I know someone posted they found glycerin at Wal-mart, but when I went there yesterday the "help" gave me a glazed-eyed look. Where in Wal-mart do you find liquid glycerin and what does the packaging look like?
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I know someone posted they found glycerin at Wal-mart, but when I went there yesterday the "help" gave me a glazed-eyed look. Where in Wal-mart do you find liquid glycerin and what does the packaging look like?
I've never seen it at Wal-mart, but here in Texas we have a place called Sprouts that has small bottles of it.
When I lived in Oregon I ordered it from here:
Azure Standard - Vegetable Glycerine (food grade)
If there is a Target with a pharmacy near you, ask them if they have it behind the counter in their "NOP" secton. If not, they can special order it for you. I bought a 6 oz bottle from them for around $9. If your ask them on a Monday through Thursday, it should be in the next day. Hope this helps.
In my experience, the glycerin will be found in just about any drug store in the section also holding the mineral oil and vaseline (white or mineral petrolatum.) If they don't know where the glycerin is, I would ask for the location of vaseline, since that will be more commonly known. Start there in your searching of shelves.
the glycerin is where the band aid is.
Also try looking in your supermarket in the cake baking section. In the UK most big supermarkets have a section for cake baking/decoration, where they usually have a range of tiny bottles containing food colorings, and essences such as vanilla/rum/peppermint etc, as well as various cake decoration stuff. They almost always have tiny bottles of glycerin too, though I'm not a skilled baker so I have no idea what the cake making application for it is.
Thanks, guys. Baking isle and vaseline/mineral oil isle. I will look tomorrow.
Whole Foods has it also!
Big bottle, reasonable price if I remember correctly. One of the few "reasonably" priced things in there. But some REALLY GOOD STUFF none the less!
Up in Boston, I tried looking for Glycerin in a CVS pharmacy right by my apartment. After looking around the shaving area for a good 15 minutes, and the male help being extremely confused by the word Glycerin, i finally asked a female manager (Not sure if this counts as sexism), and she pointed me towards the facial cream area.
Glycerin is commonly used as moisturizer in a lot of different hand creams and etc, and I was able to find Anhydrous Glycerin in the face cream aisle. For me, it was a CVS name brand Glycerin, so anyway, if you're near a pharmacy, check out the feminine skin product aisle, shuffle down the line, and if worst comes to worst, ask a female manager.
Moral of the story? Females know how to take care of their skin.
-Jackson
I always get it at the drug store, but after I read the posts here I thought I would see if you could get it in larger quantities than the usual 4oz-6oz. If you ever need a 5 gallon pail (or a bulk rail car full), you're in luck...this should keep you moisturized until the year 3000...go to packaging
I always find glycerin at the drugstore in the band-aid aisle right beside the witch hazel.
It was Beside The Band Aid At Our Wal-Mart. I had looked on Wal-Mart.com to see what it looked like but once I got it the lables were different same mfg.
I bought mine from the first aide section of the pharmacy section of my local super market. If you can't find it by the Vaseline, look on the top shelf. That is where I found mine. Oddly enough the female technician didn't have a clue, but the pharmacist told her to look on the first aid isle.
I got mine at Fredmeyer groceries (part of the Kroger,OFC chain), top shelf, near the vaseline etc. Amazon also carries a variety of brands in some pretty decent amounts for the small amount of research I did on the A.com site.
Yeah my local Walmart did the same they thought I needed suppositories. I was like "Do I look constipated to you?"
I checked out my target $7.xx and your local Rite-Aid has it for $8.50 as well
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Unfortunately both those stores don't have the regular and only in Rose Petal. I've only used it once.
I need to check to see if local CVS/Longs Drugs have them.
OK, I bought the glycerin a couple of months ago and add about five drops after I have worked up a fair lather in my cup. Now, I am not entirely sure what glycerin does. :confused: Does it stabilize the lather so it doesn't dry out so quickly. This was the purpose I bought it for. Or does it increase the lather. I just can't tell for sure.
Glycerin is used in soap making (for those who like home made soap) and I know glycerin soap is used by some people who has skin issues. I just didn't know what it does for soap. The soap I use is a glycerin based soap but does make a denser lather if I add glycerin to the lather I make.
The above pic is what I've got too. And I got it at walmart. Next to the Phx. Ask the Pharm, people. $2.50 a bottle
I just purchased a big bottle straight from the pharmacy, pure glycerine
OK, next to the bandaids. I have not been able to find it. Perhaps my small desert city only has beer and cigarettes. I will look again.
Went to CVS/Longs Drugs yesterday, they had 24 some oz one at $30 a pop.
I checked CVS tonight and they had a 6 oz bottle of store brand pure glycerin for $4.99.
Today 11-05-09, I just bought a 6 oz. bottle of glycerin oil, at my local Rite-Aide and it was $4.99. My local Wal-Mart no longer stocks it. You have to special order it, for $7.49 for a 6 oz. bottle or a 16 oz. bottle for $19.99. STRAIGHT RAZOR 13.
Nope, it's still soap, it just has added glycerine. If you make soap in the traditional way, by saponification of fats, there is always glycerine in the soap. Fat's are triglycerides, a combination of three fatty acids with glycerine. Soap is actually a salt, formed by the reaction between the fatty acids and the base (usually lye so its a sodium salt), for soap to form, the fatty acids must first be freed from the glycerine, this results in the formation of free glycerine. Unless this is removed from the mix, it remains with the soap. If you add glycerine, either during the initial saponification reaction, or during reprocessing, you will have added glycerine, but the actual soap remains the same.
Cold process soap also contains water. This is because you add the lye as a water solution. You can add water to the mix as well, but this does not change the soap, it just adds water. Glycerine, water, fragrences, colors, and extra fat (as in super fatted soaps) are all just additives, the soap is still just soap. You cannot make soap from glycerine any more than you can make it from water.
I found 99.5%Humco brand glycerin in publix today. It was in the first aid /cosmetics aisle by the antibiotic ointment, not the pharmacy section in the front of the store.
2.99+tax for 6 FL OZ
You sound like me trying to find Castor oil to make pre shave oil. It's with the laxitives. I wonder if continous use is a bad thing. Does it absord into the skin.....?
Anyway, I have never seen Glycerin anywhere, but then again, I live in Jacksonville, Fl.
They have nothing here. I do know you can find it at Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more. Thanks to internet, everything is within my grasp. It normally comes in a clear bottle, some are small, 2oz and up. The Glycerin itself is clear. I would think a pharmacy would have it for sure, or at least point you in the correct aisle....