Hot List for Veggies To Spot Animal Derived Ingredients in Cosmetics
Being a vegetarian can be difficult as some ingredients have a name that does not indicate where they came from, or they can come from vegetable as well as animal sources. Get a simple list of these tricky cosmetic ingredients with their INCI name so you can do your shopping with your eyes well open!
Hot List For Veggies
This list is made listing the common names of the ingredients as well as their INCI name (the one used on the ingredients list), along with their alternative (meaning the same ingredient with the same name but from an alternative source)
|
Name |
INCI |
Alternative |
|
Hyaluronic acid (bovine) |
Hyaluronic acid |
either synthetic or biofermented |
|
Elastin (bovine or fish) |
Elastin |
no |
|
Collagen and derivatives (bovine and fish derived) |
Collagen (derivatives have collagen in the full name) |
Plant collagen available but rare |
|
Squalane (from shark liver) |
Squalane |
vegetarian alternative from olives |
|
Squalene (from shark liver) |
Squalene |
vegetarian alternative from olives |
|
Chitosan and derivatives (from crabs or crustaceous) |
Chitosan (derivatives have chitosan in the full name) |
no |
|
Chitin and derivatives (from crabs or crustaceous)
|
Chitin |
no |
|
Carmine (from Cochineal insect) |
CI 75470 |
no |
|
Shellac (from the Shellac insect) |
Shellac |
no
|
|
Glycerine |
Glycerine |
vegetarian alternative from vegetable oils |
|
Lanolin and derivatives (from wool grease) |
Lanolin |
not with the same name |
|
Keratin and derivatives (from vertebrates) |
keratin |
no |
|
Sericin (from silk) |
Sericin |
no |
|
DNA (from fish) |
Sodium DNA |
no |
|
Protamine (from fish) |
Protamine |
no |
|
Caviar extract |
Caviar extract |
no |
|
Beeswax derivatives Beeswax Propolis Honey Royal Jelly |
Cera alba or Cera flava Propolis Honey or Mel Royal Jelly |
no |
|
Lecithin (from eggs) |
Lecithin |
vegetarian alternative from soy |
This list is not exhaustive, but it contains the most common tricky ingredients for you to get familiar with and get savy about
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March 16th, 2008 at 11:43 am
A very useful list. Thank you for assembling it. I will link to it shortly and will send it to my residency program director.