24/Savvy Beauty and Health

When we set out to do this 3-Uses-in-1 regular feature, little did we know that many of the products we wanted to feature pre-date World War I and in this case, the Civil War.  Guess that should teach us something about simplicity and using what you have, no?

For our savvy history buffs: Vaseline's life began in 1859, when an amateur chemist discovered that the same substance that loosened up oil rigs also worked wonders on workers' cuts and burns (so savvy!).  Vaseline Petroleum Jelly was born and within 10 years, found its way into nearly every American medicine chest from Chattanooga to the Mississippi Delta.  There are no shortages of things you can do with VPJ, but we found its myriad uses more powerful when combined with something else, Wonder-Twin Power-Style.