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INCI ingredient

Zinc Laurate

Zinc Laurate appears on 5 ingredient lists in our database, most often in bar soaps.

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

Zinc Laurate appears on 5 ingredient lists in our database, most often in bar soaps.

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: anticaking, opacifying, viscosity controlling

Products with Zinc Laurate

in 5 products

Showing 5 of 5 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • anticaking
  • opacifying
  • viscosity controlling
  • anticaking: Preventing agglomeration of particulate solids into lumps or hard masses (cohesive cake), thus allowing free flow of particles.
  • opacifying: Reducing transparency or translucency of cosmetics.
  • viscosity controlling: Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.

CAS 2452-01-9 · EC 219-518-5

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.

Classification from the INCI name; product lists from Open Beauty Facts.Report a mistake