English-French translations for preservative

• conservateur
  Dans le reste de l'UE cependant, il est couramment utilisé comme conservateur dans les shampooings pour cheveux "pour toute la famille". However, in the EU it is commonly used as a preservative in "family" hair shampoos.
  Les produits doivent redevenir naturels et exempts d'additifs et de conservateurs chimiques. Produce must return to being natural and free from additives and chemical preservatives.
  Le merthiolate, qui contient du mercure, est utilisé comme conservateur dans certains médicaments, y compris dans les vaccins. Merthiolate, which contains mercury, is used as a preservative in some medicines, including in vaccines.
• préservatif

Definition of preservative

• Any agent, natural or artificial that acts to preserve, especially when added to food
• Tending to preserve

Examples

• Salt, sugar, and acid all act as preservatives when making pickles.
• The curators took preservative actions to maintain the ancient collection.

Related words

• self-preservation
• preservation
• cryopreservation
• cyropreservation
• instinct of self-preservation
• food preservative
• data preservation
• tree preservation licence
• tree preservation order