Vaseline
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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 lubricants.
The first known reference to the name Vaseline® was by the inventor of petroleum jelly, Robert Chesebrough 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 έλαιον (=oil).[1]
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.
[edit] References
- ^ "Etymology of Vaseline". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Retrieved 26-8-2008.
