it’s basically the same thing as Carmex.
- In fact, moisturize your whole body. You can use it on your hands, elbows, knees, wherever!
- Protect your nails when painting them. Apply around the edge of your nail. It’ll make sure no polish gets on your skin while softening your cuticles.
- Get soft feet! Apply to rough feet 3 minutes after bath or shower to moisturize them. Applying it right out of the shower helps absorption. You can also put it on your feet before bed and wear socks and you’ll wake up with soft, smooth, lovely feet.
- Use as a make-up remover. Petroleum jelly safely removes your make up while softening your skin as well.
- Create a smoky eye shadow look. Apply black eyeliner, and then use a small amount of petroleum jelly over the top. Slightly smear it for a messy, smoky look.
- Skip your mascara.
- Make your eyelashes grow. Many people swear by this trick. Apply every night before bed and over time you will have longer, stronger, thicker lashes.
- Soften hands. Apply a generous amount to your hands, then wear gloves to bed. You will wake up with the softest hands ever.
- Shine your bald beau’s head. Rub into his scalp and he’ll be so shiny, you’ll be able to predict the future with his head.
- Gloss your lips. Vaseline works great as a sheer, shiny gloss. ( You can also add Kool-Aid mix to the Vaseline to make your favorite lip gloss color. Yummy!)
- Look dewy. Apply to your cheeks for a radiant dewy glow.
- Tame your brows. Apply a tiny bit of petroleum jelly to your brows for a fabulous finished look.
- Remove false eyelash glue. Rub a little on your eyelashes to remove frustrating leftover glue from fake eyelashes.
- Smooth your lips. Apply to your lips after exfoliating with a toothbrush to ensure the smoothest lips you’ve ever had.
- Hide split ends. Dab a bit onto the ends of your hair to hide your dry, split ends.
- Prevent razor burn. Apply a little to your legs after shaving. It will both soothe them and smooth them!
- Homebrew an exfoliating scrub. Add sea salt, and it become the perfect bath time exfoliant.
Let me remind you about one thing that you are putting ON your body.
Petroleum! Meaning this is a crude oil based product.
Not a good thing no matter how many uses you can find for it!
Vaseline is one of the thing we are already so used to have around, that we never question what they are made of…
let’s also not forget that has a high risk for cancer..
damn give us cancer
ew - i don’t think i’ll be using anything on my skin that is a by-product of making gasoline.
Very useful tips. Thankss
Boo. Not a fan of smearing petroleum on myself.
Ew. That all would be like smearing lard all over yourself
Ick.
petroleum jelly protects your skin, softens it, etc. But it does not make your eyelashes grow. there is nothing about petroleum jelly that helps with hair growth. if you think it makes your eyelashes grow, then why wouldn’t it make your arm hair and leg hair grow? it’s a myth
Chill out people…..let’s not over react. It’s only suggestions…jeepers
Don’t forget lube.
You know, for that creaking door or cabinet or for car parts.
Ladies, thank you for all of your feedback. These were just suggestions for how you could use it. Also, these are not suggestions that you should rub PJ all over your body everyday and soak in it. They are simple suggestions on how to get soft skin, etc. It is highly unlikely that you will get cancer from applying a little bit as a lip balm. However, I do appreciate your feedback. Thankss!
-Amber
Hey guys, just F.Y.I. - Petrolatum, the main ingredient in Vaseline, is found in tons of cosmetics. It’s from a rod wax that is distilled, so no worries about smearing nasty things all over yourself (consider when whale blubber was used to make lipstick - oh, the things we do for beauty…). Also, products like Aquaphor are dermatologist recommended. Believe me, it’s way better than some of the chemicals present in lotions that are being made today. Thanks for these tips - I’ve also found that Vaseline can act as a sunscreen in a pinch. It just makes you super-shiny.
I think thay’re good tips although I’m with the general disbelief of the hair growth statement… You can also use it to make dance make up…. I’m a Cheer coach… instead of spending tons of money on expensive glitter makeup you can take vasaline and dump craft glitter in and mix well and use as costume makeup.. its also good to use over your teeth in a performance or photoshoot it keeps your lips/inside of your mouth from sticking to your teeth… I’ll swear by this fact I do it to every cheerleader i have.
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Thanks for your information. But we have high risk of getting cancer by using this product.
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dey wudnt sell it over d counter if u cud get cancer from it for gods sake. if der was Lanolin in it which is a known carcinogen den i wud agree, but even so it wud not be for sale if it was, think about it. All the lawsuits. And anyway if u read the meaning of half the ingredients in everything we use u wud be surprised at far worse things dan an abtract of petroleum. All that shimmery stuff in ur eye-shadow, lipsticks and nail varnish comes from gaunine. which is fish scales for cryin out loud. Stop reading too much into things.
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For those who are saying Vaseline or petroleum jelly can give you cancer, you must not use any kind of makeup. It is one of the main ingredients in lip balm and some lip sticks. The product has been around since the 1880s with no incidences with any health problems.
Please, if you are so worried about a product that was meant to go on your body, google it. You will find it’s main ingredient is Petralatum, and has nothing to do with “gas”.
I will have to use the split end idea, I’m sure it would make hair nice and shiny as well. Nice list.
I don’t see the point in worrying about getting cancer from Vaseline. We’ll all probably get cancer anyways, either from genes of from the sun, etc.
Thanks for the tips though. I’ll definetly be useing some of them=))
Hey guys,
These are all good suggestions; (you do have a choice not to use it); however everyone reacts differently to different products. I’ve worked @ one of the Best Cancer Hospitals in the country for 15 yrs… Our facility ranks either #1 or 2 each yr. Our physicians do Research on various types of Cancer on-going. There are no studies that state PJ causes Cancer! There are actually good benefits of using PJ as a skin protectant for many things…
TO anyone criticizing this post. ..GO SOMEWHERE ..PLEASE! You’re ridiculous. It was a post. no one said you HAD to use it, believe it, etc. Yeah, it’s a big conspiracy the beauty bunny wants you to get cancer. GROW UP lol dur
ok, you may as well go lock yourself in a padded cell and refuse to eat, because almost every part of our daily lives can give us cancer now! ppl have been using vaseliene for yrs and havnt been dying. you wont use vaseliene but you probably all go sunbaking which is a much bigger cause of cancer! and proven.
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