Acetone derives its vegan and vegetarian status from benzene, propylene.
| Vegan? Yes | Vegetarian? Yes |
Classifications are made based on the available commercial supply of the ingredient, and are made based on the criteria on our classifications page.
Commercially available acetone is vegan and vegetarian.
Acetone is an organic ketone used as a solvent and as an intermediate in the production of many other chemicals like methacrylate and bisphenol A. It is commercially produced from benzene and propylene via the cumene process.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone
- https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/ACETONE#section=Methods-of-Manufacturing
- Weber, M., Pompetzki, W., Bonmann, R., & Weber, M. (2014). Acetone. Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 1–19.
https://doi.org/10.1002/14356007.a01_079.pub4