LAURYL GLUCOSIDE

Synonyms:
Dodecyl glucoside; Lauryl polyglucoside; Dodecyl β-D-glucopyranoside; (2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-dodecoxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydropyran-3,4,5-triol ; 59122-55-3; Dodecyl glucoside; Dodecyl b-D-glucopyranoside; Dodecyl beta-D-glucopyranoside; n-DODECYL-beta-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE; lauryl glucoside; C18H36O6; Dodecyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside; EINECS 261-614-4; SCHEMBL60522; Dodecyl-|A-D-glucopyranoside; n-dodecyl-b-D-glucopyranoside; n-Dodecyl ?-D-glucopyranoside; CHEMBL4068837; n-Dodecyl beta-D-glucopyranoside; 1-dodecyl beta-D-glucopyranoside; DTXSID40891954; n-Dodecyl-I(2)-D-glucopyranoside; KM0284; MFCD00063298; ZINC95713698; AKOS015919432; AS-60935; Dodecyl b-D-glucopyranoside 59122-55-3; W0538; n-Dodecyl beta-D-glucopyranoside, >=98% (GC); 618D220; Q2614811; UNII-76LN7P7UCU component PYIDGJJWBIBVIA-UYTYNIKBSA-N; UNII-ICS790225B component PYIDGJJWBIBVIA-UYTYNIKBSA-N; UNII-K67N5Z1RUA component PYIDGJJWBIBVIA-UYTYNIKBSA-N; (2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-(dodecyloxy)-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol; lauril glikozit; loril glikozit; lauril glikosit; loril glikosit: lauril glykozit; loril gliykozit; LAURYL GLUCOSIDE 
 

LAURYL GLUCOSIDE
Lauryl glucoside

Lauryl glucoside is a surfactant used in cosmetics and laundry detergents. It is a glycoside produced from glucose and lauryl alcohol.

Lauryl glucoside[1]
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Names
IUPAC name
(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-dodecoxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydropyran-3,4,5-triol
Systematic IUPAC name
Dodecyl β-D-glucopyranoside
Other names
Dodecyl glucoside, Lauryl polyglucoside
Identifiers
CAS Number    
59122-55-3 
3D model (JSmol)    
Interactive image
ChemSpider    
84249 ☒
ECHA InfoCard    100.055.995 
EC Number    
261-614-4
PubChem CID    
93321
CompTox Dashboard (EPA)    
DTXSID40891954 
InChI[show]
SMILES[show]
Properties
Chemical formula    C18H36O6
Molar mass    348.48 g/mol
Hazards
R-phrases (outdated)    R36/37/38
S-phrases (outdated)    S26 S36

Lauryl glucoside
Learn all about lauryl glucoside, including how it's made, and why Puracy uses lauryl glucoside in our products.

Derived from: coconut
Pronunciation: (ˈlȯr-əl ˈglü-kə-ˌsīd)
Type: Naturally-derived
What Is Lauryl glucoside?
Lauryl glucoside is a viscous yellow substance derived from palm kernel oil, corn sugar, or coconut.[1] The ingredient is also a type of alkyl glucoside, which is a substance formed by mixing alcohols and sugar or glucose.[2]

What Does Lauryl glucoside Do in Our products?
Lauryl glucoside is a surfactant, meaning it breaks surface tension in liquids, allowing things to become clean. It can be found in hundreds of personal care products, including shampoo, facial cleansers, body wash, sunscreen, bubble bath, and a variety of other products.[3]

Why Puracy Uses Lauryl glucoside
We use lauryl glucoside as a surfactant and cleanser. The Cosmetics Ingredient Review has deemed the ingredient safe for use in cosmetic products, and Whole Foods has deemed the ingredient acceptable in its body care quality standards.[7,8] Also, research shows the ingredient is typically not a skin irritant.[9,10]

How Lauryl glucoside Is Made
Commercial production of lauryl glucoside and other alkyl polyglucosides generally starts by mixing palm, corn, or coconut alcohol with some kind of sugar, glucose, or glucose polymer under acidic conditions.[4,5] Alkyl glucoside production first began in 1893 by reacting glucose with anhydrous ethanol to produce ethyl glucoside.[6]

Details about Lauryl Glucoside
A 100% vegetable origin, biodegradable, mild cleansing agent that gives moderate to high amount of foam. It's happy to work together with other surfactants (in general, that helps to create milder formulas). 

