Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Sodium Lactate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Sodium Lactate is a cosmetic ingredient that holds water in the skin or the product. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 435 products, most often bath and shower.
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What does Sodium Lactate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Sodium Lactate holds water in the skin or the product, keeps the product's acidity steady and loosens dead skin cells. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: humectant, buffering and keratolytic.
What other names and numbers does Sodium Lactate have?
- CAS number
- 72-17-3, 867-56-1
- EC number
- 200-772-0, 212-762-3
- CosIng reference
- 79577
Which products contain Sodium Lactate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Lactate in the ingredient lists of 435 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often bath and shower, shower gels and soaps.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 123 · France 94 · Spain 48 · United States 39.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Lactate 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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