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Oil INCI names / Palm kernel oil

Palm kernel oil INCI name

Palm kernel oil has two INCI names depending on what you make with it: it keeps its botanical name in a lotion or balm, and takes a saponified name in cold-process soap, where the oil reacts with lye and the oil itself is no longer in the finished bar.

In lotions, balms, leave-on and rinse-off productsElaeis Guineensis Kernel Oil
In cold-process soap (saponified with NaOH)Sodium Palm Kernelate
Superfat share in soap (unreacted)Elaeis Guineensis Kernel Oil
Also entered aspalm kernel, pko

Glossary citation: Sodium Palm Kernelate #23369; Elaeis Guineensis Kernel Oil #8462 (Commission Decision (EU) 2019/701 on EUR-Lex).

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Transcribed from the EU glossary of common ingredient names (Decision (EU) 2019/701) and source-audited against it. A labelling reference, not safety advice.