Is lauric acid made from coconut?
Lauric acid is the main fatty acid of both coconut oil and palm kernel oil; it makes up about half of each. Commercial lauric acid comes from one of those two oils, and the label does not say which.
It is used in soap bars and facial cleansers, and it is the starting point for a whole family of ingredients whose names begin with “laur”.
More often than not, this one turns out to be coconut or palm kernel, so it holds a product’s verdict open on its own.
On a label: lauric acid · acido laurico
Products we checked that contain it
1 of the 115 products in the registry. Each one read off the packet by a person, with the date.
Contains coconut (1)
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