The history of Vaseline started in 1859, when Robert Chesebrough traveled to Titusville, a small town in Pennsylvania. That s where oil workers had been using rod wax, an unrefined form of petroleum jelly then just a simple by-product of the drilling they were working on to heal wounded or burnt skin.

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Young chemist Robert Chesebrough began to study the substance then known as rod wax. Through various processes of refinement and purification, he distilled a lighter and transparent gel, which he then patented in 1865 and is the Vaseline petroleum jelly we know today.