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INCI ingredient

Sodium Coceth Sulfate

Sodium Coceth Sulfate appears on 14 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
  • SulfateYesa sulfate cleanser
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

If a product lists Sodium Coceth Sulfate, its sulfate-free answer is No. Nothing else changes.

What it does

Sodium Coceth Sulfate appears on 14 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shampoos.

On the label it counts as sulfate, which is why a product that lists it cannot be sulfate-free.

We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.

Functions: cleansing, foaming, surfactant - cleansing

Products with Sodium Coceth Sulfate

in 14 products

Showing 14 of 14 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • cleansing
  • foaming
  • surfactant - cleansing
  • cleansing: Helping to keep the body surface clean.
  • 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 - cleansing: Wetting body surfaces, emulsifying or solubilizing oils, and suspending soil (generally, such ingredients contribute to the foaming and lathering properties of cleansing products).
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.

Sulfate-free instead

Classification from the INCI name; product lists from Open Beauty Facts.Report a mistake