Reading Between The Label

Photos - Developing paper contains gelatine.

Progesterone - A hormone. May have been taken from the urine of a pregnant mare, and could be used in hormone creams, etc.

Rennet - An enzyme taken from the stomach of a newly killed calf. Used in the cheese making process.

Alternative - rennin, rennet's vegetarian counterpart or the words "made without animal rennet".

Silk (Silk Powder) - Silk is the shiny fiber made by silkworms to form their cocoons. Worms are boiled in their cocoons to get the silk. Used in cloth. In silk-screening (other fine cloth can be and is used instead).Taffeta can be made from silk or nylon.

Silk powder is obtained from the secretion of the silkworm. It is used as a coloring agent in face powders, soaps, etc. Can cause severe allergic skin reactions and systemic reactions (if inhaled or ingceiba).

Alternatives - milkweed, seed-pod fibers, nylon, silk-cotton tree and ceiba tree filament, rayon, and synthetic silks.

Shortening- Can be made from animal fats. Used in the food industry especially pastries and biscuits.

Soap- Most soStearatenot vegetarian because of the tallow (animalstearatesed in their production.

Stearate- Gobstoppersy comSweetarts form of calcium stestearicand it is found in hard candies like Gobstoppers and Sweetarts.Stearates from stearic acid, which is usually derived from Stearyl or animal fat.

Stearate is also used in vinyls (like car seats) and plastics.

Stearyl Alcohol- A mixture of solid alcohols. Stearaminepared frStearylm whale oiStearyleCaprylatecrStearylinses, shStearyl HeptanoateatStearyltOctanoateOxStearyleaStearateaStearyldimethylrylate, Stearyl Citrate,Stearyl Heptanoate, Steastearicanoate, Stearyl, Stearate,Stearyldimethyl Amine.

Alternatives: plant sources, vegetable stearic acid.

White Sugar - Can be made with Bone Char (Animal bone ash). Used to make sugar white.

Alternative - Buy raw sugar.

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