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INCI ingredient

Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate

Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate appears on 147 ingredient lists in our database, most often in anti-dandruff shampoos.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateYesa sulfate cleanser
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

If a product lists Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate, its sulfate-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate appears on 147 ingredient lists in our database, most often in anti-dandruff shampoos.

On the label it counts as sulfate, which is why a product that lists it cannot be sulfate-free.

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

Functions: cleansing, foaming, surfactant - cleansing

Products with Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate

in 147 products

Showing 24 of 147 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • cleansing
  • foaming
  • surfactant - cleansing
  • cleansing: Helping to keep the body surface clean.
  • foaming: Traping numerous small bubbles of air or other gas within a small volume of liquid by modifying the surface tension of the liquid.
  • surfactant - cleansing: Wetting body surfaces, emulsifying or solubilizing oils, and suspending soil (generally, such ingredients contribute to the foaming and lathering properties of cleansing products).

CAS 2235-54-3 · EC 218-793-9

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.

Sulfate-free instead

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