Potassium Laurate
What Potassium Laurate is & what it does
Potassium Laurate is the potassium salt of lauric acid, a soap formed when the fatty acid is neutralized with potassium hydroxide. It is commonly used as a surfactant and cleansing agent, producing a generous lather in foaming cleansers and soaps. It can also help emulsify a formula, and it carries no flagged concerns in this catalog.
What is Potassium Laurate?
Potassium Laurate is the potassium salt of lauric acid, a soap formed when the fatty acid is neutralized with potassium hydroxide.
What does Potassium Laurate do in a cleanser?
It works as a surfactant and cleansing agent, producing a rich lather in foaming cleansers and soaps, and it can also help emulsify a formula.
Is Potassium Laurate safe?
It is generally considered safe as used in rinse-off cosmetics and has no flagged concerns in this catalog. Like most soaps it can feel drying if a formula is heavily based on it.
Sunscreens with Potassium Laurate
We rate 4 sunscreens that contain it:
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Lirene Sun Face Cream-Gel SPF 30
91/100
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Lirene Oh, Just Peachy! Light Moisturizing Cream SPF 30
91/100
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Lirene Cream-Gel, SPF 30 For Face, Under Makeup
79/100
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Popique Protect Me Lightweight Sunscreen Lotion SPF 50+ Pa++++
72/100