Vegetable glycerin (M - 1225), 100 ml, Mayam

1. It is a moisturizing agent found in countless cosmetic products for skin and hair care and hygiene. Facilitates the retention of water in the skin tissue, is emollient and velvety, protects the hair from dehydration.
2. Glycerin can be included in all types of skin and hair care products, in creams, lotions, toners, soaps, toothpaste, shampoos and shower gels. It is easy to work with this ingredient, not being sensitive to heating. Glycerin is not foreign to the human body and thus does not cause irritation or allergies.
3. Glycerin is a good vegetable solvent for various substances, being used in gemotherapy, phytotherapy and homeopathy to extract the active principles. You can also prepare herbal macerations at home with glycerin.
4. Humectants, like glycerin, are hygroscopic ingredients that attract water from the atmosphere to the skin. In particular, glycerin is a substance for the skin, this means that after washing it does not leave the surface of the skin, thus being very useful in hygiene products.

Other names:
Glycerol.

Characteristics:

• Clear, colorless liquid, high viscosity.
• Density 1.2.
• Solubility - it is miscible in water and alcohol; a small amount can also be incorporated in solid anhydrous preparations.

Ingredients (INCI):
Glycerin.

Properties:

- humectant, hygroscopic, attracts and retains water in the skin;
- intensely moisturizing, helps to maintain water in the skin;
- good solvent of vegetable substances;
- skin softener and elasticizer;
- helps to disperse the gelling agents in certain cosmetic formulas;
- slightly increases the foaming power of preparations based on surfactants;
- it may feel a little sticky on the skin, depending on the dosage.

Recommendations for use:

- for the care and hygiene of any type of skin and hair;
- care of dry, dehydrated, cracked, flaky skin;
- preparation of plant macerates, hydroglycerine extracts.

Mode of use in cosmetics:

- it is a product that is not used as such on the skin, only as an ingredient in cosmetic preparations;
- included in creams, lotions, toners, body milk, gels and emulsified products, generally dosed at 1-5%;
- glycerin not being sensitive to heating, it will be considered as an ingredient in the aqueous phase of emulsions;
- as an ingredient in preparations that are applied locally on areas with rough, cracked or rough skin, dosed up to 8%;
- in shower gels, cleansers, shampoos, dosage 1-10%;
- in hydroglycerine macerates 50-70%;
- overdose (over 10%) in cosmetic products that do not rinse off the skin, causes an opposite effect, namely drying of the skin, attracting water from the deeper layers of the skin to the surface;
- in lip balm, ointments, body butter or other solid anhydrous compositions, it is usually added during the solidification process, dosage 1-3%; glycerin is not soluble in oils but disperses well in oily preparations with high viscosity.

Presentation:
100 ml