Octocrylene derives its vegan and vegetarian status from ethyl cyanoacetate, benzophenone.
| 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 octocrylene is vegan and vegetarian.
Octocrylene is a compound used in sunscreens and cosmetics. It is manufactured from 2-ethylhexyl cyanoacetate and benzophenone. There is little information online about the commercial manufacturing of 2-ethylhexyl cyanoacetate so we assume it is similar to the manufacture of ethyl cyanoacetate for the purpose of determining the vegan status.