What is Murumuru Butter?
Murumuru Butter (INCI name: Astrocaryum Murumuru Seed Butter) falls into the butter category — a rich, semi-solid plant butter. A hard palm-family butter high in lauric acid, so it is frequently flagged as pore-clogging in the moderate-to-high range.
You may see it on labels as Murumuru Butter, Astrocaryum Murumuru Seed Butter, so it can hide under more than one name in an ingredient list.
Where Murumuru Butter shows up
As a rich, semi-solid plant butter, Murumuru 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 Murumuru Butter bad for acne-prone skin?
Murumuru Butter sits in the grey zone. Plenty of people tolerate it well; those who break out easily may prefer to keep it low on their ingredient lists.
Worth flagging: Murumuru 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: Murumuru 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 Murumuru 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).