Why we love it?
"It is a humectant, which means it has the property of attracting water to itself."
Yeah, that's right. It's a moisturizer that actually attracts more moisture. "Glycerin is essentially like a sponge that pulls in water to the outer skin layer," Zeichner explains.
"It can attract water from the deeper skin layers or even the air in humid environments." It also helps slow the evaporation of water from your skin to help foil that chronic winter dryness, adds Erin Gilbert, a board-certified dermatologist in New York City. In short, it's a skin secret weapon.
When you're fighting dry, winter skin, you want the best moisturizers around; we're talking the juiciest ingredients you can get your parched, cracked hands on. That's why you'll want to look for glycerin in all your skin-care products.
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Why is it used in cosmetics and personal care products?
Glycerin is used safely in numerous cosmetics and personal care products such as soaps, toothpaste, shaving cream, and skin/hair care products to provide smoothness and lubrication. It is also a well-known humectant that prevents the loss of moisture from products so they don’t dry out as quickly.
Other reported functions for glycerin include use as a fragrance ingredient, denaturant, hair conditioning agent, oral care agent, skin conditioning agent— humectant, skin protectant, oral health care drug, and viscosity decreasing agent.
We are also seeing Glycerin in most of the popular hand sanitizer formulations
More info from our sources
•https://cosmetics.specialchem.com/inci/glycerin
•https://www.allure.com/story/what-is-glycerin-skin-care-ingredient
•https://cosmeticsinfo.org/ingredient/glycerin-0
•https://www.agardenforthehouse.com/2020/03/hand-sanitizer-who-formula/
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