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

Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 255 products, most often shampoos.

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What does Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate 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 and hair conditioning.

surfactantcleansinghair conditioning

What other names and numbers does Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate have?

CAS number
61789-32-0, 58969-27-0
EC number
263-052-5
CosIng reference
79383

Which products contain Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate in the ingredient lists of 255 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, hair care and soaps.

  • Shampoos32
  • Hair care18
  • Soaps10

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 80 · France 51 · Australia 41 · Germany 37.

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