What is Avocado Butter?
Avocado Butter (INCI name: Persea Gratissima Butter) is a rich, semi-solid plant butter. A hydrogenated avocado fat repeatedly named on pore-clogging lists, generally in the moderate range.
You may see it on labels as Avocado Butter, Persea Gratissima Butter, so it can hide under more than one name in an ingredient list.
Where Avocado Butter shows up
You'll most often find Avocado Butter in body butters, rich face and hand creams, lip balms, and hair masks. Separately from clogging, its irritancy is rated 0/5 — low, so it's unlikely to sting or sensitise on its own.
Is Avocado Butter bad for acne-prone skin?
A moderate rating means Avocado Butter clogs some people and not others. If you're prone to congestion, patch-test a product that features it prominently before committing.
Worth flagging: Avocado Butter's rating is disputed. Credible sources land on different numbers, which is why we show a range rather than a single score — and why your own experience is the best tiebreaker.
Note for fungal-acne (malassezia) sufferers: Avocado Butter is commonly avoided in fungal-acne routines, since it falls into the fatty-acid or ester families the yeast can feed on. The evidence there is looser than for comedogenicity — see our fungal-acne checker for context.
Non-comedogenic alternatives
If you're avoiding Avocado Butter, these lower-risk ingredients serve a similar role and are gentler on pore-prone skin:
- Squalane — rated 1/5 (Low risk).
- Mango Butter — rated 2/5 (Low risk).