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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sodium Cocoyl Alaninate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Cocoyl Alaninate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 6 products, most often 2-in-1 shampoos.

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What does Sodium Cocoyl Alaninate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Cocoyl Alaninate lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant and hair conditioning.

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What other names and numbers does Sodium Cocoyl Alaninate have?

CAS number
90170-45-9
EC number
290-478-9
CosIng reference
83446

Which products contain Sodium Cocoyl Alaninate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Cocoyl Alaninate in the ingredient lists of 6 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often 2-in-1 shampoos, shampoo and shower gels and soaps.

  • 2-in-1 shampoos1
  • Shampoo and shower gels1
  • Soaps1
  • Liquid soaps1
  • Skincare1

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 3 · France 1 · Germany 1 · Austria 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Cocoyl Alaninate turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsSurfactants and cleansers

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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’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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