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Vegan preservative for lotion and scrubs
hello, I’m currently looking for a preservative to use in a coffee face scrub and a lotion. I’m new to doing emulsification and am looking for some refferal on types or brands.
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9 Replies
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It’s difficult to say without seeing your whole formula but the most effective preservatives would be methyl / ethyl paraben and maybe DMDM Hydantoin. All of these are vegan.
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@Perry, its funny you would say the parabens are vegan… All the social justice warriors and “hug a tree natural” people would cringe at the thought even though its true.
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In the big picture, it is not terribly difficult to meet a Vegan standard in Cosmetics. I find it strangely prioritized Marketing when used as the lead buzzword.
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to be quite honest, I can’t think of a single preservative which wouldn’t be suitable for vegans
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@Bill_Toge - good point!
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I can think of blends that contain glycerin.
@SpicyKimchi you could use this as refference:
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@DAS
There’s also glycerin from vegetable source.I can’t think of non-vegan preservatives either?
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If you look at Data Sheets for the raw materials, you will find that the vast majority of glycerin containing products (if not all ) use vegetable based Glycerin. As many pointed out, “vegan” in Cosmetics takes a minimum of effort and really becomes a simple exercise of avoiding a minority of available raw materials. It is not a technical exercise rightfully, but really just a simple to achieve marketing bullet point.
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Gluten free is pretty easy to achieve too.
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