Soap made from palm oil.
What it is
Sodium palmate is the sodium salt of palm oil fatty acids – in other words, soap. It cleanses and gives bar soaps hardness.
Where it is used
Bar soaps and solid cleansers.
Limits of interpretation
The INCI list shows which ingredients are present, not how much of each. Above 1%, ingredients are listed in descending order of weight; below 1% the order is free.
Soap is alkaline; how drying a bar feels depends on the whole formula.
Functions
- Cleansing
- Helping to keep the body surface clean.
- Surfactant – emulsifying
- Helping suspensions or dispersions of liquids in a second liquid by reducing the surface tension of the substances to be emulsified.
- Surfactant – cleansing
- Wetting body surfaces, emulsifying or solubilizing oils, and suspending soil (generally, such ingredients contribute to the foaming and lathering properties of cleansing products).
- Viscosity controlling
- Increasing or decreasing the viscosity (thickness) of cosmetics.
EU regulation
This ingredient is not listed in the annexes of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 in the CosIng data.
Products with this ingredient (143)
- Original Beauty Cream Bar · Dove
- Shea Butter Beauty Cream Bar · Dove
- Cucumber Beauty Cream Bar · Dove
- Sensitive Beauty Cream Bar · Dove
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