Potassium Tallowate
Potassium Tallowate appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shavings.
What it triggers
- Vegan originNoanimal-derived
- FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
- ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
- SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
- SiliconeNonot a silicone
- AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol
If a product lists Potassium Tallowate, its vegan answer is No. Nothing else changes.
What it does
Potassium Tallowate appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shavings.
On the label it counts as vegan, which is why a product that lists it cannot be vegan.
We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.
Functions: surfactant - emulsifying, surfactant - cleansing
Products with Potassium Tallowate
in 3 products
Palmolive Stick à raser/Shave Stick Classic (with Palm Extract)Palmolive · shaving
Wholly Kaw PompelmoWholly Kaw · shaving
Wholly Kaw King of OudWholly Kaw · shaving
Showing 3 of 3 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- surfactant - emulsifying
- surfactant - cleansing
- surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
- surfactant - cleansing: Wetting body surfaces, emulsifying or solubilizing oils, and suspending soil (generally, such ingredients contribute to the foaming and lathering properties of cleansing products).
CAS 61790-32-7 · EC 263-124-6
Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.
Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.