Lauryl glucoside adds high foaming capacity to your foaming product

When combined with other glucosides helps increase foaming and cleansing richness

Lauryl glucoside adds high foaming capacity to your foaming product, if you want more foam in your product add Lauryl glucoside
Indulgent High Foam
Lauryl glucoside is an non-ionic surfactant that can be used as a foaming agent, conditioner or emulsifier.

Lauryl glucoside has the best foaming capacity of the glucosides and good dermatological compatibility. Therefore it is suitable for use as a base surfactant or a co-surfactant in cosmetic surfactant cleansing preparations.

We recommend adding 5% Lauryl glucoside to your glucoside based surfactant formulation to boost foam.

Lauryl glucoside aids the viscosity build up of your final product.

Characteristics of Lauryl glucoside
Lauryl glucoside creates an excellent and stable foam. Lauryl glucoside is useful in hair care products where it aids hair cleaning abilities without stripping the hair.

Lauryl glucoside can be used alongside other glucosides to enhance the foam and skin conditioning properties. Lauryl glucoside is very effective when used in ionic formulations to add foam depth and emulsifying properties.

Lauryl glucoside is very useful for Bath Foams, Shower Gel and Shampoo where you wish to increase the foaming ability of the product without a decrease in the natural formulation.

Lauryl glucoside is biodegradable.

The Technical Information for Lauryl glucoside

Cas Number: 110615-47-9

Origin: Fruit Sugars

For more technical information on Lauryl glucoside, please scroll down to the technical tab below

How to use Lauryl Glucoside
Blend with other surfactants to produce a foaming product with skin cleansing abilities. Works excellently blended with Cocamidopropyl betaine.

Recommended Usage Level

10% - 20% (Face Wash)
15% - 30% (Shower Gel / Bath Foam / Shampoo)

Maximum Usage Level

40%

Precautions when using Lauryl glucoside
At pure usage levels it can cause irritation to the skin.

When blending always take the following precautions:

Use gloves (disposable are ideal)
Take care when handling hot oils
Wear eye protection
Work in a well ventilated room
Keep ingredients and hot oils away from children
If ingested, seek immediate medical advice
If contact made with eyes, rinse immediately with clean warm water and seek medical advice if in any doubt.
Safety First

In addition to our precautions and general safety information, we always recommend keeping a first aid kit nearby. You are working with hot water and oils, accidents can happen, so always be prepared!

What Is Lauryl Glucoside?
Let's start with the basics. Lauryl glucoside is a type of surfactant (cleansing agent) that works to reduce liquid-based products' viscosity, making it easier to apply and rinse it off.

It's a natural origin, a biodegradable and mild . It creates a moderate amount of foaming bubbles that we commonly see in various skincare and household products, but not as much as chemical-based soaps.

It's common to find not just lauryl glucoside in the list of ingredients of the cleansing products but also the other two glucoside derivative - decyl glucoside and coco glucoside. Those two are also good surfactant ingredients derived from corn and coconut, respectively.

The difference between these three is their stability and foaming properties, with lauryl glucoside has the slowest and the best foaming effect compared to the rest and certainly more stable, followed by coco glucoside and decyl glucoside. 

What Is Lauryl Glucoside Made Of?
Lauryl glucoside is made by combining sugar (usually comes from corn) with fatty alcohol (which comes from fat, which could be animal, vegetable, or petrochemical).

