Cocamide
Cocamide appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shampoos.
What it triggers
- Vegan originYesno 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
Cocamide appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shampoos.
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: surfactant - emulsifying, emulsion stabilising, surfactant - cleansing, viscosity controlling
Products with Cocamide
in 3 products
Rapunzel Shampoo coco y biotinaRapunzel · shampoo- no photoPura D'Or Anti Hair-Thinning Biotin ShampooPura D'Or · shampoo
Sagrotan Sanft zur HautSagrotan · bar soap
Showing 3 of 3 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- surfactant - emulsifying
- emulsion stabilising
- surfactant - cleansing
- viscosity controlling
- surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
- emulsion stabilising: Helping the process of emulsification and improving emulsion stability and shelf-life.
- 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).
- viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.
CAS 61789-19-3 · EC 263-039-4
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.