Carbon black derives its vegan and vegetarian status from petroleum, acetylene.
| 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 carbon black is vegan and vegetarian.
Carbon black is a pigment produced from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It is primarily used as a pigment in cosmetics. Although traditional black pigment was made from the charring of animal bones, today commercial carbon black comes from the burning of heavy-oil fractions or gases like acetylene.