uses for Vaseline
Brilliant Beauty Uses for Vaseline
Use Vaseline to Soften Dry, Cracked Feet
As a home remedy for dry feet and cracked heels, Vaseline works great. For best results, slather your feet in Vaseline and put on a pair of socks, which will help your feet absorb as much as possible. It can also sooth, heal, and protect your pet’s paws, especially in winter.
Use It as a Night Cream or Moisturizer
No, it won’t clog your pores. The greasy consistency of petroleum jelly might make you think that putting it on your face would leave you covered in pimples, but this is not the case. Vaseline is non-comedogenic and can be used as an effective facial moisturizer. It doesn’t soak in very readily, however, and is best used as a night cream to avoid odd looks on the morning commute.
Tame and Control Unruly Eyebrows
For eyebrows that are in need of a trim or are particularly unruly, dab a little on each brow to keep them in line.
Highlight Your Cheeks
Use Vaseline as a cheap cheek highlighter. Apply a miniscule amount for a glowing, dewy look.
Use Vaseline to Remove Eyelash Extension Glue
Avoid pulling out your real lashes when trying to yank off a particularly stubborn false lash. Use Vaseline to unstick the glue by dabbing some between your finger and thumb and carefully rubbing the offending lashes until the glue/false lash eases off.
Condition and Mend Cuticles
Do your hands get dry? Are your cuticles cracking? Blob Vaseline around your cuticles and gently rub it in to stop them from feeling sore and prevent further damage and aid the healing process.
Prevent Hair Dye From Staining Your Skin
To avoid the skin on your hairline and face from getting stained when you’re dying your hair, draw a line of Vaseline across your forehead and you should avoid that infuriating freshly dyed giveaway of drips of color down your forehead. Be careful not to get any on your hair, however, as it will prevent the dye from taking well.
Keep Lashes Moisturized
As part of your daily beauty ritual, try adding in a little lash TLC. Vaseline for eyelashes isn’t something that might immediately spring to mind, but applying a small dab to both lashes nightly will help keep them soft and strong. And on days when you don’t feel like using mascara, a little of this glossy stuff makes your eyelashes look wet (longer and darker).
Stop Tanning Streaks
To help avoid a patchy tan and prevent those giveaway concentrated orange patches of fake tan that tell the world you’ve just been tangoed, rub Vaseline into trouble spots such as ankles, behind the knees, and on the hands. This will help you tan more evenly.
Extend Perfume Staying Power
If you’re a bit of a sweaty Betty, the pleasant odor of overpriced perfume might not last the night, let alone the journey. Draw out the longevity of your perfume by applying a blob of Vaseline to your wrists before spritzing.
As a Make-Up Remover
Dip a cotton swab or Q-tip into Vaseline to gently remove make-up from your eyes before you wash. The Vaseline residue around your eyes will aid the remnants of make-up in coming off when you wash your face.
Stop Lipstick From Getting on Your Teeth
Avoid the embarrassment of rouge on your gnashers by dotting a weenie blob of the wonder jelly on your front teeth before applying your lipstick.
Turn Eye Shadows Into Cream Shadows
Add a dollop of petroleum jelly to an old eye shadow and give it a new lease of life by transforming it into a sultry cream shadow.
Keep Shampoo Out of Eyes
Avoid tears at bath time by applying a thin line of Vaseline just above the eyebrows, encouraging the water and soap suds to run down the side of the face rather than into the eyes.
Keep Elbows Soft
Vaseline on the elbows is a tried-and-tested method to keep a troublesome dry spots baby soft. Blob it on when you’re not wearing a favorite top that might get greasy and stained.
Hide Split Ends
Dab a little Vaseline to any rogue split ends and keep them under wraps until your next trim. Remember, in this instance, less is more.
Neatly Paint Fingernails and Toenails
Use a cotton swab or Q-tip to trace around your cuticles with Vaseline before commencing a manicure or pedicure. As well as moisturizing the skin, it will make varnish application a lot neater, as any overzealous brush strokes that go over the edge of the nail will wipe off easily.
Avoid Struggling to Open Nail Polish
After you finish using nail polish, rub some Vaseline around the edge of the thread. This will make it far easier to open the bottle up the next time you need to use it. This applies to all jars and things with screw lids!
