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Does Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner contain palm oil?Updated 12 hours ago

TL;DR: Some surfactants in Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner are palm-derived, including Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Cocamidopropyl Betaine. All surfactants are sourced from RSPO-certified suppliers (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil), an independent certification body that audits palm oil supply chains. Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner isn't palm-free, but the palm content is responsibly sourced.


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Does it contain palm oil?

Some surfactants in Koh Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner are palm-derived, including Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Cocamidopropyl Betaine. All surfactants are sourced from RSPO-certified suppliers (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil), which is an independent certification body that audits palm oil supply chains for environmental and social standards. Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner is not palm-free, but the palm-derived content comes from RSPO-certified sources.

✓ Sourced from RSPO-certified suppliers

All surfactants in Kitchen Grease & Oil Cleaner are sourced from suppliers certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an independent certification body that audits palm oil supply chains.

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✓ Which ingredients are palm-derived

Two surfactants in the formula are palm-derived: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and Cocamidopropyl Betaine. Both appear on the ingredient list and are common surfactants used across the cleaning industry.

Sodium Lauryl Sulfate Cocamidopropyl Betaine

Why isn't it palm-free?

Most effective plant-based surfactants used in cleaning products are palm-derived because palm oil is highly efficient to grow (more yield per hectare than other vegetable oils) and produces surfactants that perform well across pH ranges. The honest answer to "why not palm-free" is that the alternatives have trade-offs: coconut-derived surfactants have their own land-use and sourcing concerns; petroleum-derived surfactants avoid palm but introduce other environmental issues; some "palm-free" claims rely on undisclosed substitutions that are hard to verify. Koh's approach is RSPO-certified sourcing, which means the palm content is tracked through an independent certification system rather than removed and replaced with an alternative that may have its own issues.

✓ Palm surfactants work well

Most effective plant-based surfactants used in cleaning products are palm-derived. Palm oil is highly efficient to grow (more yield per hectare than other vegetable oils) and produces surfactants that perform reliably across pH ranges.

✓ Alternatives have trade-offs

Coconut-derived surfactants have their own land-use concerns. Petroleum-derived surfactants avoid palm but introduce other issues. RSPO-certified sourcing tracks the palm content through an independent system rather than swapping it for an alternative that may have its own problems.


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Last reviewed: May 2026


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