It is called Zinlac and can be made cheaply from U.S. corn. Natural shellac is produced in much the same way as beeswax. It is a resin secreted by insects called Laccifer lacca. After feeding on ...

This little record, pressed in the 1920s, is made from ‘shellac’. Shellac, a natural resin, was made into a compound that, until the 1940s, was often used in the production of 78 rpm discs.

In all of the cases, shellac was the only individual mascara ingredient to which there was a positive reaction on patch testing (Table 2). Avoidance of Great Lash mascara and substitution with ...

The shellac that many brands also utilize for this candy is actually a resin secreted by insects. Female bugs create this ...

Those ingredients include quaternium-22, shellac, colophony, p-phenylenediamine, yellow carnauba wax, coathylene, black and yellow iron oxides, and nickel. [1,4–8] Furthermore, it is difficult ...