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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

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

Sodium Isethionate is a cosmetic ingredient that cleans the skin, hair or teeth. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 145 products, most often shower gels.

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What does Sodium Isethionate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Isethionate cleans the skin, hair or teeth, keeps the skin in good condition and makes hair easier to comb, softer or shinier. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: cleansing, skin conditioning, hair conditioning and antistatic.

cleansingskin conditioninghair conditioningantistatic

What other names and numbers does Sodium Isethionate have?

CAS number
1562-00-1
EC number
216-343-6
CosIng reference
37896

Which products contain Sodium Isethionate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Isethionate in the ingredient lists of 145 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shower gels, bath and shower and shampoos.

  • Shower gels16
  • Bath and shower15
  • Shampoos7

Products with it, by country of sale: France 56 · United States 28 · Netherlands 14 · Germany 11.

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