Associations to the word «Humectant»

Wiktionary

HUMECTANT, noun. Any substance that promotes the retention of water, especially one used to keep a food product moist

Dictionary definition

HUMECTANT, noun. Any substance that is added to another substance to keep it moist.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope