Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

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

Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 271 products, most often shampoos.

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What does Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, and cleans the skin, hair or teeth. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant and cleansing.

surfactantcleansing

What other names and numbers does Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate have?

CAS number
68187-32-6
EC number
269-087-2
CosIng reference
37832

Which products contain Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate in the ingredient lists of 271 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, hair care and bath and shower.

  • Shampoos48
  • Hair care32
  • Bath and shower20
  • Shower gels20

Products with it, by country of sale: France 103 · Germany 58 · United States 47 · Italy 10.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate 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’.

  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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