Palm oil is in around half of the processed foods that you find in your usual U.S. grocery store. It's also in detergents, soaps, lotions and commonly-used beauty products. The World Wildlife Fund put together a helpful tool to learn more about the products that use palm oil.
Unfortunately, even assuming the product has a label, it's not always easy to identify palm oil as it goes by many different names. Get your scrolling finger ready for the list below:
· Acetic and fatty acid esters of glycerol (472a/E472a)
· 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)
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· 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
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