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In general, hexitols and their derivatives particularly sorbitol, are used in diverse industries, viz. Pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, toothpaste, cigarettes, foods, textiles, adhesives, confectionery, printing ink, etc.One of the major uses of sorbitol is as a humectant and conditioning agent. Many products under day-to-day atmospheric changes require the addition of a humectant to assist them to retain their freshness, softness and flexibility and to maintain ideal manufacturing conditions.

Food and Confectionery: Sorbitol imparts to frozen desserts, body and texture, as well as some sweetness. In artificially sweetened canned fruits, the undesirable aftertaste of saccharine is avoided by use of Sorbitol. In low – caloric softdrinks, Sorbitol finds use as a Bodying agent, in addition to its use as a sequestering agent in canned softdrinks. With the advantage of more shelf life Sorbitol is mostly used in candy manufacture together with sugar to increase shelf life. The function of sorbitol is to retard the solidification of sugar often associated with staleness in candy. It also helps to improve softness, taste, and texture. Sorbitol may be used in diabetic chocolates.

Diabetic diets : Extensive research as led to the adoption of sorbitol to substitute sugar as a sweetening agent in diabetic diets. Sorbitol is used in frozen desserts for diabetics. In the manufacture of sugarless chewing gum, Sorbitol provides water-soluble solids.

Tooth Paste : Sorbitol effectively replaces glycerin and sugar in toothpaste importing the required degree of plasticity and sweetness, humectant and plasticising properties of sorbitol.
 

Tobacco: Sorbitol is non-volatile and hence there is no danger losing the conditioner during and other pressing operations. Sorbitol is compatible with various ingredients used in tobacco mixture. Because of its sweetness and cooling taste, Sorbitol contributes to the flavor of chewing tobacco besides conditioning the product.

Textiles: Sorbitol functions in textile applications basically as a dispensing agent, humactant bodying agent and sequestering agent. In printing, a pastes of 2% to 3% Sorbitol solution 70% (on the weight of the gum in the dye paste) prevents levering of the paste, improves brightness and intensity of color, assists penetration, prevents bleeding and promotes leveling.

Pharmaceuticals : The use of sorbitol cough syrups reduces the tendency of the bottle caps to stick due to the crystallization of the sugar present. Sorbitol is a good humectant and plasticiser and these properties make it useful in emulsion ointments, Non fat-soluble ointments and gelatin capsules. Ointments, creams and pastes will show satisfactory spreading capacity with sorbitol as adjuvant. Aqueous sorbitol solutions are not subjected to fermentative decomposition.

Skincream and Cream Foundation : Sorbitol replaces glycerin as humectant and conditioning agent and helps to reduce the greasiness as well as the particle size of the dispersion. Sorbitol is widely used in cosmetics, both as a humactant to retard loss of water from oil in water (O/W) type of creams and as on emollient. Sorbitol solution 70% has proved a useful additive for improving the aesthetic appeal of glycerin carbolic soap by imparting better transparency. Generally speaking, Sorbitol solution 70% can replace other humectants, by weight where the humectant percentage is less than 10%.

Adhesives : Sorbitol is the ideal answer since it neither loses nor absorbs any appreciable quantity of water, unlike conventional humectants like glycerin or ethylene glycol. Sorbitol increases the viscosity of the glue composition so that more water is needed, resulting in greater economy. Sorbitol functions as a moisture conditioning agent and its non volatility ensures non cracking labels and envelops with minimum of curling.

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