Coco-Glucoside
Mild surfactant · INCI: Coco-Glucoside
Reviewed by Elysiana Aguilar, master esthetician
How we read it
Not a pore-clogger. Considered safe for acne-prone skin.
Is Coco-Glucoside comedogenic?
No. Coco-Glucoside isn't considered pore-clogging, and we read it as safe to use on acne-prone skin. That doesn't make it right for everyone, but congestion isn't the thing to watch for with it.
Why we read it this way
Coco-glucoside is a sugar-based cleanser made by joining glucose to fatty alcohols derived from coconut oil, which makes it a blend of several chain lengths rather than a single one. We read it as not pore-clogging.
The nuance
The name leads people to read it as coconut oil, which we do flag. This is a water-soluble cleanser built from the oil's fatty chains and glucose, and it does not sit on the skin the way the oil does.
Where it shows up
Foaming face washes, body washes, shampoos and baby products, often paired with other sugar-based cleansers in formulas sold as sulfate-free.
Related ingredients
One ingredient rarely tells the whole story. The acne ingredient checker reads everything in a product at once, and there is more on what comedogenic means. Also in the guides: The types of acne lesions.