Sodiumlauryl Sulfate
Also listed as: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
Sodiumlauryl Sulfate appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.
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
Sodiumlauryl Sulfate appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in sunscreens.
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, denaturant, foaming, surfactant - cleansing
Products with Sodiumlauryl Sulfate
in 2 products
Showing 2 of 2 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.
In the EU ingredient database
- cleansing
- denaturant
- foaming
- surfactant - cleansing
- cleansing: Helping to keep the body surface clean.
- denaturant: Rendering cosmetics unpalatable. Mostly added to cosmetics containing ethyl alcohol to make it unsuitable for ingestion.
- 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 151-21-3/ 68585-47-7 (generic)/ 68955-19-1 (generic)/ 73296-89-6/ 85586-07-8 · EC 205-788-1/ -/ -/277-362-3/ -
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.