Man who invented vaseline

Everything has an interesting fact behind it, whether it is an invention or its application. Vaseline, which a variant of petroleum, also has one of those facts associated with it. Sir Robert Chesebrough started his career as a chemist who refined kerosene from the oil of the sperm whales.

The man was curious to say the least. He discovered Petroleum in Titusville, Pennsylvania and to discover more of this resource he traveled to Titusville quitting his job.

He went there to research upon the new materials that might be created from this new found fuel. Although it has nothing to do with virgins, btw! I have about a thousand uses for it. And now, pumpkins! Rubbing a generous layer of vaseline over all scraped and cut surfaces solves both problems.

Eh, eh! Vaseline is petroleum based, which eats through condoms, thus is not commonly reccomended for use as a lubricant for sex. It weakens the rubber. If you want extra lubrication, use spermicidal foam or jelly, or lubricating jelly. If you use lubricants with a condom, be sure to only use water-based lubricants, such as K-Y Jelly. Oil-based lubricants, such as Vaseline, can cause condoms to leak or break.

These can seriously weaken latex, causing a condom to tear easily. If you are not sure which product to use, ask your pharmacist. I know of one song by The Flaming Lips, which strangely brings me to my point.

Unlike water-based lubes, sticky Vaseline tends to overstay its welcome in the delicate female ecosystem. This creates mayhem among the helpful bacterial inhabitants, and could cause harmful infections ranging from annoyingly itchy to seriously deadly. Vaseline is great for many things, but you definitely should splurge for your ladyfriend and buy a safer product which is solely dedicated to the purpose.

And give her some flowers once in a while too. When I think about how condoms are dissolved by vaseline. I corelate it with this really strong sense memory of chewing gum, and like eating crackers or some such. Seems to me that it would take a while for the Vaseline to degrade the latex in the condom. According to allmusic. The jack-o-lantern idea is pretty cool, though. Moldy pumpkins are nasty. Four months later, after 2 dermatologists tried everything from freezing to cutting to acids, the warts were still there.

My neighbor at that time, a retired general practitioner, told me to keep duct tape on them and change it only when it got too ragged. A month later, the warts were gone and have never come back. To any new mothers out there: When my kids were in diapers, I used to go through a big jar of Vaseline every days. Neither of them EVER had a diaper rash. Actually these products all have ads out, from posters, bill board, magazine, and tv. The previous person was Hilary Duff.

Other celebrities include John Leguizamo and Amanda Bynes. Though the super bowl commercial was for Doritos, a guy uses duct tape to seal his Doritos. When he leaves the apartment with his friends we get to see his roommate duct taped to the door. One ad for duct tape featured photos of a women duct tapped to power poles with actual duct tape.

Duck Tape, on the other hand, is made by Duck Products, the company that made the stuff famous. Ironically, duct tape is not considered a good product for sealing ducts. Go figure. This also may allay some concerns from those who have spoken out regarding female health issues.

Do the health concerns mentioned previously regarding the use of vaseline apply to all orifices? Johnson and Johnson Permacell created the original design of the tape for the war in Originally designed as a waterproof wrapping to seal ammo boxes, they used off the shelf materials to create it. The backing was cotton duck normally used for cloth medical wrap for its strength and durability. This was coated with a polyurethane sealant to keep it somewhat waterproof and to allow peeling tape off the roll.

Finally the opposite face was coated with a thick layer of rubber based sticky adhesive. There are no records of either the military or the manufacture referring to it as duck tape during this period. There is documented reference by military personnel as referring to it as gun tape due to its use to seal ammo boxes or as the mph tape because you can fix a jeep and still drive at mph without the tape giving out. This ammo box sealing, puke green stuff was wondrous at fixing guns to field repairs of jeeps and even aircraft.

I once stumbled across a reference calling it butt tape, due to a painful hair-removing prank. Near the end of the war one enterprising individual found that it was great at sealing the joint leaks in heating duct, so a new version blossomed with a silver backing.

This was the first documented case of the term duct tape being used, but still no reference of anyone calling it duck tape. Now there was a patching product in use before WW2 called duck tape. This stuff was originally made of linen, then later of cotton but not very sticky at all. Doing a search on the copyright of the name duck tape I found it belongs to Henkel Consumer Adhesives awarded in According to the CEO John Kahl, his father named it that because when people asked for duct tape it sounded like duck tape.

Since there were other companies selling a variety of products also called duct tape, this seemed a good way to make his product standout from the rest. This is also the first instance I have found digging through library newspaper ads and equipment supply catalogs prior to of the stuff being referred to as duck tape. One misconception is that the stuff the average consumer purchased from the hardware store was not the same duct tape that was used to seal HVAC duct systems prior to It only shared a common name.

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