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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

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

Sodium Laurate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 57 products, most often soaps.

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What does Sodium Laurate do in a product?

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

surfactantcleansingemulsifying

What other names and numbers does Sodium Laurate have?

CAS number
629-25-4
EC number
211-082-4
CosIng reference
79582

Which products contain Sodium Laurate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Laurate in the ingredient lists of 57 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often soaps, bath and shower and shower gels.

  • Soaps16
  • Bath and shower7
  • Shower gels7

Products with it, by country of sale: France 16 · United States 10 · Argentina 5 · Germany 5.

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

On these listsSurfactants and cleansersEmulsifiers

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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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