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![]() Today, all whale products can be synthetically produced or other products can be substituted for their use. |
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| Whale Product | Product Derived from | Processing | Alternative Product |
| Whips and Riding Crops | Baleen | Spring Steel | |
| Umbrellas | Baleen | Cut, Carved | Spring Steel |
| Brooms and Brushes | Baleen | Cut, Carved | Spring Steel |
| Corset Stays | Baleen | Cut, Carved | Spring Steel |
| Fertilizer | Bone | Grinding | Seaweed, Various Organic and Composted Materials |
| Medicines and Pharmaceuticals | Spermaceti | Refining and Filtering | Domestic Animal Sources |
| Bicycle Saddles, Handbags, Cases, and Shoes | Whale skin | Tanned | Hides or Skins of Domestic Cattle, Petroleum Products |
| Floor Coverings | Sperm Oil, Whale Oil | Polymerization | Linseed Oil, Jojoba Oil |
| Oil Dressing for Animal Hides Preparation | Sperm Oil | Sulphurized | Acids from Plant Materials |
| Cold Creams, Lipstick, Shaving Cream, Hair Oil, Ointments | Sperm Oil, Blubber | Saponification | Lemon, Orange, Jojoba Oils, Cactus Cream, Avocado, Cucumbers |
| Gelatine | Skin, Bones, Tendons | Boiling | Skin, Bones, Tendons, and Hooves of Domestic Cattle |
| Lubricating Oil | Sperm Oil | Hydrolization | Linseed Oil, Caster Bean Oil, Tung Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Jojoba |
| Textile Finishing | Sperm Oil | Sulphurization | Linseed Oil, Caster Bean Oil, Tung Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Jojoba |
| Blending Agent for Printing Inks | Whale Oil | Polymerized | Plant Extracts and Chemicals |
| Plaster Bases for Carbon Papers and Stencils | Sperm Oil, Whale Oil | Sulphurization, Polymerization | Jojoba Oil, Rapeseed Oil |
| Tennis Racket Strings, Surgical Stitches | Tendons | Stripped | Nylon, other Petroleum Products |
| Margarine, Lard, Shortening | Whale Oil | Hydrogenation | Vegetable oils,
(Soya, Sesame, Corn, Safflower) |
| Carvings and Souvenirs | Whale Teeth, Baleen | Cut, Polished, Carved | Synthetic Materials, Postcards, Photographs, Recordings and Tapes, Carvings on Ivory Nut, Domestic Animal Bone |
| Vitamin A | Whale Liver | Extracted | Carotenes from Carrots, Alfalfa, Cod Liver Oil |
| Animal Feed | Whalemeat | Ground and dried | Residual Seed Meal of Jojoba, Sugarbeets, Seaweed, other Grains, and Domestic Animals |
| Candles | Whale Oil, Sperm Oil, | Hydrogenation | Beeswax, Paraffin, Jojoba, Tallow |
| Crayons and Pencils | Whale Oil, Sperm Oil, | Hydrogenation | Jojoba |
| Glue | Whale Blood | Dehydration | Fishbone |
| Perfume | Ambergris (intestine of the sperm whale) | None | "Fixateur 404" and others based on Oak Moss, Clary Sage, Labadanum, Agar, Wood Oils, etc. |
| Suntan Oils | Whale Oil | Cetyl Alcohol derived from saponification | Jojoba Oil, other Oils |
| Transmission Fluid | Sperm Oil | Refining | Jojoba, Rapeseed |
| Soap | Whale Oil | Saponification | Jojoba, Palm Oil, and others |
| Shoe Horns, Chess Sets,Toys, | Whale Bone | Cut, Carved | Plastics |