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Use of Tallow In Cosmetics
Hello. I see several small companies selling tallow based skincare products. Does anyone know if this is allowed by FDA regulations?
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Not absolutely certain, but I had a couple of Tallow inquiries last week. Perhaps an emerging trend.
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A previous member of this group thought that tallow is NOT used because, as he said, “PETA would be all over them”. Maybe this was referring to LARGE companies, who’d be noticed by PETA, but not small ones(?).
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It’s used in cosmetics soaps typically as tallowate - FDA does not have authority over pure soap.
if your concern is for BSE - see: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=700.27 -
Tallow is primarily tryglyceride composed of Oleic and Stearic Fatty Acids. Should not be a problem in cosmetic products.
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Technically not a problem, but from a marketing standpoint it might be.
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Agreed with all: still good to use but neither vegan nor Halal. An aside: should you ever want to buy tallow-based glycerin USP, Kosher or non, you’ll pay twice the price for a special order with a two-week lead time, and then only through select distributors such as Rierden Chemical in Chicago (hometown of commodity tallow). This is why I start to steam every time I see greenies mention “vegetable glycerin” in their label copy and marketing blurbs. Listen up homeys: it is ALL Vegetable Glycerin!! Byproduct of biodiesel and palm & coconut oil fatty acid fractionation. ALL of it. So much veggie glycerin around they need inventive ways to use it up faster.
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I had once asked if I could order stearic acid FROM TALLOW. I was given the response, “Only YOU would buy it” Such a WASTE to NOT use up the fat from the cattle industry. It’s nice to see it being used by some large soap manufacturers, at least. I am lucky enough to be able to BUY the waste fat from the local Water Buffalo people around here at least. Saves it from anaerobic decomposition in our local landfill.
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But, if the cows are only fed grass, would it not then be Vegan? And, what if the cows are Jew-ish like George Santos?
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MarkBroussard said:But, if the cows are only fed grass, would it not then be Vegan?Grass-Fed-Gan?
Vegetarian fed, free range, grass fed-gan tallow.
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@MarkBroussard: you MUST be spanked!
Further to tallow from grass-fed. It’s $25 for 750 grams. Tallow from grain-fed cattle is $16 for 1500 grams. I’m sure the grass-fed is magical. -
Yeah, but the grass fed cows are Vegans … Vegecowllow
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chemicalmatt said:Agreed with all: still good to use but neither vegan nor Halal. An aside: should you ever want to buy tallow-based glycerin USP, Kosher or non, you’ll pay twice the price for a special order with a two-week lead time, and then only through select distributors such as Rierden Chemical in Chicago (hometown of commodity tallow). This is why I start to steam every time I see greenies mention “vegetable glycerin” in their label copy and marketing blurbs. Listen up homeys: it is ALL Vegetable Glycerin!! Byproduct of biodiesel and palm & coconut oil fatty acid fractionation. ALL of it. So much veggie glycerin around they need inventive ways to use it up faster.
By Halal do you mean for muslims?
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We worked on a Hand Balm. A legacy Formula was provided and they used tallow in the product. Once they began sales, they did get some pushback. They reformulated for this reason as well as some issues they were having in obtaining consistent stocks of the tallow to support larger manufacturer runs.
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