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INCI ingredient

Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate

Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate appears on 136 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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 Sarcosinate appears on 136 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toothpastes.

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: antistatic, cleansing, surfactant - emulsifying, foaming, hair conditioning, skin conditioning, surfactant - cleansing, viscosity controlling

Products with Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate

in 136 products

Showing 24 of 136 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antistatic
  • cleansing
  • surfactant - emulsifying
  • foaming
  • hair conditioning
  • skin conditioning
  • surfactant - cleansing
  • viscosity controlling
  • antistatic: Preventing and/or reducing static electricity by neutralising electrical charge on surfaces.
  • cleansing: Helping to keep the body surface clean.
  • surfactant - emulsifying: Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
  • foaming: Traping numerous small bubbles of air or other gas within a small volume of liquid by modifying the surface tension of the liquid.

CAS 137-16-6 · EC 205-281-5

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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