Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Sodium Bicarbonate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Sodium Bicarbonate is a cosmetic ingredient that scrubs or polishes. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 315 products, most often toothpastes.
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What does Sodium Bicarbonate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Sodium Bicarbonate scrubs or polishes, keeps the product's acidity steady and reduces body odour. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: abrasive, buffering, deodorant, oral care and skin protecting.
What other names and numbers does Sodium Bicarbonate have?
- CAS number
- 144-55-8
- EC number
- 205-633-8
- CosIng reference
- 37736
Which products contain Sodium Bicarbonate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Bicarbonate in the ingredient lists of 315 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes and deodorants.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 104 · United States 62 · Germany 37 · United Kingdom 16.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Bicarbonate 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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