E1520 Propylene glycol
Description: humectants, wetting agent, dispersing agent, petroleum based. Its glycerine like taste has made it popular for children’s medications and other elixirs.
Used in many topical creams and ointments, cosmetics, hair products and deodorants.
Has been linked with fatal heart attacks (when given intravenously), central nervous system depression and cosmetic or pharmaceutical contact dermatitis.
Propylene glycol, known also by the systematic name propane-1,2-diol, is an organic compound (a diol alcohol), usually a tasteless, odorless, and colorless clear oily liquid that is hygroscopic and miscible with water, acetone, and chloroform.
Molecular formula – C3H8O2
