Do they need to say they use animal fat to make soap? Or is it a case if it doesn’t say it doesn’t use animal fat, it definitely has animal fat in the ingredient?
How about Fairy Liquid? (Sorry America, it’s a British washing-up liquid. I am not trying to be flipp.)
What Name Is Animals Fat Used To Make Soap And Washing-up Liquid Hidden Behind?
December 6, 2009 By 16 Comments
Anything with the word “tallow” in it. I believe it’s usually listed as “sodium tallowate” or something like that.
Fairy Liquid is also tested on animals by the big animal-tester company Procter & Gamble. Regardless of what’s in it, just think of how they tested it to make sure it is safe to use in the first place….
Lye, tallow, lanolin…. Do they have health-food stores where you are? Like Mother’s Market, Whole Foods, or Trader Joes? Probably not, but they may have something similar. You can find all sorts of all-natural products. I prefer products that don’t have chemicals in them. Or animal by-products… It’s hard though because gelatin is made from animal bones, pig, I think. Gross. Gelatin is in everything… Icky!
Animal fats are not used now. The detergents are all chemical now.
LYE
Many detergents – including Fairy Liquid – are made from derivatives of crude oil. Other detergents and many soaps are made from Palm oil, Rape seed oil or coconut oil which are all pure vegetable products. Some soaps or cosmetics contain lanolin, that is the grease from sheeps wool, but its not animal fat.
Very few modern soaps and detergents use animal fats. Its quality is too variable for volume production methods.
they dnt use it nowadays even the old fashioned sopas like pears
You mean lanolin?
If you want a non-lanolin detergent, try the Ecover range.
A long time ago they used Tallow that was chemically reacted with lye to make soap.
They do not do that anymore for commercially produced soaps and detergents.
Some back woods people still make the stuff that way and it seriously drys out your skin.
Edit – For those of you claiming that Lye is an animal product, it is not. Lye is what you get when you drip water through wood ashes. It is a caustic with a PH around 10.5.
Tallow…also used to make candles.
The animal fat is tallow. Soap making with tallow was common in Spain and Italy by the 13th. Century. Most ‘tallow-free’ soap will say on the packet that it is produced from vegetable oils only. No idea about Fairy Liquid but my guess would be that it includes tallow in its ingredients.
Detergents are a by product of oil refining like allot of products that we take for granted today, they were traditionally made from animal by products that are sustainable, so its not a question of if but when we return to using animal by products.
Lanolin is a animal fat used in soaps etc…
I’m allegic to lanolin. It makes my mother’s and my scalp Inflame (dermatitis reaction). Now I know why. They sell it at those little nature organic stores as this “great” product for skin but it’s murder on our skin really. Now I know why. Coconut oil soap is really goood. There’s this 100% vegan brand that’s name escapes me at the moment. It’s cruelty free.
Tallow my dear, .
we used it in engineering, looks like hard dripping.
Animal fats are used in commercial detergents, they call them sodium tallowate, Lye is not an animal fat.