Some of the most effective ingredients in moisturizers are glycerin, hyaluronic acid, shea butter, and petrolatum. Here's why.

Also known as petroleum jelly, petrolatum is made using a byproduct of crude oil extraction. Learn what place it has in the beauty industry.

The best lip balms without petrolatum make use of skin-friendly ingredients like shea butter, lanolin, and beeswax to keep your pout soft and moisturized all day long.

Slugging with Vaseline, Aquaphor, or another petroleum jelly product could cure your dry winter skin, Consumer Reports says.

Artificial petrolatum is a mixture of natural hydrocarbon waxes and refined paraffin oils. Gatsch petrolatum is derived from mixing the by-products of petroleum distillates with paraffin oil.

I covered my face with Vaseline for a full week to see if the slugging benefits for skin are actually worth the hype.

Scaly skin occurs when injury or medical conditions damage the outer layers of skin. Learn more about the symptoms, causes, and treatments here.

Abstract and Introduction Petrolatum rarely causes hypersensitivity reactions. We report a case of a 51-year-old white man with allergic contact dermatitis due to white petrolatum on damaged skin.