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In the very old days when there was still an American whaling trade, the most popular whale to kill was the sperm whale. These whales have a big chamber in their heads that holds a wax called spermaceti. There's no sperm in it and the chamber is in both male and female whales, but whalers went after this whale because the six thousand pounds of spermaceti in the head of one whale was worth more than the entire rest of the whale. In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, there's a chapter about how the spermaceti was harvested: they beheaded the whale, tied it to the side of the ship, cut a hole in the spermaceti chamber and dipped out the spermaceti. The same book tells of a whaleman who fell into the chamber and had to be rescued. Today, they don't make lipstick from spermaceti for three reasons--you can't get it anymore, if you could there would be international outrage directed against your company for using it, and jojoba oil happens to have the same chemical composition as spermaceti and is safer to gather as well.
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∙ 12y agoNo.
The product you are thinking of is "spermaceti," which is a fat stored in a cavity in a sperm whale's head. Apparently both male and female sperm whales produce this product. Since you can't fish for sperm whales anymore, they've found plant-based substitutes for it.
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∙ 12y agoNo. Lip gloss has no whale products at all in it.
The chemical in question is "cetyl palmitate," which is also called spermaceti--and it's found in a LOT of cosmetics. It's a fatty stuff, and in the old days when it was still legal to fish for whales they got it from a chamber, which is called the "tun," in the head of a sperm whale. (The part of the whale the sperm used in reproduction comes from is not in the head of the whale, and both male and female sperm whales produce spermaceti.) If you read Moby-Dick, you will learn that the way to get the spermaceti out of a whale head is to kill a whale, tow it back to the whaling ship, cut the head off and hang it nose-down from the side of the ship. (Oh...because these guys were out there trying to get spermaceti, which was expensive, and not whale meat or whalebone, they threw the rest of the whale to the sharks.) Then you got one crewman to get on the head, cut a hole in the tun with an axe, and dip the spermaceti out with a bucket. Which doesn't sound like all that great of a way to make a living to me, but people did it.
Today, cetyl palmitate comes from Jojoba beans. This has many advantages: you don't have to kill a whale to get it, it's a lot less expensive, and no Jojoba plant ever turned around after you picked the beans off it and dragged you 300 feet below the surface of the ocean--which sperm whales have been known to do. You also don't have to crawl around inside the head of a dead whale.
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∙ 13y agoNo.
Yes, there is whale blubber in some lipsticks.
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∙ 13y agoNo, it would be terribly difficult to collect for starters.
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∙ 13y agowhale blubber
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∙ 13y agowhale sperm
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What ingredients are in L'Oreal lipstick infalible?
no but it does have whale blubber.
What is the blubber of an orca whale used for?
lipstick and other products
Does lipstick contain whale?
Yes, it does contain whale blubber but only some brands do.
What are foundation creams made from?
if you mean lipstick, WHALE BLUBBER or FISH SCALES
Does lipstick contain fat?
I'm not certain how it goes these days, however, whale blubber used to be used in making lipstick. I hope for the whale's sake this is no longer so.
Why do they use whale blubber in lipstick?
because its easy to spread but is tough and doesn't fall apart
Where does makeup come from?
Makeup.. Well, "Lipstick" comes from whale blubber. That's all I know.
Is lipstick really made out of whale blubber?
Some lipsticks in fact are made out of whale blubber you can search up the brands that aren't made out of it if that makes you uncomfortable about that and I hope that answers your question :D
Why is whale products so valuable?
well one of the main thing people get from whales and fish is lipstick the blubber from a whale and scales from a fish
About dior that is which animal fat is used in your makeup products?
IM SORRY TO HAVE TO SAY THIS BUT ITS THE POOR ANIMAL OF THE BLUE WHALE. They use Whale blubber in the lipstick....:'(
What is whale fat in?
Whales and other sea mammals have a thick layer of fat in their bodies called blubber which helps the whales and is the cause that whalers hunt whales. The blubber is used to keep the whale warm, and when the whale is in the breeding grounds, he can't eat, so he has to live off the blubber he has saved up. They are important to humans, too. They were used for oil lamps, oil machines, make expensive perfume, etc...
What parts of the whale do you get the blubber from?
Blubber refers to a layer of fat found under the skin layer in some animals. Therefore, the whale blubber is located under the skin layer of the whale.
