Listed below are comedogenic ingredients to look out for in your makeup, skincare, haircare, laundry soaps, and anything going onto your skin. If an ingredient in a product does not EXACTLY match one of the ingredients listed here, then it is not comedogenic. A good rule of thumb is to avoid products with most natural oils like jojoba, olive, shea, and coconut.

Acetylated Lanolin

Acetylated Lanolin Alcohol

Algae Extract

Algin

Butyl Stearate

Carrageenan

Cetyl Acetate

Cetearyl Alcohol + Ceteareth 20

Chondrus Crispus (aka Irish Moss or Carageenan Moss)

Chlorella

Coal Tar

Cocoa Butter

Coconut Alkanes

Coconut Butter

Coconut Oil

Colloidal Sulfur

Cotton Awws Oil

Cotton Seed Oil

D & C Red # 17

D & C Red # 21

D & C Red # 3

D & C Red # 30

D & C Red # 36

Decyl Oleate

Dioctyl Succinate

Disodium Monooleamido PEG 2-Sulfosuccinate

Ethoxylated Lanolin

Ethylhexyl Palmitate

Glyceryl Stearate SE

Glyceryl-3 Diisostearate

Hexadecyl Alcohol

Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil

Isocetyl Alcohol

Isocetyl Stearate

Isodecyl Oleate

Isopropyl Isostearate

Isopropyl Linolate

Isopropyl Myristate

Isopropyl Palmitate

Isostearyl Isosteearate

Isostearyl Neopentanoate

Jojoba Oil

Kelp

Laminaria Digitata Extract

Laminaria Saccharina Extract (Laminaria Saccharine)

Laureth-23

Laureth-4

Lauric Acid

Mink Oil

Myristic Acid

Myristyl Lactate

Myristyl Myristate

Octyl Palmitate

Octyl Stearate

Oleth-3

Oleyl Alcohol

Olive Oil

PEG 16 Lanolin

PEG 200 Dilaurate

PEG 8 Stearate

PG Monostearate

PPG 2 Myristyl Propionate

Plankton

Polyglyceryl-3 Diisostearate

Potassium Chloride

Propylene Glycol Monostearate

Red Algae

Seaweed

Shar Liver Oil (Squalene)

Shea Butter

Sodium Laureth Sulfate

Sodium Lauryl Sulfate

Solulan 16

Sorbitan Oleate

Soybean Oil

Spirulina

Steareth 10

Stearic Acid Tea

Stearyl Heptanoate

Sulfated Castor Oil

Sulfated Jojoba Oil

Wheat Germ Glyceride

Wheat Germ Oil

Xylene