petrolatum
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Applying a thick layer of lip balm with moisturizing ingredients like petrolatum or shea butter before bedtime will also nourish your lips and prevent chapping, Rogers said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
The company launched in 2014 with a skeleton line of goods including a face mist, a foundation, and a small tube of watered-down petrolatum, the Balm Dotcom, branded as a “do-everything skin salve.”
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2019
It’s a less specialized, not-as-portable way to tackle the problem, but Joshua Zeichner, dermatologist at Mount Sinai, recommends something as simple as a lotion with skin-protecting ingredients like triple-purified petrolatum.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2018
Sweet Sweat, it turns out, is a holistic “workout enhancer” that stimulates perspiration and circulation with a mix of White Snow petrolatum, Brazilian Carnauba wax, Acai pulp, and pomegranate, jojoba, and virgin Camelina oils.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2018
Fluid or liquid petrolatum is much used now in the form of a spray in the treatment of acute and chronic catarrh and after irritant applications to the nasal cavities.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
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