Uses

Polyols are used in an increasingly wide variety of commercial food applications in the market today. They exhibit a number of functional and organoleptic characteristics that make them ideal for use in most food applications.

Since decades polyols play an important role as active ingredients and also as excipients in pharmaceutical formulations. First medical indication of polyols as active ingredients was the treatment of constipation.

Polyols are commonly used for personal care industry, both the cosmetics and toiletries sectors. Polyols are more and more incorporated as excipients in the manufacture of the essential ranges of personal care products like toothpaste, mouthwashes, chewing gums, candies, creams and lotions, make-up, perfumes or deodorants.