Database/Bulking/Sodium Chloride
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Sodium Chloride natural?

Yes. Common salt, mined or evaporated from brine or seawater; both ions are mineral in origin.

INCI nameSodium Chloride
CAS7647-14-5
FormulaClNa · 58.44 Da
FunctionBulking · Fragrance
FeedstockObtained by mining rock salt or evaporating seawater…

How we scored it

Single ionic compound; sodium and chloride are both mineral-origin ions under ISO 16128; no petrochemical fragment.
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

Obtained by mining rock salt or evaporating seawater or brine. No alternative synthetic route is used.

In plain English

Ordinary table salt, used to thicken washes and shampoos or as a mild abrasive. It comes from mined rock salt or evaporated seawater.

Structure

2D structure of Sodium Chloride

sodium chloride

PubChem CID 5234 ↗

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 Chloride. PubChem CID 5234. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
  3. 3SODIUM CHLORIDE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  4. 4SODIUM CHLORIDE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SODIUM%20CHLORIDE