Soap made from sweet almond oil, used as a cleansing and emulsifying ingredient.
What it is
Sodium sweet almondate is the sodium salt of the fatty acids of sweet almond oil (Prunus amygdalus dulcis), in other words a soap obtained by saponifying almond oil. CosIng lists it as a cleansing agent and emulsifying surfactant.
Where it is used
Found mainly in bar soaps and some 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.
The INCI name does not show how much unsaponified oil remains in the finished soap.
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.
EU regulation
This ingredient is not listed in the annexes of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 in the CosIng data.
Products with this ingredient (13)
- Ogórek – naturalne mydło peelingujące · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Rozmaryn – mydło naturalne · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Ryż – naturalne mydło hipoalergiczne · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Nagietek – naturalne mydło hipoalergiczne · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Lawenda – mydło naturalne · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Kawa – naturalne mydło peelingujące · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Hibiskus – mydło naturalne · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Czerwony Pieprz – mydło naturalne · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Cynamon – naturalne mydło peelingujące · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Banan – mydło naturalne · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Ananas – mydło naturalne · Ministerstwo Dobrego Mydła
- Original Gangsta Cold Process Cleansing Bar · Hank Brussels