Humectants honey

Most common sugar, abundant in free and combined form. Occurs free in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, lymph, urine of diabetic subjects, fruits, honey and plant juices Major component of many oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. Occurs in sucrose combined with fructose. Comly. available by the acid hydrol. of potato starch (Europe) and cornstarch (USA). Fluid and nutrient replenisher. Food additive nutritive sweetener, humectant. Tablet diluent. pAat 12.34 (25°). Sweet taste, sweetness = 0.46 x sucrose. 

It is a mixture of about 50% fructose and 50% glucose. It is used in foods and confections. In some foods it is used as a humectant to hold moisture and prevent drying. The brewing industry also uses invert sugar. Honey is mostly invert sugar. 

Honey is used as a fragrance ingredient and humectant (in skin conditioners), also a biological additive in shampoos face, body, and hand creams and lotions bath products, hair conditioners cleansing products moisturizing creams and lotions and paste masks (mud packs) (nikitakis). 

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