You might be surprised of all of the things Vaseline can do
for you. It just celebrated its 141st birthday, so there must be a reason why
it has lasted through all of these years!
1. It makes your eyelashes grow: Lather Vaseline all over your eyelashes overnight and watch them thicken, even without a prescription!
2. To Soften dry and cracked elbows.
3. Dry cuticles: Store a mini-Vaseline container in your purse and utilize for emergency dry cuticle moments.
4. For kissable, luscious lips: Fall is a beast for drying out summary, dewy lips. Vaseline is there for you and your irresistible pout. You can also mix Vaseline with Kool-Aid powder and make a colored (and flavored) lip gloss.
5. To Help your scent stay: Softly rub Vaseline all over your perfume points (i.e. the cleavage, behind the ear, neck, and wrist) and your scent will last longer!
6. It is a misconception that Vaseline clogs pores, so smear it all over your face, neck and arms for softer skin.
7. Lipstick Smudges: Spread a little Vaseline over your teeth and lipstick smudges be gone!
8. To remove last night’s battlefield makeup: Apply some to a Q-tip and have a pretty day.
9. Perfect for an eye-shadow/blush boost: Apply some under your eye shadow for a glossy affect. Apply on the apples of your cheeks for a dewy glow. Mix with lipstick for a cream blusher!
10. It eases eyebrow plucking: Tame your eyebrows and lube up the under-skin so you can pluck with ease.
11. Prevent hair dye from seeping onto your forehead: Softly dab all over your hairline and keep that box hair dye from dying your forehead the color of your new hairdo.
12. To make your accessories look brand spankin’ new: New job interview? Scuff the crap-ole-la out of your patent leather heals thanks to pitcher night? Put a small dab on your shoes and shine away!
13. Hide Split Ends: Haven’t had a haircut since your budget only allows you go to Great Clips for a quickie? Hide damaged ends with a small amount on your ends.
14. Remove makeup stains for your clothes. Dab a little with a damp cloth.
15. To Prevent spray-tan streaks: Rub all over the backs of your knees, ankles and hands to prevent seriously frightening spray tan lines.
16. To get those O.P.I. nail polish bottles open: Is it just me or do I always try to get those babies open after I shower. Make it easier for next time and rub Vaseline under the cap. Then go ahead and do a D.I.Y manicure.
17. It’s your new exfoliating body wash: Mix with sea salt and come out of the shower feeling soft, and sexy.
18. Remove false eyelash glue from your lash line.
19. Can be used to smooth and soothe skin after shaving.
20. Lubricates ear lobes and helps to make earring insertion easy and painless.
* Bonus - Once you carve your Halloween pumpkin, rub Vaseline on the exposed edges. It keeps it from rotting or going dry.
1. It makes your eyelashes grow: Lather Vaseline all over your eyelashes overnight and watch them thicken, even without a prescription!
2. To Soften dry and cracked elbows.
3. Dry cuticles: Store a mini-Vaseline container in your purse and utilize for emergency dry cuticle moments.
4. For kissable, luscious lips: Fall is a beast for drying out summary, dewy lips. Vaseline is there for you and your irresistible pout. You can also mix Vaseline with Kool-Aid powder and make a colored (and flavored) lip gloss.
5. To Help your scent stay: Softly rub Vaseline all over your perfume points (i.e. the cleavage, behind the ear, neck, and wrist) and your scent will last longer!
6. It is a misconception that Vaseline clogs pores, so smear it all over your face, neck and arms for softer skin.
7. Lipstick Smudges: Spread a little Vaseline over your teeth and lipstick smudges be gone!
8. To remove last night’s battlefield makeup: Apply some to a Q-tip and have a pretty day.
9. Perfect for an eye-shadow/blush boost: Apply some under your eye shadow for a glossy affect. Apply on the apples of your cheeks for a dewy glow. Mix with lipstick for a cream blusher!
10. It eases eyebrow plucking: Tame your eyebrows and lube up the under-skin so you can pluck with ease.
11. Prevent hair dye from seeping onto your forehead: Softly dab all over your hairline and keep that box hair dye from dying your forehead the color of your new hairdo.
12. To make your accessories look brand spankin’ new: New job interview? Scuff the crap-ole-la out of your patent leather heals thanks to pitcher night? Put a small dab on your shoes and shine away!
