The History Of Vaseline Jelly start in 1859, when Robert Chesebrough travelled 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 wounds or burned skin. Curious about petroleum jelly healing,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 Healing Jelly we know today. It was originally called "Wonder Jelly", and Robert Chesebrough decided to re-brand the product as Vaseline Jelly a combination of the German word water (wasser) and Greek word for oil (oleon) And so, in 1872, the brand Vaseline Jelly was born.
