The Amazing and Practical Uses of Vaseline

• Facial care: Use Vaseline on your face to remove greasiness, get rid of dryness, and/or relieve razor burn and windburn. Apply a small amount onto your clean damp face and rub thoroughly. You may even warm it up and use it instead of a night cream.
• Back pain relief: Soothe back pain by having warmed up jelly massaged into the affected area in your back.
• Treat a fever: If you're running a temperature, put petroleum jelly in the freezer for a few minutes and rub it onto your forehead while still cold.
• Prevent or treat chafing: If you've chafed your skin, or are sensitive to chafing, apply Vaseline before or after to either prevent or soothe it.

• Protect cuts or scrapes: Although petroleum jelly won't disinfect the damaged area, it will act as protection from dirt and infections. 
• Moisturize dry areas: If your elbows and knees are often dry and ashy, apply some Vaseline to them to soften the skin.
• A remedy for cold sores: Use petroleum jelly to diminish the appearance of cold sores on the skin.
• Relieve skin reactions: To help treat insect bites, poison ivy rashes, and atopic eczema, use a small amount of Vaseline on the skin.
• Heal new tattoos: Got ink? Vaseline is probably the best product you can use to soothe and protect the affected skin area.
• Make vapor rub: Add a few drops of your preferred essential oil to make a homemade version of Vicks Vapor Rub, and relieve cold symptoms.
• Prevent diaper rash: Use petroleum jelly as an alternative to Desitin diaper rash preventative for babies.
• Protect baby's eyes during bath time: In order to prevent products from entering a baby's eyes in the bath, put some Vaseline above the eyebrows. This way, the water will slide off the sides.
•  Pet care: If your pets' paws are cracked, rub in a little jelly to soften them.
• Treat shoe blisters: Help cure or prevent blisters by applying some Vaseline onto the parts that rub against the shoe.
• Heal cracked feet: Spread some Vaseline over your the skin on your feet before bedtime and sleep with socks to heal dry and cracked feet overnight.

Beauty and Cosmetic Uses

• Makeup remover: Use petroleum jelly to clean your face from makeup, or to release fake lashes from the lash line.
• Alternative to mascara: The easiest way to get your hands on clear mascara is to use Vaseline. Use some with a mascara brush to define your eyelashes in a natural look. It gives a glossy shine and is also waterproof.
• Control eyebrows: If your eyebrows need some controlling, use some Vaseline to fix them neatly into place.
• A remedy for chapped lips: Use petroleum jelly instead of a lip balm by applying it to your chapped lips. You may even give flavor to your jelly by adding some Kool-Aid powder. You may make use of this application more regularly if you want to make your lips smoother - simply leave the jelly on for a few minutes, then scrub it off using a toothbrush.
• Avoid getting lipstick on your teeth: By applying some jelly to your teeth before putting on lipstick, you would be preventing lipstick from getting onto your teeth.
• Scalp care: After shampooing your hair, use some petroleum jelly instead of conditioner to soothe scalp itchiness and scaling, as a result of dandruff. You may even use jelly to protect your scalp from the use of chemicals in hair dye, perming, and straightening.
• Treat split ends: If you have split ends in your hair, apply some Vaseline to hide and hydrate them.
• Style hair: Create a choppy hair look by using some jelly on your hair, applying it in a scrunching motion.
• Remove chewing gum from hair: Got chewing gum stuck in your hair? Use Vaseline as the perfect solution for this.

Home Uses

• Repair furniture damage: If your furniture has stains, rings, or scratches, cover the area with a thick coat of petroleum jelly and let it sit. After 24 hours, rub it into the wood, wipe it away, and polish as usual.
• Silence squeaky doors: Spread some Vaseline on the hinges of noisy doors to prevent them from squeaking.
• Loosen rusty locks: If you have a key that doesn't seem to fit into an old rusty lock, rub a thin layer of jelly on the key to reduce the effects from the rust.
• Stain removal: Remove makeup stains from clothes and fabric by rubbing with some jelly before washing.
• Release nail polish bottle caps: To avoid nail polish bottle caps from getting stuck, add some Vaseline to the cap before closing, so next time they open with ease.
• Restore shine to leather items: If your leather bags, shoes, or gloves have lost their shine or softness, rub some petroleum jelly into them.
• Paint protector: Prevent certain areas of a room from being smeared with paint by covering them with a layer of petroleum jelly. Do this for door hinges, glasses, knobs, edges, and more.
• Prolong pumpkin freshness: To prevent your carved pumpkin from rotting or drying out quickly, cover the exposed edges with jelly.
• Keep squirrels away from the bird feeder: Apply some jelly to the pole of your bird feeder, so any cheeky squirrels that try to climb will harmlessly slide off. 
• Create flypaper: Make flypaper by using Vaseline. Simply place some jelly into jar lids and place them around infested areas as a trap.
• Deter ants from your reaching your pet's food: Spread some jelly around the pet dish, all the way to the ground, to shoo away any pestering ants.

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