There are two main non-inhibited Propylene Glycols:
1) Technical Grade Propylene Glycol - Concentration > 99.5%
2) Food Grade Propylene Glycol USP Kosher - Concentration > 99.5%
Review your application before purchasing. Propylene Glycol is typically used:
* As a moisturizer in medicines, cosmetics, food, toothpaste, mouth wash, and tobacco products
* In electronic cigarettes to deliver vaporized nicotine
* As an emulsification agent in Angostura and orange bitters
* As a solvent for food colors and flavorings
* As an ingredient, along with wax and gelatin, in the production of paintballs
* As a humectant food additive, labeled as E number E1520
* As a cooling agent for beer and wine glycol jacketed fermentation tanks
* As a carrier in fragrance oils
* As a less-toxic antifreeze
* As a solvent used in mixing photographic chemicals, such as film developers
* In smoke machines to make artificial smoke for use in firefighters' training & theatrical prod.
* In hand sanitizers, antibacterial lotions, and saline solutions
* In cryonics
* As a working fluid in hydraulic presses
* As a coolant in liquid cooling systems
* To regulate humidity in a cigar humidor
* As the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used to capture ground beetles
* To treat livestock ketosis
* As the main ingredient in deodorant sticks
* To de-ice aircraft
* UV Blacklite Tattoo Ink
Propylene glycol has properties similar to those of ethylene glycol (monoethylene glycol, or MEG). (Note: propylene glycol may also use the acronym MEG, but as an abbreviation of methyl ethyl glycol.) The industrial norm is to replace ethylene glycol by propylene glycol.
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