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INCI ingredient

Ammonium Lactate

Ammonium Lactate appears on 7 ingredient lists in our database, most often in cream or lotions.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureplant or animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Ammonium Lactate appears on 7 ingredient lists in our database, most often in cream or lotions.

It does not belong to any of the six groups we check, so it never changes a verdict.

We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.

Functions: buffering, humectant, keratolytic, skin conditioning

Products with Ammonium Lactate

in 7 products

Showing 7 of 7 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • buffering
  • humectant
  • keratolytic
  • skin conditioning
  • buffering: Stabilising the pH of an aqueous medium in a narrow range even if an acid or base is added. Altering and/or maintaining a cosmetic product's pH at the desired level.
  • humectant: Retaining and/or preserving the moisture in a product during use.
  • keratolytic: Helping to eliminate the dead cells of the stratum corneum.
  • skin conditioning: Maintaining the skin in good condition.

CAS 515-98-0 · EC 208-214-8

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

Classification from the INCI name; product lists from Open Beauty Facts.Report a mistake