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INCI ingredient

Sodium Anisate

Sodium Anisate appears on 78 ingredient lists in our database, most often in liquid soaps.

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

Sodium Anisate appears on 78 ingredient lists in our database, most often in liquid soaps.

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: antimicrobial, fragrance, flavouring, ph adjusters

Products with Sodium Anisate

in 78 products

Showing 24 of 78 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antimicrobial
  • fragrance
  • flavouring
  • ph adjusters
  • antimicrobial: Preventing and/or slowing down microbial growth.
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
  • flavouring: Imparting taste and/or flavour to a cosmetic product.
  • ph adjusters: Controlling the pH of cosmetic products.

CAS 536-45-8 · EC 208-634-1

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