Vegetable Glycerine

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wildthinng@... wrote:

> Where can I purchase vegetable glycerin?

I usually buy mine at http://www.jeansgreens.com. Nice lady--good

prices.

May

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www.craftexpress.com has it for $12.50 a gallon

marilyn in Texas

Where can I purchase vegetable glycerin?

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I purchase my vegetable glycerine from Herbal Accents in California.

http://www.herbalaccents.com

You can shop via the site or request a catalog. I have found that they are the

most reasonable in price.

I get most of my products from them.

Debbie

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After checking out all the places where people buy their supplies, I

have to say that Liberty Natural Products is cheaper on many of the

items. The are located in Portland, OR Their on line catalog is at:

http://www.libertynatural.com/ I've been doing business with them for

about 5 years and find them to be very helpful.

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Bumpas wrote:

> What technically is vegetable glycerin? It sounds more like a chemical than a

food.

>

Well it does rather :-)) and it doesn't help that you usually buy it in

the hand cream section of the HF store!!!

It's a plant extract from plant fats treated with the alkai of a fatty

acid to form this glycerine that has a sweet taste. It's been in use

since 1779.

The name comes from the Greek word glykys meaning sweet. It is a

colorless, odorless, viscous, nontoxic liquid with a very sweet taste

and has many uses, the sweetness being just one of them. It's not

technically a sugar but a " trihydric alcohol " . Alcohol here is a

category of molecular structure not the ethyl alcohol that is in wine

and spirits nor the isoprpyl alcohol in rubbing alcohol. It's a separate

type of molecule.

Apart from using it as a sweetener you find it in facial scrubs, hand

cream, foot creme, contact lens cleaner, moisturizers, etc.

Reason:

A lot of things can dissolve in glycerine that do not dissolve in other

solvents like water or alcohol and so it is also used as a solvent. More

common solvents are water and alcohol. A lot of natural remedies are

made in a glycerine base for its solvent capabilities, including all

gemmotherapy ones developed by the French from the growing tips of

plants. (The components needewdfor the remedy dissolve better in

glycerine than in water or alcohol.

Glycerine does not dry out on exposure to air so that also makes it a

good lubricant. It's in a lot of lubricating products whether industrial

or skin moisturizer or enemas :-)

It has the unusual ability to blend equally well with water or oil

so that makes it ideal for many products that want oily and watery

ingredients together - hence skin creams and such.

It does not " go off " so is used as a preservative in many

applications including leather tanning.

As for ingestion - due to the enema effect, you do not want to

consume it by the gallon. A very large amount will act as an emetic but

is not advised as one. You would not consider it nutritious as such -

just a nontoxic way to make something staste sweet. Many medicines are

made in glycerine for that reason, and topical ones use glycerine

because it helps absorption through the skin.

As a sweetener I find a half teaspoon sweetens a cup of frozen berries

well enough for me - I used to use a teaspoon but found that too sweet.

Vegetable glycerine is derived from fats of plants. It involves

" saponification " of fats - the name of the chemical extraction process.

Regular glycerine is made from animal fats. It can also be made by

fermentation of alcohol. And the manufacture of soap has glycerine as a

by-product - regular glycerine, not vegetable glycerine.

Oh I forgot - it can also be used to make a fuel called " bio-diesel " :-))

So you may now know a lot more than you wanted to know about glycerine

and vegetable glycerine :-))

Because it is such a fantastic solvent it has as many uses as that other

fantastic solvent - water.

Namaste,

Irene

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