The Incredible Story Behind Vaselines Eccentric Inventor

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Vaseline is older than you may think. The gooey substance traces its roots back to the mid 1800s, during the first oil rushes of the United States. It wouldn’t be long until vaseline, having been derived from a waste by-product from oil drilling, became a mainstay in medicine cabinets across the country, all from the unrelenting efforts of one man, who was so incredibly passionate about his vaseline invention that he would reveal in his 90s, that he had been eating it for decades. An amazing story of dedication, marketing ingenuity, and elite business prowess, interwoven through one of the most important discoveries in American history, that of oil, Robert Chesebrough found himself at the forefront of late 19th century business, even able to not only survive the Great Depression but thrive throughout it. • New videos every Thursday. • Sources • [1] https://www.damninteresting.com/curio... • [2] / a-most-slippery-man-amusing-notes-on-the-i... • [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/bu... • [4] https://29secrets.com/beauty/the-stor... • [5] https://www.vaseline.com/us/en/who-we... • [6] https://cosmeticsandskin.com/companie...

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