The first paragraph on that page says,
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Furthermore, many ingredients known by one name can be of animal, vegetable, or synthetic origin. If you have a question regarding an ingredient in a product, call the manufacturer
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It's possible a manufacturer may use truly animal-derived products (as in extracting the chemical from an actual animal source as opposed to synthesizing it in a lab), but generally not everything that contains an "animal product" contain actual animal extracts.
As for the musk oil, again, the development of chemistry over the years has pretty much relegated the practices you list obsolete. More info on musk
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Sorry I don't mean to be so picky on this, but as a chemist, I see a lot of misconceptions chemistry in today's society. There's one side where using "natural means" is considered bad, due to using up plant and animal "resources", and then the other side says "synthetic means" are bad, given chemical pollution. I've personally had to drive through Greenpeace picketers at an old place of employment because we burned hazardous waste. Something like that irritates the heck out of me, because what did they use to write their signs? Markers. That need solvents. That need to be manufactured. Where the manufacturing process generates waste. Ya know???
Again, I'm not meaning in any way to jump on you, but just want to put my (probably overstated) opinion out there...
Joanne
