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What are some common animal-ingredients to avoid in beauty products?

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• ​Albumen: Usually derived from egg whites and used as a coagulating agent.

• Allantoin: May be derived from uric acid from cows or other mammals.

• Arachidonic Acid: A liquid unsaturated fatty acid that is found in liver, brain, glands, and fat of animals and humans. Generally isolated from animal liver.

• Beeswax (also known as: Apic cerana, Apis Mel, Apis mellifera, Apis Mellifica, Bees Wax, Bleached Beeswax, Cera Alba, Cera de Abejas, Cera Flava, Cire d'Abeille, Cire d'Abeille Blanche, Cire d'Abeille Blanchie, Cire d'Abeille Jaune, Cire Blanche, Cire Jaune, White Beeswax, White Wax, Yellow Beeswax, Yellow Wax.)– Beeswax is a product made from the honeycomb of the honeybee and other bees.

• Carmine (also known as: Crimson Lake, Cochineal, Natural Red 4, C.I. 75470, or E120⁾– Carmine is a red dye made from crushed scale insects, typically cochineal or Polish cochineal insects. This dye is used in a wide variety of products, from cheese to paints, and people are often unaware of its use, due to the fact that labeling laws do not usually require its disclosure.

• Collagen: Usually derived from animal tissue.

• Cystine: An amino acid found in urine and horsehair.

• Elastin (also known as: ELN and tropoelastin)– Elastin is a protein in connective tissue that is elastic and allows many tissues in the body to resume their shape after stretching or contracting.

• Gelatine: Protein obtained by boiling skin, tendons, ligaments, and/or bones with water.

• Glycerine: A by-product of soap manufacture (normally uses animal fat).

• Hyaluronic acid (also known as: Acide Hyaluronique, Ácido Hialurónico, Glycoaminoglycan, Glycoaminoglycane, Hyaluran, Hyaluronan, Hyaluronate de Sodium, Hyaluronate Sodium, Hylan, Sodium Hyaluronate.)– A viscous fluid carbohydrate present in connective tissue, synovial fluid, and the humors of the eye.

• Keratin: Protein from the ground-up horns, hooves, feathers, quills, and hair of various animals.

• Lactic Acid: Found in blood and muscle tissue. Also in sour milk, beer, sauerkraut, pickles, and other food products made by bacterial fermentation.

• Lactose/Lactalbumin (also known as: Lactose, lactosum, O-ß-D-Galactopyranosyl-A-D-Glucopyranose, Laktose )– is a disaccharide sugar that is found most notably in milk and is formed from galactose and glucose.

• Lanolin (also known as: wool grease, wool wax, amerchol, aloholes lanae, anyhydrous lanolin and adeps lanae anhydrous.)– A yellowish-white wax secreted by the sebaceous glands of sheep to coat wool. Lanolin is composed of esters and polyesters of almost seventy alcohols and fatty acids.

• Lard– Fat from the abdomen of a pig that is rendered and clarified for use in cooking.

• Lecithin: Waxy substance found in nervous tissue of all living organisms. But, frequently obtained for commercial purposes from eggs and soybeans.

• Lipids: Fat and fat-like substances that are found in animals and plants.

• Myristic Acid: A type of acid found in most animal and vegetable fats.

• Oleic Acid: Obtained from various animal and vegetable fats and oils. Usually obtained commercially from inedible tallow.

• Pearl Essence-- a lustrous, silvery-white substance obtained from the scales of certain fishes or derived synthetically, as from mercuric chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of simulated pearls and as a pigment in lacquer.

• Progesterone: A steroid hormone used in some anti-wrinkle face creams.

• Propolis (also known as: Acide de Cire d'Abeille, Baume de Propolis, Bee Glue, Bee Propolis, Beeswax Acid, Cire d'Abeille Synthétique, Cire de Propolis, Colle d'Abeille, Hive Dross, Pénicilline Russe, Propóleos, Propolis Balsam, Propolis Cera, Propolis d'Abeille, Propolis Resin, Propolis Wax, Résine de Propolis, Russian Penicillin, Synthetic Beeswax.)– is a resinous mixture that honey bees collect from tree buds, sap flows, or other botanical sources.

• Silk derivitives– A fine lustrous fiber composed mainly of fibroin and produced by certain insect larvae to form cocoons, especially the strong, elastic, fibrous secretion of silkworms used to make thread and fabric.

• Stearic Acid: Fat obtained from cows and sheep. Most often refers to a fatty substance taken from the stomachs of pigs.

• Squalane– is a natural organic compound originally obtained for commercial purposes primarily from shark liver oil.

• Tallow– A hard fatty substance made from rendered animal fat.

• Vitamin A: Can come from fish liver oil (e.g. shark liver oil), egg yolk, wheat germ oil, carotene in carrots, and synthetics.