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INCI ingredient

Sodium Methyl Oleoyl Taurate

Sodium Methyl Oleoyl Taurate appears on 11 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 Methyl Oleoyl Taurate appears on 11 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: antistatic, cleansing, foaming, surfactant - cleansing

Products with Sodium Methyl Oleoyl Taurate

in 11 products

Showing 11 of 11 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antistatic
  • cleansing
  • foaming
  • surfactant - cleansing
  • antistatic: Preventing and/or reducing static electricity by neutralising electrical charge on surfaces.
  • 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).

CAS 137-20-2 / 7308-16-9 · EC 205-285-7 / 230-762-1

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.

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