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Only 3 vegetable oils must be labelled in food products in Australia and New Zealand. Those are peanut oil, sesame oil and soy bean oil.
The reason for this is that a percentage of the population suffers allergies to these oils. Note: Palm sugar and vegetable gum is not palm oil.
This list is a guide only. If an ingredient in the product you are researching has any one of the following names then it is highly likely to be derived from palm oil or have palm content. Some of these ingredients can be derived from other sources.
Acetic and fatty acid esters of glycerol
Alkyl Poly Glucoside
Aluminium stearate
Aluminium, calcium, sodium, magnesium salts of fatty acids
Ammonium laureth sulphate
Ammonium lauryl sulphate
Arachamide mea
Ascorbyl palmitate (304)
Ascorbyl stearate
Azelaic acid
Butyl stearate
Calcium lactylate
Calcium oleyl lactylate
Calcium stearate
Calcium stearoyl lactylate
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
Cocoa butter equivalent (CBE)
Cocoa butter substitute (CBS)
Cocamide DEA
Cocamidopropyl betaine
Decyl Glucoside
Decyl oleate
Diacetyltartaric and fatty acid esters of glycerol
Dilinoleic acid
Disodium laureth sulfosuccinate
Disodium lauryl sulfosuccinate
Distilled Monoglyceride Palm
Elaeis guineensis oil
Emulsifiers: E304, E422, E430, E431, E432, E433, E434, E435, E436, E470, E470a, E470b, E471, E472, E472a, E472b, E472c, E472e, E472f, E473, E474, E475, E476, E477, E478, E479, E480, E481, E482, E483, E493, E494, E495
Emulsifying wax
Epoxidized palm oil (uv cured coatings)
Ethyl lauroyl arginate (243)
Ethylene glycol monostearate
Ethylhexyl hydroxystearate
Ethylhexyl Palminate
Ethylhexyl palmitate
Ethylhexyl stearate
Ethylhexylglycerin
Fatty acids
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
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
Mono-and- di-glycerides of fatty acids
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
Pentaerythrityl tetraisostearate
Peptide complex
Polyethylene (40) stearate (431)
Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids
Polyglycerol esters of interesterified ricinoleic acid
Polyglycerol-2 oleyl ether
Polyglyceryl-3 dilisostearate
Polyglyceryl-4 isostearate
Polyglyceryl-4 oleyl ether
Polysorbate 60 or polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan monostearate
Polysorbate 65 or polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan tristearate
Polysorbate 80 or polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan monoolate
Polysorbate-20
Polysorbate-40
Polysorbate-80
Polysorbate-85
Potassium stearate
PPG-15 stearate ether
Propylene glycol esters of fatty acids
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
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
Taxanomic
TEA-lauryl sulphate
TEA-stearate
Tocopheryl linoleate
Triacetin
Triacetin (1518)
Tribehenin
Tricaprylin
Tristearin
Vegetable glycerin
Vegetable Oil
Vitamin A palmitate
Zinc stearate