Petroleum Products: Cold Cream

Cold cream. Not sure if anyone actually uses it, and it seems like something to be found in Oma’s medicine cabinet, but there it is, yet another petroleum product.

Cold cream—named as such due to the cool feeling it has on the skin when applied—has been around in some form since its invention in the second century in Greece.

Original recipes included beeswax and olive oil, although modern recipes use jojoba and mineral oils. Mineral oil is also known as liquid petroleum and is a by-product of the distillation of petroleum to gasoline.

Here’s a short commercial from the ‘50s for a cold cream proven to remove the most radioactive dirt from your skin to keep it clean and youthful. [[{"fid":"1001","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default"},"type":"media","attributes":{}}]]