Best vegan tattoo information

• Glycerin: Made from animal fat, glycerin is a common ink stabilizer used to make the ink easier to work with. (But many brands use vegetable glycerin)
• Bone char: Black ink, the most popular and most widely used color of all, is often made from Bone Char, which is the soot from burnt animal bones. Inks containing bone char are said to achieve the darkest, clearest shade of black. (Indian Ink in black ink, consists of burnt animal bones.)
• Gelatin: Made from animal hooves, gelatin is a binder and a frequent ink ingredient.
• Shellack: Shellack is used as a binder and is made from beetles.
• Indigotine 1: Green ink often contains “Indigotine one”, a pigment or color made from Sour Indigotine – which is derived from a special type of snail, which is killed for Indigotine in particular.(As for the green color of many things: even some producers of wasabi pasta mix animal-based indigo into the product.)
• Lanolin: Made from sheep’s wool, lanolin is a common ingredient in lotions, ointments, shingles moisturizers, transfer papers and ointments used during the tattoo process, as well as in aftercare products.
• Beeswax: Used in aftercare lotions and ointments.
• Cod liver oil: Used in aftercare lotions and ointments.
• Vaseline: Can be filtered through Bone Char, or owned by a company that tests on animals (Vaseline is owned by Unilever)

Of course, some of the things listed above may be vegan (vegetable glycerin, black ink, etc.) but it is always good to not just assume they are vegan!