Your Vaseline pot in your bathroom has other uses than hydrating your lips or your dry skin. From simple health use to extreme tricks, the traditional Vaseline ($4) is a multipurpose product that has a lot of uses. While staying at home under quarantine, try out these 45 tricks and hack instead of loading your bathroom with multiple useless products.
To make sure that your lips are always in tiptop softness, lather a generous amount of Vaseline on and leave it for several minutes. Now you can wash it off with a gentle toothbrush and plenty of water.
1. Completely Kissable Lips
To make sure that your lips are always in tiptop softness, lather a generous amount of Vaseline on and leave it for several minutes. Now you can wash it off with a gentle toothbrush and plenty of water.
2. Extending Perfume Scents
You can get the most out of your favorite scents by applying some petroleum jelly onto the designated pulse points prior to spraying. This will prolong that beautiful smell’s effects.
3. Restoring Leather Products
Petroleum jelly works as a fantastic and affordable leather polish. Whether your leather shoes need buffing prior to a big meeting, or your baseball glove could use some love, lathering the substance onto your leather items before rubbing it off will return the sparkle to your leather goods.
4. The Night of Skin Healing
A powerful Vaseline skin application is a very simple and speedy way to restore body parts suffering from cracking or dehydration. Lather Vaseline onto the affected areas prior to jumping into bed. The following morning, you will awaken to rehydrated, smooth skin.
5. Maintaining Shaver Quality
Shaving razorblades have a habit of rusting, which can be avoided if you consistently apply a bit of petroleum jelly to the hygiene tools after every shave. You can now enjoy a prolonged usage of the otherwise expensive products.
6. Moisturizing and Night Cream Goodness
Contrary to popular belief, Vaseline does not cause pimples or blocked pores. Many people wrongly think that smothering their faces with the substance will lead to stuck pores and unwanted visitors to their faces. Petroleum jelly is non-comedogenic, which means that its place as a moisturizer for the face is secure.
7. Elbows, Gentle to the Touch
These often-scratchy corners of our arms will benefit magnificently from a bit of daily Vaseline rubbing. Just make sure that you aren’t wearing a long-sleeved top when doing so to avoid staining.
8. A Remedy for Blisters
Breaking in new shoes is a common part of life. Unfortunately, so are the ensuing blisters. You really do need to carry around a small tub of Vaseline if you’re committed to pulling off that new look.
Rather than suffering from each step, rub some Vaseline onto your blisters to make sure that they don’t worsen before you kick off your shoes for a satisfying relief.
9. Avoiding Irritating Patchiness from Bottled Tan
Bottled tan products are a fantastic way to cheat the sun, but their results can look very strange when you come out looking patchy. To ensure that your treatment looks completely natural and consistent, make sure to smother the dryer patches of skin on your body with Vaseline. These include hands, ankles, elbows and feet. You can now step out in confidence, looking like you spent a few weeks on a tropical island!
10. A Solution to Tricky Fire-Starting
The outdoorsy types will love this one. Of course, Vaseline is not inherently flammable and completely safe, but it can act as a brilliant lubricant. Start by dipping a cotton ball in petroleum jelly. Now, light the cotton ball and observe as the Vaseline acts in the same way that candle wax does, acting as a wicking agent. Once heated, the gas will ignite in a manageable and harmless manner (the petroleum will not burn). This flaming cotton ball will now burn for quite some time as the petroleum jelly will slow its progress.
11. DVD and CD Repair
Your favorite movies and albums don’t need to be trashed if they become too scratched. You can instead buff out the damages by applying a bit of petroleum jelly to the scratched areas and then wiping them carefully with a smooth cloth or proper CD cleaning material.
12. Furniture Restoral
Unbalanced moisture levels in furniture can often lead to ugly scuffs and stains forming. You’d never guess that Vaseline is actually a fantastic spot remover. All it takes is a full day’s worth of treatment following application.
13. A Waxy Solution
Candles are a lovely but messy decoration for the home. You can remove the spilled and hardened wax by coating the surrounding mess with petroleum jelly for an easier removal with a damp cloth.
