What is Olive Butter?
Olive Butter (INCI name: Olea Europaea Fruit Butter) is a rich, semi-solid plant butter. Olive oil hardened with a hydrogenated vegetable fraction into a butter, used in rich body and cuticle products. It is named on the CLEARSTEM and AcneClinicNYC pore-clogging ingredient lists, but neither publishes 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 Olive Butter, Olea Europaea Fruit Butter, Olive Oil Butter, so it can hide under more than one name in an ingredient list.
Where Olive Butter shows up
You'll most often find Olive Butter in body butters, rich face and hand creams, lip balms, and hair masks.
Is Olive Butter bad for acne-prone skin?
Because no reliable comedogenic score exists for Olive Butter, judge it by how your own skin responds rather than by a number.
Worth flagging: Olive 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: Olive 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.