Applications:

Food industry:

(1) Serves as a humectant, solvent, and sweetener, and may help preserve foods.

(2) It is also used as filler in commercially prepared low-fat foods

(3) As a thickening agent in liqueurs.

(4) Glycerol is also used to manufacture mono- and di-glycerides for use as emulsifiers

Pharmaceutical and personal care applications:

(1) Cough syrups,

(2) Toothpaste,

(3) Mouthwashes,

(4) Skin care products,

(5) Shaving cream,

(6) Hair care products,

(7) Soaps