Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 118 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate appears in 118 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 118
- catalogued products
- #2,800
- usage rank of 247,206
- 45
- named brands represented
- 64%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,800 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,800
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 20 others that also appear in exactly 118 products, listed in more products than 98.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 64%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 118 products listing it (mean slot 16.7). Sodium Lauryl Sulfate usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 46 of 118 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Angel cake mix; Angel Food; Angel Food to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Sodium Lauryl Sulfate itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
46 of 118 linked records have some flagged component
All 112 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
What else is usually in the same product as Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
Across the 118 products on this site that list Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 7.3x more often with Sodium Lauryl Sulfate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Sodium Lauryl Sulfate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 18 | 15.3% | 2.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 11 | 9.3% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 11 | 9.3% | 4.2% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 9 | 7.6% | 1.4% |
| Carrageenan | 8 | 6.8% | 4.5% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
Function
EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
Products Containing Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 118 indexed products containing Sodium Lauryl Sulfate:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Calcium Stearoyl-2-lactylate”)
High-volume peers for Sodium Lauryl Sulfate: 118 products, mean screening score 87.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Calcium Stearoyl-2-lactylate · Chipotle Puree · Coffee Powder. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Sodium Lauryl Sulfate evidence
Start from Sodium Lauryl Sulfate's 118 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Sodium Lauryl Sulfate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Sodium Lauryl Sulfate carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. Sodium Lauryl Sulfate itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Sodium Lauryl Sulfate? ▼
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,800 of 247,206), appearing in 118 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Sodium Lauryl Sulfate do in food? ▼
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, surface-active agent in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.