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INCI ingredient

Disodium Cetearyl Sulfosuccinate

Disodium Cetearyl Sulfosuccinate appears on 16 ingredient lists in our database, most often in deodorants.

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

Disodium Cetearyl Sulfosuccinate appears on 16 ingredient lists in our database, most often in deodorants.

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: cleansing, surfactant - emulsifying, foaming, surfactant - foam boosting, surfactant - hydrotrope, skin conditioning, surfactant - cleansing

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • cleansing
  • surfactant - emulsifying
  • foaming
  • surfactant - foam boosting
  • surfactant - hydrotrope
  • skin conditioning
  • surfactant - cleansing
  • cleansing: Helping to keep the body surface clean.
  • surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
  • 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 - foam boosting: Increasing foaming capacity and/or stabilize foams in general.

CAS 91697-07-3 · EC 294-268-8

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.

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