| Vegan? Maybe | Vegetarian? Maybe |
Classifications are made based on the available commercial supply of the ingredient, and are made based on the criteria on our classifications page.
Commercially available sodium methyl 2-sulfolaurate may be vegan depending on the source and may be vegetarian depending on the source.
Sodium methyl 2-sulfolaurate is most likely manufactured from lauric acid. According to the document "Safety Assessment of Fatty Acids & Fatty Acid Salts as Used in Cosmetics", lauric acid is "produced by the hydrolysis... of animal or vegetable fats", which means it is most likely vegan, but may not be.
Sources
- https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Sodium-Methyl-2-Sulfolaurate
- Fiume, M. M., Bergfeld, W. F., Belsito, D. V., Hill, R. A., Klaassen, C. D., Liebler, D. C., Marks, J. G., Shank, R. C., Slaga, T. J., Snyder, P. W., Gill, L. J., & Heldreth, B. (2021). Amended Safety Assessment of Fatty Acyl Sarcosines and Sarcosinate Salts as Used in Cosmetics. International Journal of Toxicology, 40(2_suppl), 117S–133S.
https://doi.org/10.1177/10915818211023881