The oft-maligned ingredient has an unflattering origin story — according to OG petroleum-jelly brand Vaseline, it was discovered in 1859 by a chemist who noticed drillers using a gooey substance ...

Many would consider Vaseline, the petroleum jelly patented in 1865, the OG moisturiser – but the world has found out that it can do so much more than that. Petroleum jelly was discovered in the ...