Ingredient · INCI listed
Myristic Acid
A fatty acid used (often with an alkali) to create the lather in soap-style cleansers, and as a thickener. A functional cleansing ingredient that can be stripping.
Data summary
Products containing
1
Most common in
1 product
cleansers
Typical pairing
Coco Glucoside
In the catalog
Myristic Acid by the numbers.
The DermFND database tracks 1 product formulated with myristic acid, and it's strongly concentrated in cleansers — 1 product, 100% of where it shows up. Those products average a 61/100 formulation score — around the catalog norm — topping out with Numbuzin No. 2 Deep Clean Fresh Cream Cleansing Foam at 61/100.
Its most frequent formulation partners are Quillaja Saponaria Bark Extract (1 shared formula) and Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate (1 shared formula).
Where it shows up