INCI ingredient

Tallow Acid

Tallow Acid appears on 5 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

What it triggers

If a product lists Tallow Acid, its vegan answer is No. Nothing else changes.

Tallow Acid appears on 5 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

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: cleansing, skin conditioning - emollient, surfactant - emulsifying, refatting, skin conditioning, surfactant - cleansing

in 5 products

Showing 5 of 5 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

Functions listed by CosIng

cleansing: Helping to keep the body surface clean.
skin conditioning - emollient: Acting as lubricants on the skin surface providing the skin with a soft and smooth appearance.
surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
refatting: Replenishing the lipids of the hair or of the top layers of the skin.

CAS 61790-37-2 · EC 263-129-3

EU regulation

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.

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