14. Reversing the Chapping
As if the common cold wasn’t horrid enough to deal with already, your nose often starts to chap after too much tissue usage grating the soft skin.
Vaseline can bring much relief to the affected area, but it will also enable healing, making sure that your skin enjoys the needed moisture to avoid more chapping occurring.
15. Stain Busting
Using a wet cloth, petroleum jelly will remove makeup stains out of bedding and clothing.
16. Keep the Jack-o’-Lantern Burning!
This is a really fun use for Vaseline. When Halloween comes around, try coating the inside of your spooky pumpkin carving to extend their display life, easily allowing them to last days leading up to the terrifying night.
17. Chewing Gum Crises Resolved
It happens to all of us (especially the younger ones), chewing gum getting stuck in the hair. Whether young or old, this can be a painful and scary moment. You really don’t need to chop a clump of your hair out, however, when you can simply lather the pesky piece with some Vaseline. Make sure to apply a liberal amount and massage it into the affected area properly. You will now find that the gum will stop resisting and start sliding off, pain-free! Vaseline is also perfect for removing a collection of sticky substances.
18. Easily Opened Nail Polish
You don’t have to exert any force when trying to unstick your nail polish bottle if you line the lid with petroleum jelly.
19. Painless Earring Replacement
No one enjoys replacing earrings once the hole has healed a bit from lack of use. Lubricate your earlobes with Vaseline prior to wearing them for a painless and smooth insertion.
20. Dye your Hair, not your Face
Next time it’s time to dye your hair back to your preferred color, make sure to defend your hairline and ears by lathering on some petroleum jelly. This will protect your skin from dye, even if some happens to splash onto it.
21. Full, Healthy Lashes
When it comes to lash lusciousness, why not try petroleum jelly instead of your usual commercial products? Dab a bit of the jelly to your lash line to bring out their body and shimmer.
22. Safely Unsticking Fake Lashes
The party is over, but your fake eyelashes are stubbornly hanging on. If you apply some petroleum jelly to your lash line, you’ll find that they come off without tearing anything natural out.
23. Manicured Perfection
Coat your fingernails with some petroleum jelly prior to applying nail polish. The Vaseline will contain the nail polish from spilling out onto your fingers.
24. Concealed Split Ends
If you don’t have the time to visit the hairdresser for a split end treatment, you can smoothen together these pesky trimmings by lathering them with a bit of petroleum jelly.
25. A Handy Lip Balm
If you’re a fan of Kool-Aid, you might want to try mixing a red-colored flavor sachet with one tablespoon of petroleum jelly. Now rub the mixture onto your lips and observe the sleek, vigorous shine!
26. Bringing your Legs to Life
Combine petroleum jelly with your preferred liquid bronzer and then lather your legs up to make them gloss like never before.
27. Fabulous Cheeks and Eyelids
Applying a portion of petroleum jelly to your face is an inexpensive method for achieving that gleaming style, provided that your highlighter has run out. Apply a bit to your eyelids, cheekbones, and forehead.
28. Car Battery Care
Amazingly, your car battery quality and life can be maintained in a few easy steps with Vaseline. Start by disconnecting the battery terminals before scrubbing them nicely with steel wool. Put the terminals back in place now and lather them with petroleum jelly in order to protect them from the weather’s effects, repelling corrosion for the foreseeable future.
29. Exfoliation Implementation
A bit of physical exfoliating goes a long way towards maintaining gentle and moisture-brimming skin. You can create a nifty body scrub through combining some sea salt, or sugar, and Vaseline.
Collect some of your balms with a free hand and begin slathering it onto your damp body while maintaining a circular direction. Once you are satisfied, clean the paste off with water and soap before applying the necessary volume of lotion.
30. Beating Self-Tanning Inconsistencies
Avoid self-tanning patches by applying some petroleum jelly onto your knees, elbows and throughout your wrists and ankles prior to the treatment to make sure that dehydrated skin does not cause inconsistencies.
31. Spruce up your Hair
Hot weather or a natural lack of oil will cause your hair to dry up and begin frizzing. To return your hair to bouncy, glossy goodness, apply a small portion of Vaseline around the highest layer of your locks.
