Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Trisodium Sulfosuccinate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Trisodium Sulfosuccinate is a cosmetic ingredient that lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 7 products, most often bath and shower.

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What does Trisodium Sulfosuccinate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Trisodium Sulfosuccinate lets oil and water mix, so the product can wash dirt away, keeps the product's acidity steady, and binds metals in water so the product stays stable. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: surfactant, buffering, chelating and hydrotrope.

surfactantbufferingchelatinghydrotrope

What other names and numbers does Trisodium Sulfosuccinate have?

CAS number
13419-59-5
EC number
236-524-3
CosIng reference
59895

Which products contain Trisodium Sulfosuccinate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Trisodium Sulfosuccinate in the ingredient lists of 7 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often bath and shower and shower gels.

  • Bath and shower2
  • Shower gels2

Products with it, by country of sale: France 3 · United Kingdom 3 · United States 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Trisodium Sulfosuccinate 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’.

  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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