As you may know, we’re deep into the making of the first film in our series of shorts about the products we all buy and use every day – and the stories of the people who get those products to us. The first film focuses on palm oil and we invite YOU to be part of the production. No editing expertise necessary and you don’t need to be a cinematographer either.
Your mission is to start checking labels for palm oil. When you find palm oil listed in the ingredients, take a picture and share it with us – on our Facebook page, via Twitter, on Instagram (we just joined!) or email: [email protected]
Be sure to tag your photo with #PHBFpalmoil so that we can begin to see trends in who is using and following this tag!
But wait….this simple mission isn’t THAT simple. Palm oil, after all, is stealthy and has many identities. The names for palm oil and its derivatives include:
· Alkyl Poly Glucoside
· Aluminium stearate
· Aluminium, calcium, sodium, magnesium salts of fatty acids (470/E470a; E470b)
· Ammonium laureth sulphate
· Ammonium lauryl sulphate
· Arachamide mea
· Ascorbyl palmitate
· Ascorbyl palmitate (304)
· Azelaic acid
· Butyl stearate
· Calcium lactylate
· Calcium oleyl lactylate
· Calcium stearate
· Calcium stearoyl lactylate (482/E482)
· Capric triglyceride
· Caprylic acid
· Caprylic / Capric Glycerides
· Caprylic triglyceride
· Caprylic/capric triglyceride
· Caprylic/capric/stearic triglyceride
· Capryloyl glycine
· Caprylyl glycol
· Carotene (Sometimes made from palm)
· Castile soap (often from palm)
· Ceteareth (2-100)
· Cetearyl alcohol
· Cetearyl ethylhexanote
· Cetearyl glucoside
· Cetearyl isononanoate
· Ceteth-20
· Ceteth-24
· Cetyl acetate
· Cetyl alcohol
· Cetyl ethylhexanoate
· Cetyl hydroxyethylcellulose
· Cetyl lactate
· Cetyl octanoate
· Cetyl palmitate
· Cetyl ricinoleate
· Citric and fatty acid esters of glycerol (472c/E472c)
· Cocoa butter equivalent (CBE)
· Cocoa butter substitute (CBS)
· Decyl Glucoside
· Decyl oleate
· Diacetyltartaric and fatty acid esters of glycerol (472e/E472e)
· Dilinoleic acid
· Disodium laureth sulfosuccinate
· Disodium lauryl sulfosuccinate
· Distilled Monoglyceride Palm
· Elaeis guineensis oil
· Emulsifier 422, 430-36, 470-8, 481-483, 493-5
· Epoxidized palm oil (uv cured coatings)
· Ethyl lauroyl arginate (243)
· Ethylene glycol monostearate
· Ethylhexyl hydroxystearate
· Ethylhexyl Palminate
· Ethylhexyl palmitate
· Ethylhexyl stearate
· Ethylhexylglycerin
· Fatty alcohol sulphates
· Glycerin
· Glycerin or glycerol (442)
· Glyceryl distearate
· Glyceryl laurate
· Glyceryl monostearate
· Glyceryl myristate
· Glyceryl oleate
· Glyceryl polymethacrylate
· Glyceryl Rosinate
· Glyceryl stearate
· Glyceryl stearate SE
· Glycol distearate
· Glycol stearate
· Guineesis (palm)
· Hexadecylic
· Hexyl laurate
· Hexyldecanol
· Humectant glycerol
· Hydrogenated palm glycerides
· Isopropyl isostearate
· Isopropyl palmitate
· Isopropyl titanium triisostearate
· Isostearamide DEA
· Isostearate DEA
· Isostearic acid
· Isostearyl alcohol
· Lactic and fatty acid easters of glycerol (472b/E472b)
· Lauramide DEA
· Lauramide MEA
· Lauramine oxide
· Laureth
· Lauric acid
· Lauroyl sarcosine
· Lauryl betaine
· Lauryl lactate
· Lauryl glucoside (from palm)
· Lauryl pyrrolidone
· Linoleic acid
· Magnesium myristate
