What is Camelina Oil?
Camelina Oil (INCI name: Camelina Sativa Seed Oil) falls into the oil category — a plant- or seed-derived oil. An omega-3-rich seed oil from the false flax plant, used as a lighter alternative to flaxseed oil in barrier formulas. It is named on the CLEARSTEM pore-clogging ingredient list, but that list does not publish a 0-5 comedogenic score for it and no Fulton-derived table we cite carries one. We therefore leave it unrated rather than invent a number — treat the listing itself as the signal.
You may see it on labels as Camelina Oil, Camelina Sativa Seed Oil, Gold Of Pleasure Oil, False Flax Oil, so it can hide under more than one name in an ingredient list.
Where Camelina Oil shows up
As a plant- or seed-derived oil, Camelina Oil typically appears in facial oils, cleansing balms, moisturisers, hair products, and many products marketed as natural.
Is Camelina Oil bad for acne-prone skin?
Because no reliable comedogenic score exists for Camelina Oil, judge it by how your own skin responds rather than by a number.
Worth flagging: Camelina Oil'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: Camelina Oil 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.