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INCI ingredient

Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate

Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate appears on 46 ingredient lists in our database, most often in 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

Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate appears on 46 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: cleansing, surfactant - cleansing

Products with Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate

in 46 products

Showing 24 of 46 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • cleansing
  • surfactant - cleansing
  • cleansing: Helping to keep the body surface clean.
  • 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.

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