June 2006 Cover
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By
Dawn Ivory
Thanks to the observant reader who sent the URL of Unilever, owners of the Vaseline family of products. Under "How it all started," web surfers read that "Vaseline was discovered in 1859 by Robert Augustus
Chesebrough, a chemist working in the oil industry. The idea for creating
Vaseline petroleum jelly came to
him when he observed that oil workers healed their burns and abrasions with
an oil residue they called 'rod wax.' He perfected the extraction process, producing a translucent, odourless jelly. Chesebrough became his own guinea pig, inflicting himself with numerous cuts, even burning his skin with
acid and fire...." Dawn is amused to consider that "rod wax" remains an apt moniker for the "translucent, odourless jelly's" most noteworthy use....
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