Tucuma Butter
Plant butter · INCI: Astrocaryum Tucuma Seed Butter
Reviewed by Elysiana Aguilar, master esthetician
How we read it
Not a pore-clogger. Considered safe for acne-prone skin.
Is Tucuma Butter comedogenic?
No. Tucuma Butter 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
Tucuma butter is a firm, glossy butter from the seeds of an Amazonian palm, used to add slip and shine to hair and skin products. Murumuru butter is closely related and gets the same reading from us. We read tucuma butter as not pore-clogging.
The nuance
Some sources do flag tucuma butter, which is rich in lauric acid, the fatty acid behind coconut oil's reputation. We hold our reading, though a butter high on a face cream's label is a heavier proposition than a trace in a conditioner.
Where it shows up
Hair masks, conditioners, curl creams and styling butters, plus body butters, lip balms and solid lotion bars.
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: What causes acne.