Cosmetic roles
Mixes and holds oil and water togetherSURFACTANT - EMULSIFYING
Safety & regulatory references
Reviewed by CIR: Safety Assessment of Alkanoyl Lactyl Lactate Salts as Used in Cosmetics
More data — names, identifiers, properties, test records, literature
Official labels & definitions
JCIA labelling name カプロイルラクチレートＮａ: 本品は、カプリン酸（＊）と、乳酸（＊）の２量体のエステルのナトリウム塩であり、次の化学式で表される。
Source: JCIA labelling names (Japan)
Names & identifiers
SODIUM CAPROYL LACTYLATEINCI소듐카프로일락틸레이트Korean label name (MFDS standard)カプロイルラクチレートＮａJapanese labelling name
- CAS No.chemical registry number
- 29051-57-8
- CAS No.chemical registry number
- 42566-88-1
- DTXSIDUS EPA chemical ID
- DTXSID901021973
- DTXCIDUS EPA compound ID
- DTXCID601506972
- IUPAC
- Sodium 2-(decanoyloxy)propanoate
- Molecular formula
- C13H23NaO4
- Molecular weight
- 266.313 g/mol
What products actually use it for
What the 3 products reported to the US EPA with this ingredient use it for. Products outside cosmetics are included, so the top few rows are its main uses.
- Emulsifier2
- Surfactant (surface active agent)1
Source: US EPA CompTox dashboard
Related literature
Linked databases 10
- China inventory of existing ingredients (IECIC)
- EU CosIng ingredient list 2
- JCIA labelling names (Japan)
- Korea Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary
- MFDS (Korea) cosmetic ingredient register 2
- PubMed
- UniChem cross-reference IDs
- US Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) 2
- US EPA CompTox dashboard 2
- US EPA DSSTox chemical database