Kester Black's Ingredient Blacklist
What we leave out of our products is almost as important as what we put into them. Here you'll find a list of all of the ingredients we promise to never use. We fine tune our 100% vegan and cruelty free formulas to get them just right; without involving any animals along the way.
- Animal ingredients
- Parabens
- Sulfates: SLS & SLES
- Phthalates
- Mineral Oil
- Formaldehydes
- Formaldehyde-releasing agents
- Retinyl Palmitate
- Oxybenzone
- Coal Tar
- Hydroquinone
- Triclosan
- Triclocarban
- Synthetic Fragrances (In skincare, makeup, and hair products only, synthetic fragrances allowable at concentrations below 1% of total formula)
- Ethyl acrylate
- Ethyl methacrylate
- Methyl methacrylate
- Butyl methacrylate
- Hydroxypropyl methacrylate
- Tetrahydrofurfuryl methacrylate
- Trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate
- Aluminum Salts
- Animal Oils/Musks/Fats
- Butoxyethanol
- Carbon Black
- Lead
- Lead Acetate
- Methyl Cellosolve
- Methoxyethanol
- Methoxyethanol
- Methylchloroisothiazolinone
- Methylisothiazolinone
- Mercury Mercury Compounds (Thimerisol)
- Resorcinol
- Talc
- Toluene
- BHA
- BHT
- DEA
- TEA
- MEA
- ETA
- Petrolatum
- Parrafin
- Polyacrylamide
- Acrylamide
- Bromostyrene
- Sodium styrene/divinylbenzene copolymer
- Styrene oxide
- Styrene
- 1,4 Dioxane
