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Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate
Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate
A strong-foaming cleanser common in body washes. It lifts away oil and dirt and cleans more strongly than amino-acid cleansers.
What it does
The EU’s ingredient database lists it as a cleanser (helps keep skin clean).European Commission, CosIng (© European Union, CC BY 4.0) · uses put in plain words by Drop ↗
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (1998) judged sodium alpha-olefin sulfonates, sodium C14–16 olefin sulfonate among them, safe in rinse-off products. Because of irritation, they set a 2% cap in products left on skin. They also capped sultones, impurities that cause skin allergy at very low levels: no more than 10 parts per million of one kind, and 1 of another. Looking again in 2023, they kept that verdict and its conditions.Cosmetic 1998 · Cosmetic Ingredient Review ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
Also known as
AOS
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