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Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate
Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate · Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate
A cleanser made from coconut and an amino acid. It lifts oil and dirt with a soft lather.
What it does
A cleansing agent made from coconut fatty acids and glutamic acid, an amino acid. It lifts away oil and dirt with a soft lather, and it’s common in cleansers sold as low-stripping.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2017) looked at 115 ingredients made from amino acids, which condition skin and hair or cleanse. Their index or their list names this one among them. The skin irritation and allergy tests they relied on were of the two used at the highest strengths, lauroyl lysine and sodium lauroyl glutamate. They judged the group safe as used, as long as the product is made not to irritate.Burnett 2017 · International Journal of Toxicology ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
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