Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Lauramine Oxide in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Lauramine Oxide is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 13 products, most often dishwashing liquid.
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What does Lauramine Oxide do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Lauramine Oxide lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, cleans the skin, hair or teeth, and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant, cleansing, hair conditioning, viscosity controlling, perfuming, antistatic, foam boosting and hydrotrope.
What other names and numbers does Lauramine Oxide have?
- CAS number
- 1643-20-5
- EC number
- 216-700-6
- CosIng reference
- 78481
Which products contain Lauramine Oxide?
Open Beauty Facts finds Lauramine Oxide in the ingredient lists of 13 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often dishwashing liquid, soaps and body care.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 7 · France 2 · Morocco 1 · Spain 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Lauramine Oxide turns up, not how much of the market it is.
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Sources
The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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