abstract |
Proposed are thickeners containing at least one polyhydric alcohol ester according to formula (I), wherein G represents a residue obtained by removing all alcoholic hydroxy groups from a polyhydric alcohol; A represents an alkylene group having from 2 to 3 carbon atoms, all of which may be identical or different alkylene groups randomly distributed or in blocks, n is a number from 101 to 200 and the sum m + p represents the total number of alcoholic hydroxy groups in the polyhydric alcohol, and RCO represents an acyl radical of saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched fatty acids having 6 to 22 carbon atoms. |