INCI dishwashing detergent
Sara IdenforsHow to read the ingredients list:
True soft soap is made from oils/fats and potassium hydroxide instead of sodium hydroxide, which produces hard soap, because potassium hydroxide, also known as potash lye, creates soft soap crystals. Consequently, soft soap has an ingredients list with INCI names beginning with: Potassium. The names indicate that the soap consists of fatty acid salts (soft soap/soap) saponified with potassium hydroxide and the respective oil/fat.
So this does not mean that a “foreign chemical” has been added; it is simply the specific name of the particular soft soap that has been formed and the oil/fat from which it was made. In everyday language we say soft soap; in “chemical language,” soft soap made from rapeseed oil is called: Potassium canolate. And Aqua is, of course, simply ordinary water.
This is INCI
INCI stands for International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients and is the standardized name for an ingredient that must be listed in a product’s ingredients list. These names are often based on Latin when it comes to plant extracts and similar substances, while other substances may have English names. INCI names can differ greatly from the common names we use in everyday life, which means that natural ingredients can sometimes sound chemical—and vice versa. Ordinary table salt, for example, is called: Sodium Chloride. And an INCI list for ordinary cow’s milk would contain approximately 18 lines, including Copper Gluconate (copper) and Potassium Iodide (trace) (iodine) among the trace elements and vitamins—that is how detailed an INCI list actually is. There are currently no INCI requirements for food, so milk is simply called MILK, whereas soap and soft soap may not be called simply soap and soft soap.
Nor does the INCI name indicate whether a natural ingredient has been organically grown.
Some ingredients may also occur in both natural and synthetic forms, without this being apparent from the INCI designation.
Our dishwashing liquid contains:
5–15% soap, 5-<15% nonionic surfactants, <5% amphoteric surfactants, preservative: Sodium Benzoate
Publicly available list of ingredients
in accordance with Annex VII D of regulation (EC) No 648/2004
Product name: Dishwashing liquid
Manufacturer: VästerbottensSåpa AB
Ingredients:
WATER
FATTY ACIDS, C16-18 AND C18-UNSATD., POTASSIUM SALTS
ALCOHOLS, C10-16, ETHOXYLATED PROPOXYLATED
DECYLMONOETHANOLAMIDE ETHOXYLATE
SODIUM CITRATE
POTASSIUM CITRATE
2-METHYL-2,4,6,9-TETRAAZATRICYCLO[9.4.0.0,3,8]PENTADECA-1(15),3,5,7,11,13-HEXAENE
POLYASPARTIC ACID SODIUM SALT
ALCOHOL
COCAMIDOPROPYL BETAINE
TRIETHANOLAMINE
XANTHAN GUM
GLYCERIN
MEK
SODIUM BENZOATE
SODIUM HYDROXIDE
ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL
DENATONIUM BENZOATE