Are your products breaking you out?

They might be the culprit.

If you are acne-prone, certain ingredients can be the source of irritation, clogged pores, and frequent breakouts. Even products that claim to be “clean” or “non-comedogenic” can have sneaky acne triggers.

Always check the ingredients of your products before applying them to your face and body.

To be safe, use this tool below by copying and pasting your product’s ingredient list into the checker!

Acne Safe Ingredient Checker

Copy and paste a list (separated by commas or line breaks) of the ingredients listed on your product to check for comedogenic ingredients. (i.e. skincare, makeup, haircare, laundry detergent, body products, toothpaste, etc):

*Disclaimer: This checker may not catch every ingredient that is a potential pore-clogger. Double check with the wording on the ingredient list below and as always if you are unsure, please verify your products with Authentic Beauty.

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  • Acetylated Lanolin

  • Acetylated Lanolin Alcohol

  • Algae

  • Algae Extract

  • Algin

  • Ascophyllum nodosum

  • Baobab

  • Beef tallow

  • Beeswax

  • White Wax

  • Bismuth

  • Bismuth Oxychloride

  • Butyl Stearate

  • Carrageenan

  • Chondrus Crispus (aka Irish Moss or Carageenan Moss)

  • Cetearyl Alcohol

  • Cetearyl Alcohol + Ceteareth 20

  • Cetearyl Alcohol + Ceteareth-20

  • Ceteareth-20

  • Cetyl Acetate

  • Cera Alba

  • Cera Flava

  • Chlorella

  • Coal Tar

  • Cacao Butter

  • Cocoa Butter

  • Theobroma Cacao Butter

  • Coconut Alkanes

  • Coconut Butter

  • Coconut Oil

  • Cocos Nucifera Oil

  • Coconut extract

  • Coconut Nucifera extract

  • Colloidal Sulfur

  • Cotton Seed Oil

  • Cotton Awws Oil

  • Gossypium Herbaceum (Cotton) Seed Oil

  • Corn Oil

  • Zea Mays (Corn) 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

  • 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

  • Jojoba Wax

  • Kelp

  • Laminaria Digitata Extract

Look out for these pore-clogging ingredients in your products:

Full Pore-Clogging Ingredient List

  • Laminaria Saccharina Extract (Laminaria Saccharine)

  • Laureth-23

  • Laureth-4

  • Lauric Acid

  • Mango Butter

  • Marula 

  • Marula Oil

  • Morgina Oil

  • Mink Oil

  • Moss

  • Myristic Acid

  • Myristyl Lactate

  • Myristyl Myristate

  • Octyl Palmitate

  • Octyl Stearate

  • Oleth-3

  • Oleyl Alcohol

  • Palm Oil

  • Parkii

  • PEG 2- Sulfosuccinate

  • PEG 16 Lanolin

  • PEG 200 Dilaurate

  • PEG 8 Stearate

  • PPG 2 Myristyl Propionate

  • Plankton

  • Polyglyceryl-3 Diisostearate

  • Potassium Chloride

  • Propylene Glycol Monostearate

  • Red Algae

  • Red 3

  • Red 30

  • Red 36

  • Seaweed

  • Sesame Oil

  • Shark Liver Oil

  • Shea

  • Shea Butter

  • Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter

  • Sodium Laureth Sulfate

  • Sodium Lauryl Sulfate

  • Solulan 16

  • Soja

  • Sorbitan Oleate

  • Soy

  • Soybean Oil

  • Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil

  • Soyabean Oil

  • Spirulina

  • Steareth 10

  • Stearic Acid Tea

  • Squalene

  • Talc

  • Tea-Stearic Acid

  • Stearyl Heptanoate

  • Sulfated Castor Oil

  • Turkey Red Oil

  • Theobroma butter

  • Theobroma oil

  • Sulfated Jojoba Oil

  • Undaria Pinnatifida

  • Wakame

  • Wheat

  • Wheat Germ Glyceride

  • Wheat Germ Oil

  • Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Oil

  • Xylene