What is Coconut Acid?
Cleansing
Coconut Acid is a cleansing ingredient that lifts away oil and grime.
This ingredient is listed in CosIng, the EU's cosmetic ingredient database. CosIng lists what it's used for as: Cleansing, Skin conditioning, emollient, Surfactant, emulsifying, Surfactant, cleansing.
CosIng function classes are the EU's standard list of the jobs an ingredient does inside a product, such as moisturizing, emulsifying, or preserving.
Anything to watch out for?
Some products' ingredient lists mark this ingredient as below. If a mark's reason fits your skin, it is the ingredient to weigh in those products.
- This is a fungal-acne trigger, one of the ingredients people with fungal acne avoid.
- Marked this way on 21 products.
- This ingredient is on pore-clogging ingredient lists, which matters most for skin that breaks out easily.
- Marked this way on 9 products.
Each mark comes from matching the product's full ingredient list against lists for fragrance, labeled fragrance allergens, drying alcohols, essential oils, fungal acne, pore clogging, and pregnancy caution.
Which products feature it?
One of the 2320 products we've checked features this as a key ingredient.
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Key: Coconut Acid (#4 on the ingredient list), Zea Mays (Corn) Starch, Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate
4 claims, summarized
- Only partly backed:
- a smoother skin texture
- Don't count on:
- a brighter skin tone
See each claim
claims, checked
Product features: low irritation
plausible, not testedProduct features: exfoliation management
partly backedA powder-type cleanser gentle enough even for babies
overstatedProduct features: brightening
no supporting source found
