Cosmetic ingredient dictionary
Sodium Chloride in cosmetics: what it is and what it does
Sodium Chloride is a cosmetic ingredient that makes the product thicker or thinner. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 4,862 products, most often shampoos.
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What does Sodium Chloride do in a product?
In a cosmetic product, Sodium Chloride makes the product thicker or thinner, hides an unwanted smell or taste and adds volume to a powder. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: viscosity controlling, masking, bulking and oral care.
What other names and numbers does Sodium Chloride have?
- CAS number
- 7647-14-5
- EC number
- 231-598-3
- CosIng reference
- 37813
Which products contain Sodium Chloride?
Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Chloride in the ingredient lists of 4,862 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often shampoos, bath and shower and shower gels.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,783 · Germany 636 · United States 484 · Australia 300.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Chloride 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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