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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sodium Laureth Sulfate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Laureth Sulfate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 2,942 products, most often shampoos.

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What does Sodium Laureth Sulfate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Laureth Sulfate 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, emulsifying and foaming.

surfactantcleansingemulsifyingfoaming

What other names and numbers does Sodium Laureth Sulfate have?

CAS number
3088-31-1, 9004-82-4, 68891-38-3, 1335-72-4, 68585-34-2, 91648-56-5
EC number
221-416-0, 500-234-8, 500-223-8, 293-918-8
CosIng reference
79583

Which products contain Sodium Laureth Sulfate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Laureth Sulfate in the ingredient lists of 2,942 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, bath and shower and shower gels.

  • Shampoos548
  • Bath and shower402
  • Shower gels388
  • Hair care315

Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,193 · Germany 391 · Spain 184 · United States 156.

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