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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?

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    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)

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    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.

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    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.

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    the glycerin is where the band aid is.
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    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.

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    Thanks, guys. Baking isle and vaseline/mineral oil isle. I will look tomorrow.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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

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