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Vaseline
Vaseline is a brand of petroleum jelly based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, lotions, cleansers, deodorants and personal lubricants. The first known reference to the name Vaseline was by the inventor of petroleum jelly, Robert Chesebrough & David Brookes in his U.S. patent for the process of making petroleum jelly (U.S. Patent 127,568) in 1872. "I, Robert Chesebrough, have invented a new and useful product from petroleum which I have named Vaseline?".
The word is believed to come from German Wasser (water) + Greek ?????? (oil) + scientific-sounded ending -ine.[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Vaseline Online Etymology Dictionary] Vaseline was made by the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company until the company was purchased by Unilever in 1987. It has been considered generic in some countries like Chile and Brazil in regards to goods from class 3, where the Unilever products are called Vasenol. Vaseline also has body lotion and Vaseline Intense Care.This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Vaseline". The list of authors you can find on this page.