Word: petrolatum
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Last week Health News, official bulletin of the New York State Department of Health, noted that "sand soaps" used by factory workers were often more damaging to the skin than industrial irritants, offered the following cleansing formula: "Equal parts of sulfonated neat's foot oil and liquid petrolatum containing 25% gelatin ... are added to white granulated corn meal in the proportion of one-and-a-half parts, by weight, of corn meal and one part, by weight, of the oil mixture. To prevent growth of mold or bacteria a 0.5 solution of chlorobutanol is added...
...subsidiary, was considered a retaliatory move, and all U. S. movements toward restriction of oil production were hampered by the necessity of taking into consideration Sir Henri's competition for world-markets. Thus Royal Dutch was commonly regarded as a fly in U. S. petrolatum...
...with petrolatum...