I have a tub of Vaseline and have hardly scratched the surface. I’m curious whether anyone uses it for anything other than their lips.
I use it to prevent chafing when swimming.
Lubricating the cork in a saxophone neck or a clarinet tenon. It turned out to be not a good idea at all, since the Vaseline speaks into the cork and dissolves the glue holding the cork to the instrument. But until then it does a great job.
speaks into the cork
Soon, Cork could no longer ignore those dark whispers, those awful voices. Cork knew what needed to be done, and that only they could do it.
Cork let go. Cork was… Free.
And then came an explosion of sound.
Technically still for my lips but it’s super
I use it on my instruments. Greasing the cork connectors on my clarinet and lubricating the tuning slide on my trumpet.
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Eh?
I use it kind of like WD-40 in a farm setting. It’s messy, but not as messy as grease. It’s effective to coat things that constantly wear and have started to rust. I also rub it on my leather boots to waterproof it for cheap.
I’ve seen it used on Cinema Camera filters to make funky reflections in the lens.
We were filming a dream sequence and to make the edges of the image soft and blurry, we used an optical flat (a clear filters basically a piece of clear glass that slides in front of the camera’s lens) and the DP (director of Photography, aka the Cinematographer) smeared some Vaseline over the edges of the flat, painting the blurry edges with his finger. It worked really nicely, unfortunately I can’t find the final video online to show the result.
Saving this for future filming thank you!
Back in the olden days of television, a very thin film of Vaseline on the lens softened the wrinkles of anyone on air.
How old are we talking about? 1990’s or 1950’s?
The olden days of the 1950s and even 1960s.
I’ve seen hairspray used on a clear filter to create a similar bloom effect!
Yeah, I use it to wipe on my nose when I’m sick or my allergies are bad. It helps prevent it from getting all dried out from the tissues! I also rib a little on my hands sometime#, it goes a long way as a moisturizer. In summer I rub some between my toes if they get dried out.
I use it on the threads of plastic filter housings in my engine room. It’s keeps the salt water from seizing them.
It’s good to put around your eyebrows when you’re tinting them, so you don’t stain the skin or any invisible hair.
Also good for putting on nail polish, for similar reasons.
I use it after cleaning the impeller on my aquarium filters. They naturally collect goop around the magnet bit of the impeller which makes them quiet, but eventually there will be too much goop and they stop spinning or make a horrible racket. If you clean it off all the way it will buzz and rattle for a while. A big blob of vaseline will quiet it down until the goop builds back up.
Any chance the goop builds up faster because it is sticking to the Vaseline?
I haven’t noticed that yet. A lot of the goop is from decayed duckweed and poo debris getting jammed near the impeller. Might take 3-6 months for the impeller to get stopped by the goop. Vaseline isn’t a very good long term lubricant for aquarium impellers because you’ll open it up a week or two after being applied and sometimes it will be gone (probably sucked out and globbed somewhere else inside the filter). Really good temporary solution though.
exzema and “slugging”, ie cover feet in foot cream (or any other body part/cream type), cover that in vaseline and wear socks for a couple hours or overnight.
Why on earth would you do that?
Covering in Vaseline is a way to effectively seal the lotion in.
Eczema
Ohh, that makes sense. Just seems like it’d feel mad gross to put socks on over Vaselined feet?
cracked skin on my soles
When i see to much i put it in my eyes
Creating silicone dice molds for resin casting. The vaseline acts as a mold release
IiRC that’s what it was originally invented for.
Not dice specifically but casting release.
