Petroleum Jelly | Fatal Conveniences™
SuperLife with Darin Olien
Darin Olien
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Petroleum jelly products have been part of the American skincare market for 100 years. It's been marketed as a makeup remover, a skin moisturizer and even a salve for cuts and burns. Even if you think of Vaseline as something your grandmother used, you'd be surprised how many products still contain petroleum jelly. But what is this stuff really made of? And is it safe?
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| 0:00.0 | It's that time of the week for another fatal convenience. |
| 0:06.0 | This is a bite-sized segment that addresses some of society's fatal |
| 0:10.5 | conveniences and the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them. |
| 0:16.1 | I define fatal conveniences as the things we may be doing because the world we live in |
| 0:26.2 | makes us believe we have to. Tap water, shampoo, sunglasses, food. |
| 0:29.0 | I dive into the hidden truths behind some of our everyday choices that could not only be harming us, but even |
| 0:37.2 | killing us. |
| 0:38.8 | So let's dive in. |
| 0:39.8 | Hey everybody, welcome to the show thanks for tuning in this is another |
| 0:46.2 | installment of the infamous the powerful fatal conveniences it's so funny that I have to do these things because big |
| 0:55.1 | industry, big profit does not look out for you, your children, your family, and |
| 1:01.5 | us as a society. So we have to sheriff ourselves, we have to police |
| 1:07.7 | ourselves in the understanding that not everything that we buy on the shelves and the boxes and the cans and the bottles |
| 1:17.3 | And in this case our next fatal convenience |
| 1:20.3 | Petroleum jelly is not great to put on or certainly not in your body. So this |
| 1:28.6 | next fatal convenience was inspired by a female friend that was using Vaseline on her face to take off makeup. |
| 1:38.3 | And I remember throughout my childhood, my mom would slather Vassiline on her face. |
| 1:44.0 | So I'm assuming that many of you are not using Vassiline anymore, |
| 1:50.4 | but I realize that Vassiline has been around for a very long time, it's still being sold, |
| 1:55.2 | it's still being marketed to, so I had to do it. This fatal convenience is petroleum jelly. |
| 2:00.4 | So petroleum jelly is a mixture of hydrocarbons that comes from highly refined processes |
| 2:08.3 | from the oil industry. I could probably stop there in the fatal convenience for you guys to go, yeah, to put it on your |
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