Ingredient · INCI listed
Mineral Oil
A highly refined, inert occlusive that seals in moisture reliably and rarely irritates — and, contrary to its reputation, is non-comedogenic in cosmetic grade. Unglamorous but dependable.
Data summary
Products containing
19
Most common in
7 products
body cares
Typical pairing
Glycerin
In the catalog
Mineral Oil by the numbers.
Mineral Oil appears in 19 products across the DermFND catalog, most often in body cares (7 products) but also across moisturizers and cleansers. Formulations carrying it score 69/100 on average (above the catalog norm); the strongest is La Roche-Posay Effaclar Multi-Target Blemish Patches at 88/100.
Of those, 2 products score 80 or higher in our analysis. It co-occurs most with Glycerin (8 shared formulas) and Petrolatum (5 shared formulas). The median price of a mineral oil product here is $13.
Where it shows up