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Sodium Methyl Lauroyl Taurate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Methyl Lauroyl Taurate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 31 products, most often body washes.

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What does Sodium Methyl Lauroyl Taurate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Methyl Lauroyl Taurate lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, cleans the skin, hair or teeth, and makes foam. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant, cleansing and foaming.

surfactantcleansingfoaming

What other names and numbers does Sodium Methyl Lauroyl Taurate have?

CAS number
4337-75-1
EC number
224-388-8
CosIng reference
37962

Which products contain Sodium Methyl Lauroyl Taurate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Methyl Lauroyl Taurate in the ingredient lists of 31 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body washes, shower gels and baby wash.

  • Body washes4
  • Shower gels3
  • Baby wash2
  • Bath and shower1
  • Body care1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 9 · United States 8 · Netherlands 7 · Canada 2.

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