As for now, most of the fatty alcohol is derived from palm, so if you are "palm conscious" and looking for sustainable products, you must be aware of this and look for the brands that using coconut oil instead.

It is found that lauryl glucoside that derives fatty alcohol from coconut oil makes a stable foam and perfect for skincare products compared to other combinations.

(MetaPora cleansers are made with lauryl glucoside derived from sugar and coconut only. They are safe to use and sustainable for the environment. See more details here.)

Does Lauryl Glucoside Natural Ingredient?
This is a very important question to ask, but not always easy to answer. And this is mainly because every manufacturer produces a glucoside using slightly different chemistry.

It's is safe to say that lauryl glucoside is a natural ingredient. Since at least half of it's composition is natural (the sugar one). But the other half, fatty alcohol - might be derived from petrochemicals. Therefore it can be named "100% naturally-derived" only if used fatty alcohol derived from coconut oil or any other vegetable oil.

So, the bottom line, if you after a 100% plant-based product, look for remark on the ingredients label what the lauryl glucoside was derived from. (If there are no remarks, probable petrochemical were used, since it's a cheaper option).

In What Products It Mainly Used?
So being a surfactant, you can expect lauryl glucoside commonly found in products meant for cleansing.

It is widely used for skincare, makeup, and household products thanks to it’s foaming features and the ability to make the whole product spread out more easily as well as to rinse it out, taking away debris along with it.

Without it, you probably spend quite a time to spread out the product evenly onto the skin; think shampoo, for example. 

Is Lauryl Glucoside Safe For Skin?
It is considered lauryl glucoside safe for the skin, and very low risk of irritation. Although, because of different chemistry used in the manufacturing process, products with lauryl glucoside may all work the same but vary in ‘mildness.’

This feature is the most notable when comparing it with similar surfactants like SLS, known for being harsh to the skin. 

Does Lauryl Glucoside Safe For Sensitive Skin?
Yes, we probably can say the ingredient is safe for sensitive skin. In fact, lauryl glucoside is listed on the Safe Cosmetics Database and the GoodGuide database as being safe for the skin sensitive and the rest of the skin types.

Plus, the ingredient is also approved to use in certified organic cosmetics by both the Organic Food Federation and EcoCert.

Can Lauryl Glucoside Cause Allergy?
Yes, we probably can say the ingredient is safe for sensitive skin. In fact, lauryl glucoside is listed on the Safe Cosmetics Database and the GoodGuide database as being safe for the skin sensitive and the rest of the skin types.

Plus, the ingredient is also approved to use in certified organic cosmetics by both the Organic Food Federation and EcoCert.
Surfactant of plant origin, very mild, ideal in formulas for sensitive skins and children. Solid, sticky white paste.

Description : Surfactant of plant origin consisting of lauryl glucoside (50 to 60%) and water (40 to 50%). Thick, pasty and turbid liquid, lightly yellow and odorless, obtained from fatty alcohols derived from coconut oil and corn glucose. Keep at room temperature away from moisture and light. Close the bottle properly after each use.

INCI: Lauryl glucoside

Properties: Surfactant, mild detergent, viscosing agent, biodegradable, water soluble. As it lightly foams, it is recommended to use it with other foaming surfactants such as babassu, cocobetaine, coco glucoside or polyglucose. Excellent for thickening formulas.

Use: Use 2 to 35% of the total weight of your recipe. Lightly heat the thick foaming base to liquefy it before mixing it with the aqueous phase. Adjust the pH if necessary using lactic acid or citric acid (measure pH using pH papers, add an acidifier product in small quantities, test again and then add the acidifier product as needed).

Applications: Shower gels, liquid soaps, shampoo, bubble baths, facial cleansing gels, hand sanitizers, personal hygiene products, cleansing gels for babies.

Caution: As its pH is basic, it is recommended to test the pH of your products and adjust it if necessary. Do not apply pure on the skin, avoid contact with the eyes, do not swallow.