Coconut Acid

The Basics On Coconut Acid

What is Coconut Acid?

A natural mixture of fatty acid found in coconut oil primarily used as a cleansing agent.

What are other names for Coconut Acid?

ACIDS, COCONUT, COCO FATTY ACID, COCONUT ACID, COCONUT ACIDS, COCONUT FATTY ACID, COCONUT FATTY ACIDS, COCONUT OIL ACIDS, COCONUT OIL FATTY ACIDS, COCOS NUCIFERA (COCONUT) ACID, and FATTY ACIDS, COCO

What is Coconut Acid used for?

Coconut oil is highly moisturizing and considered safe to apply to skin, making it beneficial for treating abnormally dry skin. A 2013 study found that merely adding virgin coconut oil to an existing skin lotion resulted in an increase in both hydration and skin elasticity.

How Coconut Acid is classified

Cleansing Agents

Recommendations for using Coconut Acid during pregnancy and breastfeeding

Limited data suggests no known risk

 

Coconut Acid During Pregnancy

What we know about using Coconut Acid while pregnant or breastfeeding

Limited information available.

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General safety info about Coconut Acid from CIR

Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil is the cosmetic ingredient name for the oil pressed from the dried fruit of coconuts. Coconut Oil is often composed of 90% saturated triglycerides and low in nonglyceride impurities. Coconut Oil may function as a fragrance ingredient, hair conditioning agent, or skin-conditioning agent and is reported in 626 cosmetics at concentrations from 0.0001 to 70%. Cosmetic ingredients can consist of fatty acids derived from Coconut Oil, hydrogenated forms of these fatty acids, corresponding fatty alcohols, simple esters and inorganic salts, and sulfated salts, all of these fatty acids. While most Coconut Oil derivatives are skin conditioning agents, a wide variety of other cosmetic functions are described. Oral toxicity studies indicate Coconut Oil and Hydrogenated Coconut Oil are relatively nontoxic by ingestion, and as a single 5 g/kg dose to rats, neither compound caused deaths. Rats fed 25% Coconut Oil for 90 d had only slight fatty change of the liver. Hydrogenated Coconut Oil (15%) had no effect on the life span of mice. Hydrogenated Coconut Oil was nontoxic as a single 3 g/kg dermal dose, was nonirritating to the skin in single-insult occlusive patch tests in guinea pigs, and was not a sensitizer. Coconut Oil did not cause skin irritation in rabbits in a 24-h single-insult occlusive patch test. Undiluted Coconut Acid caused minimal irritation in rabbits when assayed in a 24-h single-insult occlusive patch test. Some studies suggested low eye irritation potential in Coconut Oil and Hydrogenated Coconut Oil. Coconut Oil significantly reduced the increase in prostate weight and prostate weight to body weight ratio related to benign prostatic hyperplasia induced by testosterone injections in rats. Clinical tests of bar soap containing Coconut Oil up to 13% resulted in no irritation to mild irritation, with neither phototoxicity nor photosensitivity. A tanning butter containing 2.5% Coconut Oil did not cause reactions in a 6-wk repeat insult predictive patch test. Potassium Cocoate was an irritant in less than 1% of subjects with pre-existing dermatitis. Lipstick containing 10% Hydrogenated Coconut Oil caused no irritation after a single patch application and no indication of sensitization in retests performed 14 d later. Coconut Oil was not an allergen at 100% concentration in 12 subjects. The salts and esters of this large group of ingredients derived from Coconut Oil are expected to have similar toxicological profiles as the Oil, its hydrogenated forms, and its constituent fatty acids. In solution, the salts are expected to dissociate in any product formulation independent of whether the salt is sodium, ammonium, magnesium, or potassium. The esters likely will break down into their component parts, none of which present any safety issues, e.g. lauryl alcohol and coconut fatty acids for Lauryl Cocoate. The Expert Panel recognizes that use concentration data are not available for all ingredients in this group and that some ingredients in this group are not in current use. The Panel considers that the concentrations for the ingredients that are in use would apply to those with similar functions, but not those in current use. In the absence of inhalation toxicity data, the Expert Panel determined that Coconut Oil and its derivatives can be used safely in hair sprays, because the product particle size is not respirable. The Expert Panel stressed that the cosmetics industry should continue to limit pesticide residues and heavy metals that may be present in botanical ingredients before blending into cosmetic formulation. In addition, aflatoxin should not be present in Coconut Oil and ingredients derived from Cocos nucifera. With these limitiations, Coconut Oil and the other ingredients derived from Cocos nucifera are safe as cosmetic ingredients in the practices of use and concentration described in this safety assessment

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Products where you might find Coconut Acid

First Aid Beauty Coconut Water Cream; first aid beauty Coconut Skin Smoothie Priming Moisturizer; Farmacy Coconut Gel Sheet Mask – Hydrating;Kopari Coconut Melt;Kopari Coconut rose toner;Kopari Coconut lip glossy