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Sodium Shea Butterate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Shea Butterate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 37 products, most often soaps.

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What does Sodium Shea Butterate do in a product?

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

surfactantcleansing

What is Sodium Shea Butterate?

Sodium Shea Butterate is the sodium salt of the fatty acids derived from Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter.

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Which products contain Sodium Shea Butterate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Shea Butterate in the ingredient lists of 37 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often soaps, shaving soaps and body care.

  • Soaps26
  • Shaving soaps3
  • Body care2

Products with it, by country of sale: France 26 · Germany 2 · United States 2 · Norway 2.

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