Soap: which products have coconut?

7 products checked, label in hand

• 3✓ No coconut listed
• 1! Can’t be verified
• 3✕ Contains coconut

Bar soap is made by reacting a fat with lye, and the ingredient list often names the fat it started from: sodium cocoate is coconut, sodium palmate is palm, sodium palm kernelate is palm kernel, sodium olivate is olive. That makes soap one of the few places where the label itself can settle the question.

The coconut names that turn up most

Counted across the 7 products on this page.

• Coconut, cocos nuciferain 3 of 7
• Glycerin / glycerolin 3 of 7
• Caprylic/capric triglyceridein 1 of 7
• Cetearyl / cetyl / stearyl alcohol (and ceteareth-, steareth-, -trimonium, -dimonium)in 1 of 7
• Stearic acidin 1 of 7
• Laurate (sorbitan laurate, PEG laurate…)in 1 of 7

Every product we checked

Worth reading

• Soap without coconut: how to read a bar, a body wash and a hand soapA bar of soap tells you what fat it was made from
• How to read a label for coconutSpot coconut in about a minute, in English or Spanish

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Always read the label on the product in your hand: formulas change. Educational only, not medical advice. Always confirm with your allergist.