13. Hide Split Ends: Haven’t had a haircut since your budget only allows you go to Great Clips for a quickie? Hide damaged ends with a small amount on your ends.
14. Remove makeup stains for your clothes. Dab a little with a damp cloth.
15. To Prevent spray-tan streaks: Rub all over the backs of your knees, ankles and hands to prevent seriously frightening spray tan lines.
16. To get those O.P.I. nail polish bottles open: Is it just me or do I always try to get those babies open after I shower. Make it easier for next time and rub Vaseline under the cap. Then go ahead and do a D.I.Y manicure.
17. It’s your new exfoliating body wash: Mix with sea salt and come out of the shower feeling soft, and sexy.
18. Remove false eyelash glue from your lash line.
19. Can be used to smooth and soothe skin after shaving.
20. Lubricates ear lobes and helps to make earring insertion easy and painless.
* Bonus - Once you carve your Halloween pumpkin, rub Vaseline on the exposed edges. It keeps it from rotting or going dry.
46 comments:
Don't use it as a personal lubricant though, ladies - bad idea AND it destroys condoms
i was wondering if someone was going to say that, lol.
Great tips...where can I find the jewel-encrusted Vaseline jar! Any great tip for the Anonymous folks...don't use as lube!
This is awesome, it says 20 but I wonder if not 19 uses, since he kind of says the same thing twice #17 & #18? One says wash, scrub, but basically the same thing right? what are you washing with Vaseline/Petroleum jelly though?
I've been known to use a few of these vaseline tricks–#4 is my fav–but now I have a few more to add to my list of vaseline usefulness. Thanks!
you can also use Vaseline to remove pigment on the lips from long-last lipsticks.
I love Vaseline and all of these tips except one are perfect. I really do advise you don't use it all over your face. ESPECIALLY not where you can see pores (for me that is right around my nose). I used some once because I had a dry patch of skin and had a spot of acne for 6 months that did not go away. When I told my mother she said her mother did the same thing one time and warned all of them to NEVER put vaseline all over your face (just areas like your eyelids, maybe your cheekbones, or chin, or forehead, for me those areas are very low risk with acne).
If it thickens eyelashes wil it also thicken (over tweezed) eyebrows? It is deffinantly good for chapped or sunburned lips, it works overnite.
I got a crazy rash on my face and chest at the beach, not sure if it was bad sunscreen, over-exposure, or some sand-mite, and was freaking out about how to get rid of it. My dad suggested Vaseline and it was gone within 2 days. Nothing else worked (Aveeno, Seabreeze, Cocoa Butter, Vitamin E Oil, etc...) but Vaseline us now my new go-to for my sensitive skin.
Vaseline is also good to put on toddler andkids cheeks and nose before going out to play in the snow. It protects against wind burn and those dry red cheeks kids get in the winter. Just make sure it doesn't get near their eyes.
Toxic! It's a petroleum product! Do not use! Please especially on your children. It is toxic!
another good one. put a little on a toothbrush (obviously not the one you brush your teeth with) and LIGHTLY brush in small circles on your lips to exfoliate, then leave on overnight.
Holy crap. Who knew Vaseline was so darn versatile? Now... where do I get one of those blinged out jars of it?!? I NEED IT!!!
Yes, it is a petroluem product, but its actually the byproduct of petroleum aquasition. It is completely safe and actually very good for you. The man who developed it ate a tablespoon of petroleum jelly every day (don't know how he thought that up...) and he was very healthy and lived to a very old age. It's not the same as rubbing gasoline on your body. Almost every beauty/bath product contains petroleum products.
Agreed 8cowdot. not to mention it goes through a purifying process as well. I love when people use this logic because to me it's like, "poop is made from a lot of water, and since poop is toxic to consume, we shouldn't consume water either."
#6 and the Bonus seems contradictory to me. Either way, I don't like to use Vaseline. It seems gross, messy, and unnatural.
I follow your blog...but unfortuanately don't visit as often as I should. I'm really glad I noticed this post...thank you so much for the Vaseline uses...it's kind of like Baking Soda...really inexpensive and very effective for many things. Love the bling jar!
May the New Year be joyous and healthy for you!
All the best,
Vivian
i read to rub it onthe silver part of a light bulb. you will not have trouble unscrewing the bulb when taking it out of the socket.
