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HOW COSMETIC PRODUCTS CAME TO BE.
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Cotton Buds

We just can’t help sticking them in our ears. Those fuzzy-ended cotton bundles of endless poking joy were invented in 1923 by one Leo Gerstenzang, a Polish-born American. It is an anecdotal tale, but perfectly plausible, after all, many things … Continue reading

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Petroleum Jelly

The changing face of Vaseline

In 1859, a young chemist from Brooklyn, Robert Augustus Chesebrough, went to view an oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, United States to see what commercial potential this newly discovered petroleum had. There he discovered “rod wax” (as the drillers called … Continue reading

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