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Petroleum is a hydrocarbon, and apolar. Probably made off very large molecules of this type.
By putting it in a mixture which contains similar looking molecules, which would be able to bond via Van der Waals weak forces. Since it's apolar and doesn't have ends which can bond via hydrogen bonds, vaseline is definitely more hydrophobic than hydrophilic, so it doesn't wash off with water.
If you find a molecule that has both a hydrophobic (to bond with the vaseline molecules) and hydrophilic, it's the ideal type to dissolve vaseline and wash it off.
If the idea is not to wash it off but make a solution, then a big apolar molecule which can make plenty of Van der Waals connections with the vaseline molecule (the more the better) can work.
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