Methyl Lactate
Methyl Lactate appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.
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
Methyl Lactate appears on 3 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.
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: solvent, perfuming, flavouring
Products with Methyl Lactate
in 3 products
Colgate-Palmolive Gel douche rafraîchissantColgate-Palmolive · shower gel
Playboy New York, Shower Gel & ShampooPlayboy · shampoo
Neutrogena Visibly Clear Désincrustant Points NoirsNeutrogena · scrub
Showing 3 of 3 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- solvent
- perfuming
- flavouring
- solvent: Dissolving other components of cosmetics. Solvents are usually liquids (aqueous and nonaqueous).
- perfuming: Used for perfume and aromatic raw materials.
- flavouring: Imparting taste and/or flavour to a cosmetic product.
CAS 27871-49-4 / 547-64-8 · EC 248-704-9 / 208-930-0
Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.
CosIng records a perfuming function for this ingredient.
Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.