Phenol derives its vegan and vegetarian status from coal tar, benzene, propene.
| 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 phenol is vegan and vegetarian.
Phenol was traditionally obtained from coal tar, however today phenol is produced almost exclusively from petroleum feedstocks like benzene and propene.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol
- https://www.veganpeace.com/ingredients/ingredients.htm#Phenol
- Schmidt, R. J. (2005). Industrial catalytic processes—phenol production. Applied Catalysis A: General, 280(1), 89–103.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2004.08.030 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumene_hydroperoxide