Yellow Petrolatum products are used as base material in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, healthcare, baby care and personal care products, besides food processing and other industries. Yellow petroleum jelly is specifically favoured by personal care and pharmaceutical companies as a very diverse, safe, as well as economical formulation base.
Some of the many uses of yellow petroleum jelly include:
Yellow petroleum jelly may be used as an ointment base, a protective dressing, and for further healing applications to skin.
Yellow petroleum jelly traps moisture to skin and prevents our skin from losing moisture.
Yellow petrolatum is used in developing various cosmetic and personal care products like hair conditioners, hand cleaners, lip balms, massage creams, moisturising lotions, and sunscreens.
Yellow petroleum jelly finds pharmaceutical applications in things like skin protecting ointments, medicated ointments, and more.
White Petroleum Jelly (WPJ) is a nearly odourless, tasteless, homogenous mixture of a high degree of purity of hydrogenated hydrocarbons.
The many white petroleum jelly uses include:
White petroleum jelly for lips is one of the most common uses we hear of for WPJ; it protects our lips against dryness and chapping.
It is in general used as moisturiser to treat/prevent dry, rough, scaly, or itchy skin. White petroleum jelly creates a sealing barrier between cells in dry skin so that it locks in moisture, and can speed up the natural recovery of our skin.
The product is also used to treat minor skin irritations like rashes, cuts, or burns, like those from radiation therapy.
It is used to treat dry hands; WPJ is used after washing hands, and usually applied throughout the day.
White petroleum jelly is also used to treat diaper rashes.
WPJ can help reduce the appearance of fine, dry lines.
Paraffin waxes in a solid state are usually white, translucent, tasteless and odorless. They are hard, relatively brittle and have a slightly dry feel. In a molten state, paraffin waxes are clear, colorless liquids of low viscosity. When melted, these waxes increase in volume by about 5-8%, resulting in a decrease in density.
Paraffin will react at high temperatures with either oxidizing or halogenating agents. This reaction produces either fatty acids and hydroxy acids or halogen substitution products respectively. Although paraffin has many useful characteristics, most commercial applications are based on its resistance to water and vapor and its glossy appearance when polished.
