Sodium lauroyl methyl isethionate

Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate or SLMI is a mild anionic surfactant derived from coconut, which does not contain sulfate. Unlike SCI (Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate) which creates opaque products, SLMI has excellent water solubility, and therefore allows for the creation of transparent, sulfate-free shampoo formulations. It is often used in conjunction with CAPB.
SLMI is produced by ethoxylation, which makes it an environmentally unfriendly ingredient. It is prohibited in the COSMOS specifications.

For users, it is the possible traces of ethylene oxide and 1,4 dioxane, these two ingredients are carcinogenic, teratogenic, irritant and mutagenic, which pose a problem.

These functions:

• Cleaning agent: Helps keep a surface clean
• Surfactant: Reduces the surface tension of cosmetics and contributes to the even distribution of the product during use

The manufacture of SLMI (sodium lauroyl methyl isethionate) requires carboxylic acid which is naturally present in coconut  but also sodium 2-methyl-2-hydroxyethanesulfonate and sodium 1-methyl-2-. Both of these ingredients are produced using propylene or butylene oxide with sodium bisulfite.

• Propylene oxide is produced from propylene (itself derived from ethylene or propene which are hydrocarbons) either by hydrochlorination or by co-oxidation of ethylbenzene and isobutane. There are two other less common production methods. Co-oxidation of cumene hydroperoxide and isobutane and Hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide (HPPO) which uses oxygen peroxide to oxidize propylene.
• •Butylene oxide is produced during the oxidation of 1-butene. The latter comes from the refining of petroleum (more precisely from C4 gases or by dimerization of ethylene

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