What is Pine Nut Oil?
Chemically, Pine Nut Oil (INCI name: Pinus Pinea Seed Oil) is a plant- or seed-derived oil. A linoleic-rich conifer seed oil used in barrier and soothing formulas, though it oxidises readily once opened. 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 Pine Nut Oil, Pinus Pinea Seed Oil, Cedar Nut Oil, so it can hide under more than one name in an ingredient list.
Where Pine Nut Oil shows up
Pine Nut Oil is commonly formulated into facial oils, cleansing balms, moisturisers, hair products, and many products marketed as natural.
Is Pine Nut Oil bad for acne-prone skin?
Because no reliable comedogenic score exists for Pine Nut Oil, judge it by how your own skin responds rather than by a number.
Worth flagging: Pine Nut 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: Pine Nut 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.