Pore Clogging Ingredient Checker

Your skincare products, makeup, and hair products can clog your pores and may exacerbate acne.

Check your products using our pore clogging ingredient checker below. Enter your ingredient list and hit submit. If any ingredients come back in red, you’ll know that product is not acne safe.

If you have any questions, please reach out and we’ll be happy to help.

Full List of Pore Clogging Ingredients:

  • 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 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 Isostearate

  • Isostearyl Neopentanoate

  • 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

  • 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

  • Shark Liver Oil (Squalene)

  • Shea Butter

  • Sodium Laureth Sulfate

  • Sodium Lauryl Sulfate

  • Solulan 16

  • Sorbitan Oleate

  • Soybean Oil (Glycine Soja)

  • Spirulina

  • Steareth 10

  • Stearic Acid Tea

  • Stearyl Heptanoate

  • Sulfated Castor Oil

  • Sulfated Jojoba Oil

  • Wheat Germ Glyceride

  • Wheat Germ Oil

  • Xylene