“Sodium chloride?”Here!table salt
Appears in 2 scanned products.
In personal care
The same compound as ordinary table salt, either mined from underground deposits or evaporated from seawater. In cosmetics it usually appears as a fine or coarse white crystal or dissolved in water.
Why it’s used
In liquid soaps and shampoos, salt is used to thicken the formula by changing how surfactant molecules pack together — a cheap and effective way to get a product from watery to gel-like without adding a separate thickening ingredient. In scrubs, larger salt crystals serve as a physical exfoliant.
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
In rinse-off products used as a thickener, it is present briefly and at levels well below anything of concern. In leave-on scrubs, the concern is mechanical (abrasion from the crystal edges) rather than chemical, and depends entirely on how coarse the grain is and how hard it is applied.
Rumors
Salt in shampoo strips a keratin treatment and dries out the hair.
We haven’t found evidence strong enough to support this or rule it out.
What was measured is not yet noted.
Who’s saying this
- Keragen — a brand: sells keratin haircare products; a brand of Chemco Corp
How we know who this is
- “Keragen is a brand of Chemco Corp, legally registered and operating in the United States.” (their page)
- Keragen — a brand: sells keratin haircare products; a brand of Chemco Corp
As a supplement
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist.
Roll Call does not check drug interactions or assess personal safety.
A simple mineral compound made of sodium and chloride ions, the same substance as common table salt.
Why it’s used
Included in electrolyte and hydration supplements to supply sodium and chloride, which the body uses to regulate fluid balance, nerve transmission, and muscle function.
What the evidence is for
maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
What the evidence says
The cited National Academies report describes sodium as an essential nutrient and one of the body's key blood electrolytes, with its concentration tightly regulated by the kidney and hormonal systems rather than directly set by diet. This is a general statement of physiology for the broad adult population based on long-standing consensus science, not a single clinical trial, and the document does not report a specific dose-response clinical outcome beyond this regulatory description. No biomarker or clinical endpoint data from a specific intervention is quoted in the retrieved text; the statement is foundational physiology rather than a study result.
Context
Reference intake values are derived from population studies of sodium and chloride requirements and health outcomes, not from supplement dosing trials specifically.
Rumors
Maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
Not gradedhealth and safety evidence
Sources cited — no verdict reached.
What was measured is not yet noted.
- Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium (Regulatory) · Funding not checked
Where it shows up
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