Axle grease as a beauty cream?
Jul 26th 2010adminBest practices for healthy skin & Skin care products
“Axle grease! On my face?”
“Wouldn’t dream of it… What an idea!”
Not so fast… Didn’t your grandmother (maybe your mother?) say you didn’t need any of those expensive creams and lotions to care for your skin? Nothing, they said, works better than petroleum jelly.
Now, don’t be too hard on them. They didn’t have much to choose from. Many of the so-called beauty products of their day were simply nice-smelling “goop in a jar.”
And because in those days other “beauty products” sometimes contained suspect chemicals, Great Aunt Maude was much better off using her petroleum jelly.
But you don’t have that excuse. You can select from an endless array of skin care products produced under strict regulations designed to ensure that your choice is safe to use.
Not necessarily effective, but certainly safe.
Why did I say “axle grease”?
Because petroleum jelly is the “white grease” taken off early in the refining of petroleum. After that, the rest goes on to fuel your vehicles and lubricate their moving parts.