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Sodium Isethionate
Sodium Isethionate
A cleansing agent that makes a soft, creamy lather and lifts away oil and dirt.
What it does
A cleansing agent often used to boost and soften a cleanser’s foam and to improve how it rinses off. It helps lift away oil and dirt with a creamy lather.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2017) judged 12 isethionate salts, which products use mostly to cleanse, safe as used in products made not to irritate. Sodium isethionate and sodium lauroyl methyl isethionate are named in their conclusion. In rabbits sodium isethionate didn’t irritate skin or eyes, and in a mouse test at up to 50% it caused no allergy. They noted that most cleansing ingredients irritate somewhat.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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