What is Cupuacu Butter?
Cupuacu Butter (INCI name: Theobroma Grandiflorum Seed Butter) falls into the butter category — a rich, semi-solid plant butter. A cocoa-butter relative valued for water absorption; commonly placed around 2, though data is limited.
You may see it on labels as Cupuacu Butter, Cupuacu, Theobroma Grandiflorum Seed Butter, so it can hide under more than one name in an ingredient list.
Where Cupuacu Butter shows up
As a rich, semi-solid plant butter, Cupuacu Butter typically appears 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 Cupuacu Butter bad for acne-prone skin?
Because it barely registers on the comedogenic scale, Cupuacu Butter is generally a safe pick for breakout-prone skin and is often recommended as a gentler alternative to heavier ingredients.
Worth flagging: Cupuacu 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: Cupuacu 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.