you’ve gotta love your skin. so, petroleum jelly. love it or hate it? i absolutely adore the stuff! i use it on EVERYTHING (ok. not like that >,<)… but along with its many uses:- (when dying your hair it keeps the gunk off, to soften nail cuticles, for that squeaky door in the middle of the night that is DRIVING YOU CRAZY!) i use it as an overnight intensive moisturiser.
- confessions of
a drama queenmissdollFace:
“i used a bar of dove soap to cleanse, along with vaseline as a makeup remover slash moisturiser until i was 15 years of age. at this point, my best friend had developed an excessive radical (to say the least) facial regime. anyway, this army-like routine of bi-daily cleanse, tone and moisturise, along with the weekly exfoliating and occasional facial mask was something fairly alien to me. especially as this commitment was whacking up a monthly total of about £50 (i may have forgot to mention she was a clinique fanatic).
ok. so i tend to go off topic, and go on a little. but back to the point, (don’t worry this is the juicy part!) this is where the confession comes along… this was ‘secondary school’, one of the hardest battlefields for a young girl trying to stay on top. i was a beauty-holic. i had all the makeup, the million mascaras, eyeshadows, eyeliners, along with everything else. i was the girl that sat at the back of the class putting makeup on and styling my hair while i was supposed to be learning about quadratic equations, i was the girl whose pencilcase consisted of eyeliner and lipgloss. for some reason, everyone was dancing to this many-step facial routine, while i was doing the two-step. everyone thought i had a secretive skin-softening process… and in some ways i guess i did. i was the beautyqueenbee, i couldn’t let them down. then again, i didn’t lie, i just didn’t deny their assumptions. but hey, secrets out, and now you know. ‘not marmite my lovelies, petroleum jelly!!!”
- information about petroleum jelly
ok. so don’t just take my word for it. do your own research. a little background… it is NOT PETROL or related to petrol as someone once thought when i was speaking of the stuff.
“Petroleum Jelly in it’s raw form was a curse to U.S. oil drillers in the late 1800’s. It had a paraffin like consistency that stuck to the shaft of their rigs and caused them to seize up. The chemist, Robert Cheseborough created a gel by distilling thin oil rendered from the raw material the drillers liked to call ‘rod wax’.”-Darlene McFarlane
“In its pure form, petrolatum is considered safe, but its varied and unregulated manufacturing procedures make the goopy jelly vulnerable to contamination by foreign elements, which may or may not pose cancer risks or other health issues. There is generally no way to know how the petrolatum was manufactured.” -Melissa Breyer
(in this case… use vaseline! and not a generic product.)
LASTLY… my mummy =) and many grandmothers still use this as a magic jelly to stop the wrinkles forming. from experience, it works. and i heart the babysoft skin. from the words of rin on the rox ‘like it, love it, hate it, whatever!’
- footnote
my best friend has since stopped using clinique products, and has finally come round to the PJ way of thinking. we both still cleanse, tone and moisturise, her with SIMPLE, and I with CLEAN&CLEAR, and we use our petroleum jelly for intensive night moisturising. talk about a budget slash.
also i think it would also be necessary to mention that her change of heart occured 2 years ago, when she burst out in a ‘rash’ all over her face. not quite acne, and definitely not puberty (we were 20 by this time)… she tried everything… and guess what worked?!
so give it a go next time your at the bathroom sink. though, please do use sparingly after cleansing… works wonders!
big love, xoxo missdollFace
