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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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