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INCI ingredient

Sodium Chloride

Also listed as: Södium Chloride, Sodium çhloride, Sodium Chloríde, Sodium Sodium Chloride

Table salt, used to thicken shampoos and shower gels.

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

A pinch of salt makes surfactant-based products thicker, which is why it turns up in so many shampoos, body washes and hand soaps.

It is a mineral and affects none of the checks. It is not a sulfate.

Functions: viscosity control

Products with Sodium Chloride

in 3,914 products

Showing 24 of 3,914 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • bulking
  • fragrance
  • oral care
  • viscosity controlling
  • bulking: Non-reactive (chemically inert), solid ingredients that dilute other solids and/or increase the volume of cosmetic products.
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
  • oral care: Providing cosmetic effects to the oral cavity, e.g. cleansing, deodorising, protecting.
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.

CAS 7647-14-5 · EC 231-598-3

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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