Carrot Seed Oil
Plant oil · INCI: Daucus Carota Sativa (Carrot) Seed Oil
Reviewed by Elysiana Aguilar, master esthetician
How we read it
Known to clog pores. If you break out easily, this is the one to skip.
Is Carrot Seed Oil comedogenic?
Yes. Carrot Seed Oil is a known pore-clogging ingredient, and we read it as highly comedogenic. If you're acne-prone, it's worth avoiding, especially when it sits near the top of an ingredient list.
Why we read it this way
Carrot seed oil is a heavy, strongly colored oil used in small amounts for its antioxidant content. It appears on the pore-clogging references we curate against, and its richness relative to how little is normally used is why we flag it.
The nuance
It is almost always a minor ingredient well down a list, so its share of a formula is small. Carrot seed essential oil and carrot root extract are different materials that often get confused with it.
Names we read the same way
- Daucus Carota Seed Oil
Related ingredients
One ingredient rarely tells the whole story. The acne ingredient checker reads everything in a product at once, the pore-clogging ingredients list has the rest of what we flag, and there is more on what comedogenic means. Also in the guides: The types of acne lesions.