The invention provides a preparation method of
sodium methyl lauroyl taurate, which comprises the following steps: firstly, adding
lauric acid into a
reaction system, introducing
nitrogen to replace air, and heating until the
lauric acid is completely molten; the temperature of
lauric acid is controlled to be 100-140 DEG C, a
sodium methyl taurate
aqueous solution is injected according to the
molar ratio of lauric acid to
sodium methyl taurate being (2.0-3.5): 1, the temperature is increased to 230-250 DEG C, and a
reflux reaction is conducted for 4-8 hours; after the reaction is completed, mixing the reacted material with pure water, cooling and carrying out liquid-liquid separation; and concentrating the heavy phase, cooling and crystallizing to obtain a crude product of sodium methyl lauroyl taurate, recrystallizing with pure water, centrifugally separating, and
drying to obtain the product. The process is simple and convenient to operate, a catalyst is not used, the reaction is smoothly carried out by controlling the reaction proportion and
reaction temperature of lauric acid and sodium methyl taurate, water phase extraction is adopted, no
impurity is brought into the whole
reaction system, the conversion rate reaches 95% or above, and the product purity can reach 99% or above.