The rebellious hairs will now fall in line, along with a newfound gloss you didn’t know was possible!
32. Pet Paw Power
Animal paws, like human feet, can suffer from dryness and cracking as well. Check your pet’s paws for pad dryness.
If you find that the skin there has broken from dryness, your beloved pooch or feline will appreciate some Vaseline application. If you find they can’t help licking the stuff off, put them in a recovery collar for a while.
33. Popping a Ring Off
This is one of the most classic uses for Vaseline: unsticking a ring from a finger. We just can’t help testing whether obviously too small rings will fit nicely. You need not have to wear it for eternity, however, as the right lubrication will slide the jewelry off in no time.
34. Reigning in Uncooperative Eyebrows
Are you suffering from hair raising eyebrows? Tame them with just a dab of Vaseline, which will not only restrain them but add a new shine and sleekness to the furry eye protectors.
35. Protect your Teeth from Lipstick
Lipstick is one of the most common and attractive types of makeup, but no one wants to be seen with red or pink flecks on their pearls. By applying the tiniest dab of Vaseline on your front teeth, they will be guarded against lipstick buildup.
36. No More Shower-Time Tears
If you struggle to keep stinging shampoo out of your eyes, you may want to try rubbing some petroleum jelly on top of your eyebrows. This will form a moat around your eyes, allowing shampoo-filled water to be diverted away from these sensitive areas.
37. Keeping Squirrels Grounded
The food you buy for birds in your garden feeder often gets claimed by conniving squirrels. You can keep them from climbing in uninvited by slathering your bird feeder’s entrance with Vaseline. The critters will now be unable to grip onto the little ledge.
Do not worry about your little bird friends, as they can easily pop into the bird feeder undeterred.
38. Avoiding Dye Residue
You only ever want your hair to be dyed, not your face. You can protect the skin there by lathering a protecting layer across your hairline. This will ensure that your particularly messy friend doesn’t splatter your face with the chemicals.
39. Keeping Windows in Prime Condition
Painting isn’t everyone’s forte, and lining window frames through protective tape is a chore. Rather than using tape, try lathering the edges of your windows with petroleum jelly. This will ensure that any rogue paint splotches can be conveniently cleaned off.
40. A Healing Balm
Wounds and burns are nasty, but they need not remain on your skin as scars. Once healed enough, apply some petroleum jelly to the injuries to speed up their healing and hide the fact that you were ever hurt in the first place.
41. Easy Car Door Opening
If you have a vehicle that isn’t frequently used, you might find that its doors take force to pry open. Simply lather the rubber seals of your car doors with Vaseline to ensure a smooth and easy opening and closing. This application can also be used for refrigerator doors.
42. Uncooperative Shower Curtains
There are few things more annoying that being unable to get into the shower because the curtain is sticking. Lubricating the curtain rail with Vaseline will resume normal shower operation, just make sure to swish the curtain back and forth several times.
43. Concealing Split Ends Successfully
Use Vaseline as a temporary way to control and conceal split ends by smothering the uncooperative areas with a bit of the jelly. When you get a break, however, you should probably call up your friend or professional for proper treatment!
44. Easily Sliding Refrigerator Drawers
There are few things more frustrating than being hungry and not being able to get any food out of a sticking fridge drawer. Thankfully, a bit of Vaseline will have you munching in no time!
All the uncooperative drawer needs is a light lather of Vaseline paste around the exterior sides of the drawer in the place where the sliding tracks are. Now that the right lubrication has been applied, enjoy uninterrupted refrigerator access.
45. A Pleasant Time in the Loo
Hemorrhoids are truly unpleasant to suffer through, at least without the right care. Your backside will benefit greatly from some Vaseline attention. You can do this by rubbing some petroleum jelly around your derriere. You are now effectively lubricating the passing of stools for a healthier and resistance-free time in the toilet. While Vaseline is not an effective treatment for hemorrhoids, and you may still experience some pain, you are guaranteed an easier effort when nature calls.