Glycerol is a trihydroxy sugar alcohol that is an intermediate in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. It is used as a solvent, emollient, pharmaceutical agent, or sweetening agent.
Everyday, we are exposed to various factors which stimulate aging. The air that we breathe, the food that we eat, the water that we drink, our fast-paced, late-meal, late-sleep lifestyle speed up the appearance of skin wrinkles and sagging.
Our body is like a huge community, where good bacteria and biochemicals reside inside their cell-homes. Everyday, physiologic processes occur, comparable to the daily traffic and the hustle and bustle of work that we are engaging in constantly.
In order to confirm the pharmacological validation of the uses reports, the European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP), German Commission E, World Health Organization (WHO), European Medicines Agency (EMA), European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) and the Farmacopea Española (RFE) monographs have been revised.