Product
Glycerine
Glycerine (glycerol) is a humectant and solvent for skin care, oral care, pharmaceuticals and food, supplied as 99.7% USP grade and technical grade.
- Grades / forms
- 99.7% USP / technical · Food grade
- Documents
- TDS · SDS to view and download
Overview
Glycerine is a clear, sweet, viscous liquid made as a by-product of soap and biodiesel production from vegetable oils, then refined by distillation. It attracts and holds water, which makes it one of the most effective and widely used moisturising ingredients in creams, lotions, soaps and toothpaste.
USP grade (99.7%) is refined for personal care, pharmaceuticals and food, and is tested specifically for diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol (EG) — a critical safety check for any glycerine going into medicines. Technical grade serves alkyd resins, polyols, antifreeze, tobacco and other industrial uses.
Applications
- 1Moisturisers, creams and lotions
- 2Toothpaste and mouthwash
- 3Cough syrups and pharmaceutical liquids
- 4Food and beverages (E422)
- 5Transparent and glycerine soaps
- 6Alkyd resins, polyols and antifreeze (technical grade)
Specification
- Appearance
- Transparent
- Glycerine Content (%)
- 99.00 min
- Moisture (%)
- 0.3 max
- Color (APHA)
- 10 max
- Color (mL FeCl₃)
- 0.4 max
- Identification A (IR)
- Conform
- Identification B – Diethylene Glycol
- 0.1 max
- Identification B – Ethylene Glycol
- 0.1 max
- Identification C (GC)
- Conform
- Specific Gravity (@25°C)
- 1.2612 min
- Residue on Ignition (%)
- 0.01 max
- Chlorides (ppm)
- 10 max
- Sulphates (ppm)
- 20 max
- Heavy Metals (ppm)
- 5 max
- Chlorinated Compounds (ppm)
- 30 max
- Fatty Acids & Esters (mL of 0.5N NaOH/50 g)
- 1 max
- Individual Impurity (%)
- 0.1 max
- Total Impurities (%)
- 1.0 max
Specification as stated on our Technical Data Sheet, which you can download below.
Documents
PDF documents from our quality records.
Packing & storage
Packing
- 250 kg HDPE drums
- 1250 kg IBCs
- Flexitanks
Storage & handling
Keep containers closed — glycerine absorbs moisture from air. It becomes very viscous in cold weather; gentle warming restores flow.
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Request a quotation or call +91 97979 77958- Certificate of Analysis with every batch
- SDS in destination format
- Made to your specification
- Private label packing
Questions
Glycerine, answered.
USP glycerine is refined to 99.7% or higher and tested to the United States Pharmacopeia for personal care, pharmaceutical and food use, including limits on diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol. Technical glycerine has lower purity and is used in resins, antifreeze and other industrial applications.
Diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol (EG) are toxic and have caused fatal poisonings when glycerine was contaminated or substituted. The USP requires every batch of pharmaceutical glycerine to be tested and to contain no more than 0.10% of each.
Yes. Glycerine is supplied from vegetable oil sources. Origin, Kosher and Halal documentation can be provided where available for a specific batch.
Yes. Cosmo Chemistry manufactures and exports Glycerine from Surat, Gujarat, India to more than 55 countries, for customers in the personal care & home care and food ingredients industries. Send your grade, quantity and destination port for a quotation within one business day.
Every shipment of Glycerine from Cosmo Chemistry includes a batch-specific Certificate of Analysis (COA) and Safety Data Sheet (SDS). Certificate of Origin, third-party pre-shipment inspection and destination-specific regulatory documentation are arranged on request.
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