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INCI ingredient

Sodiumbenzoate

Also listed as: Sodium Benzoate

Sodiumbenzoate appears on 10 ingredient lists in our database, most often in deodorants.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originNot sureorigin not on file
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Sodiumbenzoate appears on 10 ingredient lists in our database, most often in deodorants.

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: anticorrosive, fragrance, preservative

Products with Sodiumbenzoate

in 10 products

Showing 10 of 10 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • anticorrosive
  • fragrance
  • preservative
  • anticorrosive: Preventing and or inhibiting the corrosion of the packaging material.
  • fragrance: Imparting an odour or taste. Creating a perceivable pleasant smell and/or masking a bad smell.
  • preservative: Exclusively or mainly intended to inhibit the development of micro-organisms in the cosmetic product. All authorised preservatives are substances in the positive list of Annex V to the Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.

CAS 532-32-1 · EC 208-534-8

EU regulation

Listed in Annex V (ref. 1) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, maximum concentration a) 2.5% (acid) b) 1.7% (acid) c) 0.5% (acid). a) Rinse-off products, except oral care products b) Oral care products c) Leave-on products V/1

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

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