Beauty

[goldensrbest]

My lips are dry,and peeling  wanted to do a scrub for them,i used vaseline,and a clean toothbrush, so we will see if it helped,have all kinds of lip balms.

[Kachina624]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

It's the most occlusive product found today. It has been used safely on skin for over 100 years and has no evidence of carcinogenic effects with it's use. It is noncomedogenic and helps heal the skin.

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Vaseline (petrolatum) is the jelly form of mineral oil.

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@SilleeMee.  After I had Mohs surgery on my face, I was told by my dermatologist  to use Vaseline on the incisions.

[Othereeeen]

Petroleum Jelly ( Vaseline) costs pennies per jar as opposed to all that magical glop you see advertised...AND ....it's dermatologist recommended ( look on the Big A at the jars...).

Thats the ONLY reason it gets slammed in beauty product demonstations. Five dollars for a jar that'll last you months as opposed to $100 an ounce for magic milk glops....

Here's the irony....ALL the magical goops and glops we see on shopping channels at 50 bucks a half ounce have a hundred ingredients on their packages....The Grease Lady, the  Bubble Lady, the Goat Men with thier magical milks and glops all gleefully DON'T mention this as they drone on....

What do they all say?

"Your skin DRINKS IT IN!!!!". they gleefully cry..(IN to your body. thru the skin...taking along not only goat or nut magical milk, which are way down on the ingredient labels,...but ALL those other chemicals on the label too!!!

100% Petroleum Jelly works because it blocks drying air on TOP of your skin, and keeps moisture from leaving your skin where you apply it. It doesn't "Drink In" dragging a bunch of other chemicals with it..

Look at your Beekman soap for instance. About 50 ingredients, they all get "drunk in" too!!!

Of course they're all probably safe to use...I use them too...Vaseline, Beekman, Philosophy, Korres etc...

But I don't fool myself into thinking they are magical because the vendors call them "clean beauty"... a made up non regulated self serving claim akin to the vitamin pushers on the TV.....

And you're not eating it!!!

[RedTop]

When my BIL was about 6 years old, he developed a fetish for layering Vaseline on his face.  The one studio portrait I was able to get his family to sit for, young Mr. Vaseline is glowing right in front!  We actually never saw him Vaseline free until he was in high school!  

That boy went thru puberty with only a single number of zits, and to this day has the nicest complexion of ANY man I have ever known!   I have used Vaseline numerous times on skin lesions treated by the dermatologist, and am not to be convinced that it is a dangerous product to use on skin.  

[SloopJohnB]

I find that Vaseline is safe and effective as just about any product out there.  As long as it is used as directed, i.e. not ingested, etc., I feel that it is fine.  I love to use it on chapped lips among other things.  Years ago they used to have a commercial where they showed a mother applying Vaseline on her baby's butt to help prevent diaper rash.  And not much is more fragile than a baby's skin.  

[Othereeeen]

Dermatologist Reommended.

$7.50 ....contains no Magical Milks listed as the 50th ingredient to get "drunk into your skin"....!

[Love my grandkids]

I have some thin skin on parts of my arms and once in awhile get a small scrape leavng a raw spot. Doctor advised treating with Vaseline and it's a miracle cure.

I agree that those damning V are the makers of expensive products that likely don't work any better than petroleum jelly which has been in use for almost a century.

[Othereeeen]

Uh Oh....Houston we may have a tiny hypocritical problem...

I just checked several Beekman products I have here at home....Bar soap,hand and body wash, hand cream, and body cream....

NONE say "Dermatologist Recommended".

ALL have many  multiple ingredients ( that get "drunk into my skin!!!!!!")

Maybe it's not a requirement in the industry for these products, but that's odd isn't it?

Because if they WERE, you can bet the Goat Men would tell us!!!!

Sometimes it's what's NOT said.... that's more telling than what IS!!!!

 Especially when they spend so much time slamming good ole derm-recommended petroleum jelly?

Hmmmmm......

PS: I like Beekman products.... I like Vaseline too!!

[BalletBabe]

I have to share this with you all. When I was 14, I borrowed a sun lamp becauseI wanted a tan in Jan.   I never used one before and so I got real close to it.  Isaw my Dad use a heat lamp many times and thought I could use  it like that.  I woke up that night in terrible pain.  I could not see anything. So my parents rushed me to the ER  I had second degree burns on my face and eye balls. 

For one week, I did nothing but lay in bed.  They had my Mom cover my face with Vaseline. They had us buy it in a tube to keep it clean.  I would wipe off very carefully the top layer and put a new layer of it on daily. 

After about a week,  it turned black and when I wiped theVaseline off one day, all the dead skin wiped off.  I had no scars! My vision returned and after I wiped it off, I looked like I had been to the Beach.  When I went downstairs to show my Mom, She dropped the phone and could not believe it.  My Mom said it was a miracle.  

Vaseline is not your enemy.  That was 50 years ago and I have used it ever since.  

[San Antonio Gal]

@BalletBabe  - that's quite a story.  I know you must have been afraid with your vision affected.  Glad everything worked out well!