Pore-Clogging Ingredients Checker
We made it very easy for you to check pore-clogging ingredients in your skin care and makeup products. To do this, you should google the full name of your product and add 'ingredients' at the end.
For example:
"Neutrogena Deep Clean Cream Cleanser
ingredients." Copy the ingredients deck and insert it in the field below.
Hit
'Check Ingredients'
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List of pore-clogging (comedogenic) ingredients
If you have acne-prone skin, don’t ever put anything on your skin or hair without checking it for comdedogenic, or pore-clogging ingredients (the ingredients that clog your pores)! Remember even if it says “noncomedogenic”, “oil free” or “won’t clog your pores” on the bottle that doesn’t mean it’s safe to use on your skin. No government agency oversees this, so skincare companies can claim their products promote clear skin and still have pore-cloggers in their products. Always check the products ingredient list before using any products on your face or in your hair.
Attention: Ingredient comedogenicity is unaffected by formulation. Despite brands claiming that formulation alters this property, the inherent nature of the ingredients remains the same.
Highly Comedogenic Ingredients
- 1-acetoxyhexadecane
- 1-hexadecanol acetate
- Acetylated Lanolin
- Acetylated Lanolin Alcohol
- Acetylated wool fat
- Acetylated wool wax
- Adansonia digitata l.
- Agar
- Ahnfeltiopsis concinna Extract
- Alaria Esculenta
- Alaria esculenta Extract
- Alga bladderwrack
- Algae
- Algae Extract
- Algin
- Alginate
- Alginic acid
- Aphanothece sacrum polysaccharide
- Arthrospira platensis
- Ascophyllum
- Asparagopsis armata Extract
- Astrocaryum Murumuru Seed Butter
- Avocado Butter
- Beef Tallow
- Beeswax
- Bismuth
- Bismuth Oxychloride
- Black Kelp
- Bladderwrack
- Bryopsis africana
- Butyl Stearate
- Butyl Stearic acid
- Butyrospermum
- Butyrospermum Parkii (Butyrospermum Parkii Butter Extract, Shea Butter Extract)
- Cacao butter (cocoa seed butter, theobroma cacao butter, theobroma cacao seed butter, theobroma cocoa butter)
- Capea biruncinata var. denuda sonder
- Capea biruncinata var. elongata sonder
- Carrageenan gum
- Carastay C
- Carrageenan
- Caulerpa filiformis
- Caulerpa lentillifera Extract
- Cera alba
- Cera bianca
- Cera flava
- Cera olea
- Cetearyl Alcohol + Ceteareth 20
- Cetyl Acetate
- Chaetomorpha linum (Chaetomorpha aerea)
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Extract
- Chlorella
- Chlorophyceae
- Chondrus Crispus Powder
- Cladophora cf. subsimplex
- Cladophora radiosa
- Cladosiphon okamuranus Extract
- Coal Tar
- Cocoa Butter
- Coconut Alkanes
- Coconut Butter
- Coconut Extract
- Coconut Fruit Extract
- Coconut Nucifera Extract
- Coconut Oil (Cocos oil)
- Cocos Nucifera (Cocos Nucifera Extract, Cocos Nucifera Fruit Extract, Cocos nucifera coconut oil)
- Cocos Nucifera Oil
- Cocos nucifera seed butter
- Codium Fragile Extract
- Coenochloris signiensis Extract
- Colloidal Sulfur
- Corn
- Corn Oil
- Cotton Awws Oil
- Cotton Oil
- Cotton Seed Oil
- Cupuacu Butter
- Cystoseira tamariscifolia Extract
- D & C Red # 17
- D & C Red # 19
- D & C Red # 21
- D & C Red # 27
- D & C Red # 3
- D & C Red # 30
- D & C Red # 33
- D & C Red # 36
- D & C Red # 4
- D & C Red # 40
- D & C Red # 6
- D & C Red # 7
- D & C Red # 9
