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...The whipped cream you pile on your favorite pie probably contains KLUCEL® hydroxypropylcellulose (HPC). Very likely, it's also the thickening agent in your favorite veggie dip. Enjoy!

...NATROSOL® hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) is used in hair conditioner to make it easier for you to comb your hair and detangle those curly locks.

...Carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) is a thickener used in hair-coloring products. What does it do? It keeps the dye on your hair instead of dripping down your face and neck.

...CULMINAL® methylcellulose powders are a boon to the construction industry. In premixed dry mortars, they enhance application and finishing characteristics and strength properties for such building applications as gypsum machine plasters, cement stuccos, tile cements, masonry mortars, and joint and crack fillers.

...AQUALON® cellulose gum or carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), makes your cakes and baked goods fluffier and moister.

...Without Hercules products, toothpaste would not lay on top of the toothbrush bristles. CMC is used to thicken today's favorite brands of toothpaste.

...Without Hercules products, some of the most popular brands of latex paint would drip, run, and badly spatter. Aqualon's NATROSOL® HEC is used as a latex paint thickener, and NATROSOL® Plus modified hydroxyethylcellulose as an "anti-spatter" paint thickener.

...Without Hercules products, getting oil out of the ground would be more difficult. Aqualon's products are used extensively in the oilfield drilling, cementing, and fracturing processes. CMC is used to thicken drilling fluids; NATROSOL® HEC is employed to prevent water loss from oilfield cements; and GALACTASOL® HP guar is used to thicken fracturing fluids.

...Without Hercules products, eating a taco would be quite messy. CMC is used to strengthen the popular brands of taco shells.

...Hercules products are used in many prescription drug, over-the-counter drug, and nutraceutical formulations globally. KLUCEL® hydroxypropylcellulose is the most effective tablet binder, enabling tablets to stay intact and easier to swallow.

...The cloudy appearance of your thirst-quenching sports drink or orange soda comes from a pine tree stump?  HERCULES®  Ester Gum 8BG glycerol ester of wood rosin, produced exclusively by Pinova in Brunswick, Georgia, is the only approved product of its kind for use as a weighting agent in citrus-flavored beverages.  Its addition at less than 100 parts per million keeps the citrus flavor oil from separating from the water in the beverage, while also imparting the “cloud”.

…The active germ-killing ingredient in the world’s leading brand of pine oil cleaner found on your supermarket shelves is YARMOR® pine oil?  It also provides the fresh, natural pine scent.

…If you chew premium gum, it is very likely you are chewing on ingredients manufactured by Pinova?  STAYBELITE® hydrogenated rosin esters and PICCOLYTE® polyterpene resins are among the leading worldwide resins used in chewing gum base.  Our resins plasticize and compatibilize the other base ingredients with the flavors and sweeteners in gum, giving the desired mouth feel and flavor release.

…The adhesive that holds a transdermal medication patch or a sterile surgical drape to human skin may be tackified with FORAL® resins?

...The fresh citrus fruit you buy may be sealed with a coating containing FDA-approved PENTALYN® resins?  Besides contributing the attractive shiny appearance, this coating keeps in moisture and prolongs freshness.

...That the properties of concrete are improved with chemical admixtures? Causing tiny air bubbles to be dispersed throughout fresh concrete mix improves the ultimate strength and freeze-thaw resistance of the finished concrete.  For decades, neutralized VINSOL® resin, a unique extract from pine stumps, has been the reference standard as a highly effective concrete air-entraining agent.

...The fragrance emanating from your scented candle may be coming from a compound containing HERCOLYN® D liquid rosin ester as well as a number of aroma chemicals made by Pinova?   

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...PROSOFT® softener helps produce tissue with exceptional softness and appearance.

...KYMENE® wet-strength resins are used in most of the paper currencies around the world to make sure that the money stays strong and tough when it gets wet. This product also treats you right when you've got a cold. You can blow your nose with confidence when using major-brand tissues made with KYMENE® wet-strength resins.

...AQUAPEL® sizing agents are used in most milk and juice cartons to prevent them from leaking.

...Many of your photographs look better because they are printed on paper that has been treated with HERCON® sizing agents or KYMENE® wet-strength resins.

...HI-PHASE® rosin sizing agents are used in paper cups to help keep the liquid in the cup.

...Cardboard boxes are made with PEXOL® rosin sizing agents, so that if the box containing your new TV set gets wet, your TV doesn't.

...If your wet paper towel stays together while scrubbing, then it probably contains KYMENE® wet-strength resin.

...If you fly on any commercial airline in the world, the high performance lubricant (not your father's 10W-30) used in jet engines is made either from HERCULES® pentaerythritol or HERCOLUBE® PE basestocks. Our oil flows at -40C (cold starts after sitting all night on a runway in Minneapolis in January) and remains stable for 100's of hours flying at 39,000 feet at over 100C (not necessary to change this oil every 3,000 miles).

...Most cars use HERCULES® PE-based lubricants, PE-based plasticizers, and PE-based greases for motors (power windows, windshield wipers), hoses and belts, and wires.

...Many of the new and next generation compressors that use non-ozone depleting freon substitutes use HERCULES® PE ester-based products. As old technology "Ozone depleting/Freon using" compressors are replaced with these new technologies, the use of HERCULES® PE-based esters will more than double in the next five years.

...ChemVision™ CA1000, curing resin is used in a proprietary Building Products adhesive formulate to laminate Decorative veneer plywood. The curing resin provides bond strength, water resistance and is formaldehyde free - safe for the environment.

...Scripset® SMA resins are used in combination with starch to produce a water based adhesive that sticks to glass. During recycling the bottles under go a mild alkaline wash which de-activates the Scripset resin adhesive matrix to easily remove the label and reuse the bottles.

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