Rublev Colours Glycerin

Glycerin is chiefly used as a moistening and plasticizing agent, particularly for aqueous mediums such as egg white, gelatin, and gum. Add it to glues and starches to make them more flexible and prevent cracking. Makes watercolor wetter and lasts longer on the palette.

Glycerin (also spelled glycerine and also called glycerol) is a colorless, transparent, and odorless sweet syrupy liquid. Glycerin is a hygroscopic, trihydroxy alcohol (HOCH₂CHOHCH₂OH) that occurs combined as glycerides and is formed by the alcoholic fermentation of sugars, that is usually obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of soap or fatty acids by the saponification of fats or as a synthetic product from propylene or allyl alcohol, and that is used chiefly as a solvent and plasticizer, as a moistening agent, emollient, and lubricant, as an emulsifying agent, and as a starting material in the manufacture of many derivatives.