Are Vaseline and other petroleum products environmentally sound? | Leo Hickman
What are the environmental merits, or otherwise, of petroleum-based cosmetic products?
I find Vaseline and similar petroleum products, including many sold for use in eczema, make for good, cheap moisturisers. But are these products environmentally sound? If I thought using them was contributing to excessive use of oil reserves I would try to find alternatives. What do you think?
Jane Green on email
Jane, thanks for the question. I must say that I’m a little concerned about how much of these products you apply to yourself that leads you to wonder whether you might be helping to deplete the world’s oil reserves.
But I take your wider point, and will return at the end of the week to look into the environmental merits, or otherwise, of petroleum-based cosmetic products. Readers’ views are, as ever, most welcome. Maybe we could expand it out to include coal-tar soap? I still love the childhood-evoking smell of that stuff, but what exactly is it?
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