Propylene Glycol Properties

Description

Propylene Glycol is an organic compound. Large amount of it is used in the plastics industry for the manufacture of polyester fibers and alkyd resins. It is used as a main ingredient in automobile antifreeze and engine-cooling liquids and in brake and hydraulic fluids due to its useful properties of low freezing point, involatility and low corrosive activity. It is used in the preparation of body-care surfactants and also as a humectant in foods and cosmetics. It is used as a solvent for colouring or flavouring agents as well as in many oral, injectable or topical pharmaceuticals. Its antibacterial property is applied in the preparation of sanitizing lotions.