DEFINITION

Lauroyl Polyoxylglycerides is a mixture of monoesters, diesters, and triesters of glycerol and monoesters and diesters of polyethylene glycols. The polyethylene glycols used have a mean molecular weight between 300 and 1500. The article is produced by partial alcoholysis of saturated oils, mainly containing triglycerides of lauric acid with polyethylene glycols, by esterification of glycerol and polyethylene glycols with fatty acids, or as a mixture of glycerol esters and ethylene oxide condensate with the fatty acids of the hydrogenated oils. It may contain free polyethylene glycols.