Sorry but I can't see that #17 and #18 are anywhere alike. Also don't know why when people don't like something they try to make others not like it too. These people must be very lonely people!
Two words that need to be added to #17 are "be careful"!! Makes ur shower slick as a skating rink!!
It is the best for a diaper rash and sore baby bottom too!! It is also the ONLY topical ointment I have found that really helps control exzema, and believe me we have used EVERYTHING,from cancer causing perscriptions to over the counter creams!
My geeky, amazing boyfriend just said he used Vaseline on a Rubix cube to make it easier to maneuver when trying to solve it.
Love all the additional suggestions and ideas everyone! Thanks so much!
Great when you have a cold too to prevent skin from chaffing. Have some on my upper lip and under my nose right now since I've been sick all week.
I use it for exzema on my hands and it has done wonders to help control it. Also Vaseline is good for toenail fungus.
No way it can make your lashes grow! If that was the case Latisse wouldn't be in business. The only thing it'll do is "condition" your lashes, or really, make them feel greasy.
I put it on dry, cracked heels after showering, put socks on and in a few days your feet will be soft
I had a cap fall off of my tooth once and filled it with Vaseline. It stuck until I got to the dentist. Love Vaseline! So versatile!
Rub over your toenails before you go to bed. Makes your nails look healthy,takes away any dry spots from using nail products, removers etc.
I'm sure Vaseline doesn't technically MAKE your eyelashes grow. I'm sure what it does is to help keep your eyelashes from drying and breaking so they can grow to their potential. OH, and to get the "blinged out" Vaseline container? Go buy some Vaseline and glue on clear jewels. Haha. That easy! I'm totally using a lot of these suggested, btw. Thanks for sharing!
I use it when curling my hair, when I'm fresh out of hairspray/gel/mousse. I dab a little on my ends before curling and curl, I have straight hair, and it keeps my curls intact all day! But be forewarned the vaseline does stain your curler/straightener and smells funny, be sure to wash clean the iron after cooling and spray your hair with some body spray and everything is good as new :)
I haven't tried it yet, but I've read a lot of places to put it around your nail before painting your nails, and the extra polish will just wipe right off, no remover needed! Worth a try, I think!
Strip nakid, cover your entire body in vaseline and pretend you ate a slug!!
If you're going to put vasaline on your eyelashes I would suggest using a mascara wand.. This will make the application much easier.
For some reason not sure why it makes bruises fade faster. And please don't try this one (Anonymous said...
i read to rub it on the silver part of a light bulb. you will not have trouble unscrewing the bulb when taking it out of the socket.
January 6, 2012 11:41 PM ) you could start a fire.
Great post!
I can absolutely say that it actually DOES make eyebrows & eyelashes thicker, almost everyone notices how thick my lashes and brows got. Vaseline doesn't have lash or brow lengthening agents in it, but the key word here is conditioning, it conditions your lashes and brows. Just like when you condition your hair, it grows healthier and thicker.
Prevents bruises!
When our kids were little and ran into everything, we would smear vaseline on the 'owie' and, no bruise, very little swelling.
My mom learned that working as a nurse in emerg. Kids especially, would come in after a vehicle accident and even if they weren't terribly hurt, could have really bad bruising that would scare them, so the nurses would smear vaseline on their faces just so the kids would have one less thing to be frightened by after their ordeal.
I've been using vaseline for years around my toenails before I paint them! The extra paint you get on your skin flakes right off, and it conditions your tootsies at the same time!
I've been using it all through my pregnancy to keep stretch marks away. So far so good!! (i'm 8 months now)
This is an awesome list. I will be putting Vaseline on my eye lashes tonight!
I put it all over my feet and then put socks over the top and leave them on either overnight or for a few hours and when I remove my socks my feet are baby soft and super-moisturized!
I also use it under my eyes when I'm tinting my eyelashes. It prevents the skin getting stained by the tint and also holds the papers on that I place under my eyes as an added precaution to prevent staining.
It also works after getting a tatoo so when you shower the water could slide of and won't damage the ink
this is a great article! Can't wait to try most of these out. Thanks for sharing!
I have really thin eyelashes so I hope that the Vaseline trick works!!!
To the person who said "use it on a tattoo" you NEVER use Vaseline on a tattoo. Ever. Ever ever. But these other ideas sound pretty nifty, minus the one about putting it on lightbulbs. That just does NOT sound safe.
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