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Been reading Labels... in Health and Medical Issues; So since my last news interview I have been reading labels to find out what household things I can find ...
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    Default Been reading Labels...

    So since my last news interview I have been reading labels to find out what household things I can find Propylene Glycol in.

    Here is a few let me know what you guys find around the house.

    MY babies teething gel -- we rub it on her gums for teething :P

    MY Hair Gel

    My Deodorant

    Will keep reading labels seems almost anything in a gel format can have it in it lol.

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    Propylene glycol is used:

    As a moisturizer in medicines, cosmetics, food, toothpaste, mouth wash, and tobacco products
    In electronic cigarettes to deliver vaporized nicotine
    As an emulsification agent in Angostura and orange bitters
    As a solvent for food colors and flavorings
    As an ingredient, along with wax and gelatin, in the production of paintballs
    As a humectant food additive, labeled as E number E1520
    As a cooling agent for beer and wine glycol jacketed fermentation tanks
    As a carrier in fragrance oils
    As a less-toxic antifreeze
    As a solvent used in mixing photographic chemicals, such as film developers
    In smoke machines to make artificial smoke for use in firefighters' training and theatrical productions
    In hand sanitizers, antibacterial lotions, and saline solutions
    In cryonics
    As a working fluid in hydraulic presses
    As a coolant in liquid cooling systems
    To regulate humidity in a cigar humidor
    As the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used to capture ground beetles
    To treat livestock ketosis
    As the main ingredient in deodorant sticks.
    To de-ice aircraft.[5]
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    Propylene glycol has properties similar to those of ethylene glycol (monoethylene glycol, or MEG). (Note: propylene glycol may also use the acronym MEG, but as an abbreviation of methyl ethyl glycol.) The industrial norm is to replace ethylene glycol by propylene glycol

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    It's also the main ingredient in RV antifreeze - the stuff you put in your drinking water tank in RV in the winter. MSDS for Prestone brand MSDS PRESTONE RV ANTIFREEZE

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    Oh, it's also used in some soda pops (some of the ones with real sugar in them)

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