Glycerin USP Grade / Food Grade. INCI: Glycerin
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Glycerin is generally obtained from plant and animal sources where it occurs as triglycerides. Triglycerides are esters of glycerol with long-chain carboxylic acids. The hydrolysis, saponification, or transesterification of these triglycerides produces glycerin as well as the fatty acid derivatives. Physically, glycerin is a water-soluble, clear, almost colorless, odorless, viscous, hygroscopic liquid with a high boiling point. It is highly stable under ordinary conditions of storage and use, remaining free from objectionable color, odor or taste with the passage of time. Glycerin is a material of outstanding utility with many areas of applications. Glycerin functions as plasticizer, humectant, solvent, bodying agent. lubricant, etc. The key to glycerin’s technical versatility is a unique combination of physical and chemical properties, ready compatibility with many other substances, and easy handling. Glycerin is also virtually nontoxic to human health and to the environment.
Applications
Glycerin has numerous applications in many industries. The list below only enumerates applications where the food and pharmaceutical grades are employed.
1. Food and Beverages In foods and beverages, glycerine functions as a humectant, solvent, sweetener, and preservative. It acts as a solvent for flavors and food colors in soft drirlks and confections and as a humectant and softening agent in candy, cakes, and casings for meats and cheese. Glycerine is also used in dry pet foods to help retain moisture and enhance palatability. It maintains moisture balance in a product and permit richer formulations with longer shelf life when added to margarine to increase plasticity and to dough mixes to promote dispersion of fat; also used in salad dressings, frozen desserts, candy, and food coatings.
2. Drugs Glycerine is one of the most widely used ingredients in drugs and pharmaceuticals. It functions as a solvent, moistener, humectant, and bodying agent in tinctures, elixirs, ointments, and Capsules for medicinal use are plasticized with glycerine. Other well-known uses include suppositories, ear infection remedies, anesthetics, cough remedies, lozenges, gargles, and vehicles for antibiotics and antiseptics. Medically, glycerine serves as an emollient and demulcent in preparations used on the skin and as an osmotic diuretic to manage cerebral edema, reduce cerebrospinal pressure, and lower intraocular pressure. A derivative, nitro- glycerine, is a coronary vasodilator used to treat angina. In veterinary medicine, glycerine has been used as a source of glucose in bovine ketosis and nitroglycerine as a treatment for bronchial asthma in dogs.
3. Cosmetics and Toiletries Glycerine is widely used in cosmetics and other toiletry applications, being virtually nontoxic, non-irritating, and odorless. It functions as a humectant, vehicle. and emollient. Glycerine is a major toothpaste ingredient, preventing drying out and hardening in the tube and around the cap threads or at the opening of the pump- type dispenser. Other uses include skin creams and lotions, shaving preparations. deodorants, and make up. Glycerol esters of fatty acids, an important class of glycerine derivatives, are utilized as emulsifiers in creams and lotions and as replacements for waxes in lipstick, in mascara, and in other non-greasy emulsions.
4. Tobacco A glycerine content of about 3% keeps tobacco moist and soft to prevent breaking and crumbling during processing and to ensure freshness in packaged cigarettes and other tobacco products. Sheet-formed cigar tobacco is plasticized with glycerine. It also adds flavor to chewing and pipe tobaccos. niacetin (glycerol triacetate) acts as a plasticizer for cellulose acetate in the manufacture of cigarette filter-tips.
Safety 1. Human Exposure Glycerine is essentially nontoxic by ingestion and harmless to the skin. In the event of eye contact. the eye should immediately be rinsed gently with tepid (body temperature) water. 2. Fire and Explosion Fire hazard is low even when exposed to heat or flame, but glycerine is still combustible. Glycerine can react violently in contact with certain strong oxidizing agents such as acetic anhydride. (aniline + nitrobenzene), calcium hypochlorite, chromium peroxide, chromium trioxide, potassium agents chlorate. potassium permanganate. potassium peroxide, silver perchlorate, and sodium hydride. 3. Environmental Glycerine has no harmful impact on the environment even for a massive release or spill. In water, it does not appear to have any effect other than an oxygen demand arising from biodegradation and Aquatic toxicity insignificant.
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