Vaseline

Vaseline® is a brand of petroleum jelly based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, lotions, cleansers, deodorants and lubricants.

The first known reference to the name Vaseline® was by the inventor of petroleum jelly, Robert Chesebrough in his U.S. patent for the process of making petroleum jelly (U.S. Patent 127,568) in 1872. "I, Robert Chesebrough, have invented a new and useful product from petroleum which I have named Vaseline…".

The word is believed to come from German Wasser (=water) + Greek έλαιον (=oil).

It has been considered generic in some countries like Chile and Brazil in regards to goods from class 3, where the Unilever products are called Vasenol.

Translation

The word "Vaseline" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Danish, German, French, Dutch, Vietnamese.

Translation(s) in other languages: Arabic: فازلين, Bulgarian: Вазелин, Spanish: Vaselina, Esperanto: Vazelino, Korean: 바셀린, Indonesian: Vaselin, Japanese: ワセリン, Norwegian (Bokmål): Vaselin, Polish: Wazelina, Portuguese: Vaselina, Russian: Вазелин, Swedish: Vaselin, Turkish: Vazelin, Ukrainian: Вазелін, Cantonese: 凡士林, Chinese: 凡士林.