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Cosmetic ingredient dictionary

Sodium Usnate in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Sodium Usnate is a cosmetic ingredient that slows the growth of microbes on the skin. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 5 products, most often face care.

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What does Sodium Usnate do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Sodium Usnate slows the growth of microbes on the skin, and helps control oily skin and scalp. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antimicrobial and antiseborrhoeic.

antimicrobialantiseborrhoeic

What other names and numbers does Sodium Usnate have?

CAS number
39012-86-7, 34769-44-3
EC number
254-248-1, 252-204-6
CosIng reference
80235

Which products contain Sodium Usnate?

Open Beauty Facts finds Sodium Usnate in the ingredient lists of 5 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often face care, face masks and deodorants.

  • Face care1
  • Face masks1
  • Deodorants1
  • Roll-on deodorants1
  • Toothpastes1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 4 · Italy 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Sodium Usnate 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’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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