| Health Care |
- Excipient use only
- Used medical and pharmaceutical preparations, mainly as a means of improving smoothness, providing lubrication and humectants
- Suppositories, cough syrups, elixirs and expectorants
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| Personal Care |
- Excipient use only
- Serves as humectants, solvent and lubricant in personal care products
- Competes with sorbitol, although glycerin has better taste and higher solubility
- Toothpaste, mouthwashes, skin care products
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| Foods and Beverages |
- Serves as humectants, solvent, and sweetener. May help to preserve foods.
- Solvent for flavors and food coloring
- Humectant and softening agent in candy, cakes and casings for meats and cheeses
- Manufacture of mono- and di-glycerides for use as emulsifiers
- Used in manufacture of polyglycerol esters going into shortenings and margarine
- Used as filler in low-fat food products (e.g., cookies)
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| Polyether Polyols |
- One of the major raw materials for the manufacture of polyols for flexible foams, and to a lesser extent, rigid polyurethane foams
- Glycerin is the initiator to which propylene oxide/ethylene oxide is added
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| Alkyd Resins Cellophane |
- Used in surface coatings and paints
- Used as softener and plasticizer to impart flexibility, pliability and toughness
- Uses include meat casings, collagen casings, (medical applications) and non-meat packaging
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| Explosives |
- Used in the production of nitro glycerin
- Glycerol triacetate is a component in binders for the production of solid rocket fuels
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| Other |
- Epichlorohydrin Production
- Mono Propylene Glycol Production
- Manufacturing of paper as a plasticizer, humectant and lubricant
- Humectant for pet foods to retain moisture and enhance palatability
- Used in lubricating, sizing, and softening of yarn and fabric
- Used in de-/anti-icing fluids
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