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petroleum jelly

noun

  1. another name for petrolatum
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The video was displayed alongside a walk-in cooler that featured an exercise bench cast in petroleum jelly.

Many marketers were visibly confused until she explained that the term referred to slathering one’s face with petroleum jelly before bedtime to seal in other serums and moisturizers.

Look for products that contain petroleum jelly, castor oil and glycerin, Rogers said.

Quante points out that other forms of removal, “like lighting a match, trying to suffocate it with petroleum jelly or essential oils” can also result in the tick regurgitating stomach contents into you.

According to his book, he looked for other substances, like petroleum jelly, to doctor the baseball.

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