· Magnesium stearate
· Mixed tartaric, acetic and fatty acid esters of glycerol (472f/E472f)
· Mono-and- di-glycerides of fatty acids (471/E471)
· Mono-glycerides of fatty acids
· Myristate
· Myristic acid
· Myristic Cetrimonium Chloride Acid
· Myristoyl
· Myristyl alcohol
· Myristyl myristate
· Octyl palmitate
· Octyl stearate
· Octyldodecyl myristate
· Octyldodecyl stearoyl stearate
· Oleamide MIPA
· Oleic acid
· Oleyl betaine
· Palm fruit oil
· Palm kernel oil
· Palm oil
· Palm olein
· Palm stearine
· Palmate
· Palmitate
· Palmitic acid
· Palmitamidopropyltrimonium chloride
· Palmitoyl myristyl serinate
· Palmitoyl oxostearamide
· Palmitoyl oligopeptide
· Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-3
· PEG-100 stearate
· PEG-15 stearyl ether
· PEG-150 distearate
· PEG-2 oleamine
· PEG-20 stearate
· PEG-4 laurate
· PEG-40 stearate
· PEG-8 distearate
· PEG-8 stearate
· PEG-80 sorbitan laurate
· Pentaerythrityl tetraisostearate
· Peptide complex
· Polyethylene (40) stearate (431)
· Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids (475/E475)
· Polyglycerol esters of interesterified ricinoleic acid (476/E476)
· Polyglycerol-2 oleyl ether
· Polyglyceryl-3 dilisostearate
· Polyglyceryl-4 isostearate
· Polyglyceryl-4 oleyl ether
· Polysorbate 60 or polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan monostearate (435/E435)
· Polysorbate 65 or polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan tristearate (436/E436)
· Polysorbate 80 or polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan monoolate (433/E433)
· Polysorbate-20
· Polysorbate-40
· Polysorbate-80
· Polysorbate-85
· Potassium stearate
· PPG-15 stearate ether
· Propylene glycol esters of fatty acids (477/E477)
· Propylene glycol laurate
· Propylene glycol stearate
· Retinyl palmitate
· Saponified elaeis guineensis
· Sleareth
· SLES
· SLS
· Sodium cetearyl sulphate
· Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate (SDS or NaDS)
· Sodium Isostearoyl Lactylaye
· Sodium lactylate; sodium oleyl lactylate; sodium stearoyl lactylate (481/E481)
· Sodium laurate
· Sodium laurel
· Sodium laureth sulfate
· Sodium laureth sulphate
· Sodium laureth-13 carboxylate
· Sodium lauroyl lactylate
· Sodium lauryl
· Sodium lauryl ether sulphate
· Sodium lauryl glucose carboxylate
· Sodium lauryl sulfate
· Sodium lauryl sulfoacetate
· Sodium lauryl sulphate
· Sodium palm kernelate
· Sodium palmate
· Sodium palmitate
· Sodium stearate
· Sodium stearoyl lactylate
· Sorbitan isotearate
· Sorbitan laurate
· Sorbitan monostearate (491)
· Sorbitan oleate
· Sorbitan palmitate
· Sorbitan sesquioleate
· Sorbitan trioleate
· Sorbitan tristearate
· Sorbitan tristearate (492)
· Stearalkonium chloride
· Stearalkonium hectorite
· Stearamide MEA
· Stearamidopropyl dimethylamine
· Steareth-10
· Steareth-2
· Steareth-20
· Steareth-21
· Stearic acid (vegetable oil)
· Stearic acid or fatty acid (570)
· Stearoyl sarcosine
· Stearyl alcohol
· Stearyl dimethicone
· Stearyl heptanoate
· Sucrose stearate
· Sucroseesters of fatty acids (473/E473)
· Taxanomic
· TEA-lauryl sulphate
· TEA-stearate
· Tocopheryl linoleate
· Triacetin
· Triacetin (1518)
· Tribehenin
· Tricaprylin
· Tristearin
· Zinc stearate
Thanks in advance to everyone who contributes to helping us spread the word!