Description
- PEG is the basis of many skin creams (as cetomacrogol) and personal lubricants.
- PEG is used as an anti-foaming agent in food and drinks – its INS number is 1521 or E1521 in the EU.
- PEG was used as an additive to silver halide photographic emulsions.
- PEG is used as a binder in the preparation of technical ceramics.
- Pharmaceutical-grade PEG is used as an excipient in many pharmaceutical products, in oral, topical, and parenteral dosage forms.