- Dictyopteris membranacea
- Dictyopteris polypodioides
- Diethylhexyl sodium sulfosuccinate
- Diisooctyl succinate
- Diisostearyl Malate
- Dilsea carnosa Extract
- Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate
- Dioctyl Succinate
- Disodium Monooleamido
- Disodium Monooleamido PEG-2 sulfosuccinate
- Disodium oleamido PEG-2 sulfosuccinate
- Dodecanoic Acid
- Dodecoic acid
- Dodecyl acid
- Dulse
- Dunaliella salina Extract
- Duodecylic acid
- Durvillaea antarctica Extract
- Ecklonia
- Ecklonia cava
- Ecklonia cava Extract
- Enteromorpha Compressa
- Enteromorpha compressa Extract
- Ethoxylated Lanolin
- Ethylhexyl Palmitate
- Ethylhexyl Stearate
- Eucheuma spinosum Extract
- Fucoxanthin
- Fucus serratus
- Fucus vesiculosus
- Gamtae Extract
- Gelidiella acerosa Extract
- Gelidium amansii Extract
- Gigartina stellata Extract
- Glyceryl Stearate SE
- Glyceryl-3 Diisostearate
- Glycine max
- Glycine soja Oil
- Gracilariopsis chorda Extract
- Haematococcus pluvialis
- Haematococcus pluvialis Extract
- Haslea Ostrearia
- Haslea ostrearia Extract
- Hexadecanol acetate
- Hexadecyl Alcohol
- Himanthalia Elongata
- Hizikia fusiforme Extract
- Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
- Hydrolyzed rhodophycea Extract
- Hydrous magnesium silicate
- Hypnea musciformis Extract
- Hypnaceae Extract
- Isocetyl Alcohol
- Isocetyl Stearate
- Isodecyl Oleate
- Isohexadecyl stearate
- Isooctadecyl isooctadecanoate
- Isopalmitic alcohol
- Isopalmityl alcohol
- Isopropyl isodecanoate
- Isopropyl Isostearate
- Isopropyl Lanolate
- Isopropyl Linoleate
- Isopropyl Myristate
- Isopropyl Palmitate
- Isostearate
- Isostearic Acid
- Isostearyl
- Isostearyl Isostearate
- Isostearyl Neopentanoate
- Jania rubens Extract
- Jojoba Butter
- Jojoba wax
- Kapok Oil
- Kappaphycus
- Kappaphycus alvarezii Extract
- Karite
- Kelp
- Kousou ekisu
- Laminaria
- Laminaria Digitata Extract
- Laminaria Longicruris (Laminaria Longicruris Extract)
- Laminaria Saccharina Extract (Laminaria Saccharine)
- Lanolic Acid
- Lanolin acetate
- Lanolin Alcohol
- Lanolin polyoxyethylene ether
- Laureth-12
- Laureth-23
- Laureth-4
- Laureth-7
- Lauric Acid
- Laurostearic acid
- Lauroyl Lysine
- Lauryl Sulfate
- Linseed
- Linseed Oil
- Linum Usitatissimum Seed Oil (Linseed Seed Oil)
- Liquor picis carbonis
- Lithothamnium Calcareum
- Lithothamnium calcareum powder
- Lola Implexa
- Lpc
- Macroalgae
- Macrocystis pyrifera Extract
- Macrocystis Pyrifera Extract (Kelp Extract)
- Magnesium Myristate
- Mahua Seed Oil
- Mangifera indica seed butter
- Mango Butter
- Marula
- Marula Oil
- Mastocarpus
- Mastocarpus Stellatus
- Microcystis Aeruginosa
- Mink Oil
- Monostearate
- Moss
- Myristate
- Myristic Acid
- Myristyl
- Myristyl Alcohol
- Myristyl Lactate
- Myristyl Myristate
- Myristyl Propionate
- N-hexadecyl ethanoate
- Norwegian Kelp
- Octadecyl heptanoate
- Octyl Palmitate
- Octyl Stearate
- Oleth-3
- Oleth-3 phosphate
- Oleyl Alcohol
- Olive Butter
- Padina Pavonica (Padina Pavonica Extract)
- Palm Butter
- Palm Kernel Oil
- Palm Oil
- Palmaria Oalmarta Extract (Palmaria Oalmarta Extract Dulse)
- Palmaria palmata Extract
- Palmaria Palmate
- Palmityl Acetate
- Parkii
- PEG 16 Lanolin
- PEG 8 Stearate
- Pelvetia canaliculata Extract
- Pentaerythrityl Tetraisostearate
- Pentaerythrityl Tetraoleate
- Persea Americana
- PG Monostearate
- PGMS
