Also known as 1,2-octylene glycol, 1,2-dihydroxyoctane, caprylyl glycol, octane-1,2-diol
1,2-Octanediol, also known as caprylyl glycol, is a diol with the molecular formula CH(CH)CHOHCHOH.
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1,2-Octanediol, also known as caprylyl glycol, is a diol with the molecular formula CH(CH)CHOHCHOH.
It is a common component of many creams and ointments, where it is used as a skin conditioning agent. It is also noted to have some antimicrobial (preserving) ability.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).