Database/Cleansing Surfactant/Sodium Babassuamphoacetate
Mostly natural · ISO 16128

Is Sodium Babassuamphoacetate natural?

Mostly. Babassu oil (lauric-acid rich, like coconut) supplies the fatty chain; the amphoacetate head comes from petrochemical aminoethylethanolamine and chloroacetate.

INCI nameSodium Babassuamphoacetate
CAS515861-22-0
FunctionCleansing Surfactant
FeedstockBabassu oil fatty acids, similar in profile to…

How we scored it

No formula given; by analogy to amphoacetate class: babassu lauroyl (natural) ~183 Da vs AEEA+chloroacetate backbone (petrochemical) ~155 Da -> ~0.54.
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.

Where it comes from

Babassu oil fatty acids, similar in profile to coconut oil, are amidated with petrochemical aminoethylethanolamine (AEEA) then reacted with sodium chloroacetate to form the amphoacetate. This mirrors the standard cocoamphoacetate route.

In plain English

A gentle cleansing surfactant made from babassu oil, a natural palm-like oil, combined with petrochemical amine and acetate groups, neutralized with sodium.

CosIng definition: Amides, babassu-oil, N-[2-[N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-N-(carboxymethyl)amino]ethyl]-, sodium salt

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References

  1. 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
  2. 2SODIUM BABASSUAMPHOACETATE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  3. 3SODIUM BABASSUAMPHOACETATE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SODIUM%20BABASSUAMPHOACETATE