INCI ingredient

Sodium Myreth Sulfate

Sodium Myreth Sulfate appears on 30 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

What it triggers

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

Sodium Myreth Sulfate appears on 30 ingredient lists in our database, most often in shower gels.

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, surfactant - emulsifying, foaming, surfactant - cleansing

in 30 products

Showing 24 of 30 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

Functions listed by CosIng

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.
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 25446-80-4 · EC 246-986-8

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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