Petrolatum
11/14/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
Petrolatum – toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts
Petrolatum is a colorless or pale-yellow, semi-solid byproduct of petroleum or crude oil refining. The origins of petrolatum lie in the Pennsylvanian city of Titusville, where it started as a thick gel from oil wells that were eventually distilled and cleaned by American chemist Robert Chesebrough. Hundreds of years after its initial discovery, petrolatum has […]
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