“Cocamide DEA?”Here!
Hasn’t appeared in a scanned product yet.
In personal care
A fatty acid amide made by reacting coconut-derived fatty acids with diethanolamine.
Why it’s used
It boosts and stabilizes foam in shampoos and body washes, and thickens the formula so it feels richer in the hand.
What the evidence says
We haven’t found a source for this one that you can open and check, so we’re not summarizing the evidence.
Look it up yourself
We would rather point you at the shelf than summarize something you can’t check. These are the same places we search:
- PubChem — what the substance is, chemically — names, synonyms and structure
- PubMed — every paper indexed by the US National Library of Medicine that names it
These are starting points, not our findings — we haven’t run them for you. A substance whose name is also an ordinary word (“Heart”, “Alanine”, “Water”) will return papers that are not about the ingredient at all.
Context
The IARC classification is based on data using the compound itself, largely from high-dose animal studies; it is a rinse-off ingredient in typical cosmetic use, and CIR guidance focuses on formulating to minimize nitrosamine formation rather than on cosmetic-use exposure levels matching study doses.
No claims graded here yet.