What is Rice Bran Oil?
Chemically, Rice Bran Oil (INCI name: Oryza Sativa Bran Oil) is a plant- or seed-derived oil. A light, vitamin-E-rich oil pressed from the bran of rice, popular in Japanese and Korean formulas for its slip and oxidative stability. 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 Rice Bran Oil, Ricebran Oil, Oryza Sativa Bran Oil, Rice Oil, so it can hide under more than one name in an ingredient list.
Where Rice Bran Oil shows up
Rice Bran Oil is commonly formulated into facial oils, cleansing balms, moisturisers, hair products, and many products marketed as natural.
Is Rice Bran Oil bad for acne-prone skin?
Because no reliable comedogenic score exists for Rice Bran Oil, judge it by how your own skin responds rather than by a number.
Worth flagging: Rice Bran 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: Rice Bran 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.