- Phaeodactylum tricornutum Extract
- Phaeophyceae
- Phytessence Wakame
- Pilu Oil
- Pix carbonis
- Plankton
- Plankton Extract
- Polysiphonia elongata Extract
- Porphyra
- Porphyra umbilicalis
- Porphyridium
- Porphyridium Cruentum
- Porphyridium cruentum Extract
- Potassium Chloride
- Potassium Cocoate
- Potassium Salt
- PPG 2 Myristyl Ether Propionate
- PPG 2 Myristyl Propionate
- PPG-2 Myristyl (PPG 2 Myristyl)
- Propylene Glycol Monostearate
- Pyrene coal tar pitch
- Red Algae
- Red Palm Oil
- Rhodophyceae Extract
- Rhodophyta
- Rockweed
- Sargassum
- Sargassum filipendula Extract
- Sargassum fusiforme Extract
- Sclerocarya birrea
- Sclerocarya birrea seed Oil
- Sea fern
- Sea Grass
- Sea Mayweed
- Sea Whip (Sea Whip Extract)
- Seaweed
- Sesame
- Sesame Seed
- Sesamum indicum
- Shark Liver Oil
- Shark Squalene
- Shea
- Shea Butter
- Shea Nut Oil
- Sheep alcohol
- Simmondsia chinensis seed wax
- Sles
- Slo
- Sls
- Sodium Alginate
- Sodium Alkylethersulfate
- Sodium Docusate
- Sodium Dodecyl sulphate
- Sodium Laurel Sulfate
- Sodium Laureth Sulfate
- Sodium Lauryl Ether sulfate
- Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
- Soja
- Solulan 16
- Sorbitan Oleate
- Soy
- Sphacelaria
- Spirulina
- Squalene
- Starch
- Steareth 10
- Stearic Acid Tea
- Stearyl Heptanoate
- Sulfated Castor Oil
- Sulfated Jojoba Oil
- Sulphated castor Oil
- Sunflower Butter
- Sweet Almond Butter
- Talc
- Talcum
- Tallow
- Tapioca Starch
- Tea stearate
- Tetradecyl myristate
- Theobroma butter
- Theobroma cocoa seed butter
- Triticum aestivum
- Triticum vulgare
- Tucuma Butter
- Turkey red Oil
- Ulva fasciata
- Ulva rhacodes
- Undaria
- Undaria Pinnatifida
- Vitellaria paradoxa
- Vulvic acid
- Wakame
- Wheat
- Wheat Germ Glyceride
- Wheat Germ Oil
- Wool alcohol
- Wool fat
- Xanthophyta
- Xylene
- Zea mays
- Active soil
- Blue algae
- Blue green algae
- Brown algae
- Butyrospermum parkii butter (shea butter)
- Carrot seed oil
- Isoceteth-20
- Lanolin
- Marine algae
- Olive oil peg-7 esters
- Pouteria sapota seed butter
- Synthetic Beeswax
- Synthetic Wax
- Ahnfeltia concinna (Ahnfeltia concinna extract)
- Ascophyllum nodosum
- Ascophyllum nodosum extract
- Chondrus crispus (irish moss, Carrageenan moss)
- Ecklonia radiata
- Theobroma Oil
- Ulva Lactuca
- Cotton awws
- A & D additive
- Ahnfeltia concinna
- Almond Oil
- Andiroba Seed Oil
- Apricot Kernel Oil
- Apricot Oil
- Avocado (Avocado oil)
- Babassu Oil
- Borage Oil
- Brazil Nut Oil
- Buriti Oil
- Canola Oil
- Cherry Seed Oil
- Chullu Seed Oil (Wild Apricot Seed Oil)
- Cranberry Seed Oil
- Decyl oleate
- Evening Primrose Oil
- Flax Oil
- Flaxseed Oil
- Karanja Oil
- Kukui Nut
- Kukui Nut Oil
- Kukui Oil
- Laminaria digitata
- Macadamia Nut Oil
- Moringa
- Moringa Oil
- Moringa Oleifera Seed Oil
- Myreth-3 myristate
- Neem Oil
- Olea Europaea Fruit Oil
- Olive Oil
- Palash Oil
- Palmitic Acid
- Papaya Seed Oil
- Peach Kernel Oil
- Peanut Oil
- Pecan Oil
- PEG 200 Dilaurate (PEG-200 Dilaurate)
- Pequot Oil
- Persea Gratissima Oil (Avocado Oil)
- Pine Nut Oil
- Polyglyceryl-3 Diisostearate (Polyglyceryl-3-Disostearate)
- Polyglyceryl-Diisostearate
- PPG-5 ceteth-10 phosphate
- Pracaxi Oil
- Prunus Dulcis Oil
- Pumpkin Seed Oil
- Rapeseed Oil
- Red 28 Lake
- Rice bran Oil
- Sandalwood Seed Oil
- Sesame oil
- Soybean (Soybean Oil)
- Sweet Almond Oil
- Tamanu Oil
- Vitamin E Oil
