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Vaseline® is personal care brand of skin creams, lotions and cleansers. Vaseline is a internationally registered trademark name wholly owned by [[Unilever]] PLC. <br /><br />
While the Vaseline brand covers a wide range of skin care products, it is most closely associated with [[petroleum jelly]] where it continues to be the global leader. Thus the close association between the brand and the product has lead to consumers mistakenly calling all types of [[petroleum jelly]] as “Vaseline”. Only [[petroleum jelly]] packaged and sold by Unilever under the Vaseline Brand name is able to call itself Vaseline.<br /><br />
== '''History''' ==<br />
The first known reference to the name Vaseline was by the inventor of petroleum jelly, [[Robert Chesebrough]] in his U.S. patent of 1872: “I, Robert Chesebrough, have invented a new and useful product from petroleum which I have named “Vaseline…” . The name has anecdotally claimed to be from the German word for water, wasser (pronounced vahser), and the Greek word for oil, elaion, but this is unconfirmed.<br /><br />
'''Links'''<br />
[http://www.vaseline.com Vaseline.com]<br />
[http://www.unilever.com Unilever.com]
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