Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Sodium Anisate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Sodium Anisate is a cosmetic ingredient that slows the growth of microbes on the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 98 products, most often body creams.
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What does Sodium Anisate do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Sodium Anisate slows the growth of microbes on the skin and adds taste. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antimicrobial and flavouring.
What other names and numbers does Sodium Anisate have?
- CAS number
- 536-45-8
- EC number
- 208-634-1
- CosIng reference
- 82817
Which products contain Sodium Anisate?
Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Anisate in the ingredient lists of 98 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often body creams, facial creams and hand creams.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 30 · Germany 26 · United Kingdom 8 · Netherlands 6.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Anisate turns up, not how much of the market it is.
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Sources
The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.
- European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
- Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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