What is Sunflower Butter?
Sunflower Butter (INCI name: Helianthus Annuus Seed Butter) is a rich, semi-solid plant butter. A solidified sunflower-oil butter used in body balms. Worth separating from plain sunflower oil, which rates 0 and is one of the safest oils on this grid — the butter is a different, heavier material. 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 Sunflower Butter, Helianthus Annuus Seed Butter, Sunflower Seed Butter, so it can hide under more than one name in an ingredient list.
Where Sunflower Butter shows up
You'll most often find Sunflower Butter in body butters, rich face and hand creams, lip balms, and hair masks.
Is Sunflower Butter bad for acne-prone skin?
Because no reliable comedogenic score exists for Sunflower Butter, judge it by how your own skin responds rather than by a number.
Worth flagging: Sunflower 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: Sunflower 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.