Vaseline Body Lotion

Vaseline body lotion on skinsli covers the brand's main moisturising formulas in bottles from a 120ml travel size up to 1078ml pumps. The range splits into a few clear jobs: Essential Healing and Advanced Repair for skin that has gone tight and flaky, Sensitive Relief for reactive skin, Cocoa Radiant for a warmer scent and visible softness, and plain Daily Moisture or 24h Daily Moisture for everyday use after a shower. All of them are petrolatum based, so they sit on the occlusive end of body care rather than the light-gel end. Pick by how dry your skin actually gets, then pick the size by how often you reach for it.

  • Petrolatum based
  • 120ml to 1078ml sizes
  • Sensitive skin option
  • Body care

By Skinsli editorial Updated

Buying guide

How to choose a Vaseline body lotion

Vaseline runs several body lotion formulas in parallel, and the names do not always make the difference obvious. This guide sorts the ones stocked here by what they are for, so you can match a bottle to your skin rather than to the label copy.

Essential Healing for very dry skin

Essential Healing is the workhorse of the range. It is a thicker, fragrance-forward lotion aimed at skin that feels rough on shins, elbows and forearms. The 600ml bottle is the common size here, which suits daily whole-body use rather than spot treatment.

Intensive Care Advanced Repair

Advanced Repair sits in the same intensive tier but leans lower on fragrance and higher on barrier support. If Essential Healing works but the scent bothers you, this is the closest swap. It is stocked in 600ml.

Sensitive Relief for reactive skin

Intensive Care Sensitive Relief is the option to start with if your skin flares easily or you are layering over freshly shaved legs. It comes in a 400ml two pack here, so it is worth buying only once you know the formula suits you.

Cocoa Radiant when you want scent

Cocoa Radiant is the scented member of the Intensive Care group, built around cocoa butter. It is stocked in both 200ml and 600ml, which makes it easy to keep a small one in a bag and a large one at home. Skip it if you are sensitive to fragrance.

Daily Moisture and 24h Daily Moisture

These are the lighter everyday bottles, sold in 1000ml and 1078ml pump sizes. They absorb faster than the Intensive Care formulas and are the sensible pick for warm weather, for arms and hands during the day, or for anyone who finds the healing formulas too heavy.

Dry Skin Repair in a 120ml bottle

The 120ml Dry Skin Repair bottle is the only genuinely portable size in the range. It is useful as a desk or handbag bottle, or as a way to test whether a repair-tier Vaseline formula agrees with your skin before you commit to a litre.

Reading the sizes and bundles

Most formulas repeat across two or three sizes, and a few listings are multi packs, such as the All Day and Deep Plus 1000ml pair or the Sensitive Relief two pack. Those are the same lotions in different quantities, not separate formulas, so compare price per millilitre before assuming a bundle is the better deal.

When to apply it

Petrolatum based lotions work best on skin that is still slightly damp, so apply within a few minutes of towelling off. On very dry patches, a second thin layer at night does more than one heavy layer in the morning. Give it a minute before dressing, since the intensive formulas take longer to sink in than the daily ones.

Where it fits beside Korean body care

Most of the body care on skinsli is Korean and leans light, watery and lightly scented. Vaseline is the opposite end of that shelf: heavier, occlusive, built to hold moisture in rather than to feel weightless. Many people use both, a light lotion in summer and one of these in winter.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

  • Both are the intensive tier of the range and both come in 600ml here. Essential Healing is the more strongly scented of the two and is the general purpose choice for rough, flaky skin. Advanced Repair is the quieter version, aimed at skin that needs the same richness with less fragrance.

  • Intensive Care Sensitive Relief. It is stocked as a 400ml two pack, so if you have not used it before it is worth patch testing on a small area first, since you are buying two bottles at once.

  • They are the same lighter, everyday part of the range and both are stocked in litre sized bottles, 1000ml and 1078ml. The 24h version is marketed on how long it holds moisture. Neither is as rich as the Intensive Care formulas, so if your skin still feels tight by evening, move up a tier rather than switching between these two.

  • The 120ml Dry Skin Repair bottle. Everything else starts at 200ml, with most formulas sitting at 400ml, 600ml or a litre. The 120ml is the practical one to carry or to try a formula with.

  • It is built around cocoa butter and is the most obviously scented option in this grid, warm rather than sweet. It is stocked in 200ml and 600ml. If fragrance is a problem for you, Advanced Repair or Sensitive Relief are the low scent alternatives.

  • Vaseline sells set listings such as the All Day and Deep Plus 1000ml pair. These are two full sized bottles shipped together, not a different formula. Compare the set price against two single bottles before choosing.

  • After, on skin that is still slightly damp. Petrolatum based lotions like these work by holding water in, so applying to bone dry skin gets you less out of the bottle. The lighter Daily Moisture bottles sink in fast enough for a morning routine; the Intensive Care ones are easier to use at night.