What is Sweet Almond Butter?
Sweet Almond Butter (INCI name: Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Seed Butter) is a rich, semi-solid plant butter. Almond oil blended with a hydrogenated vegetable base to make a spoonable butter for body products. It is a heavier material than the plain almond oil on this grid, which rates 2. 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 Sweet Almond Butter, Almond Butter, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Seed Butter, so it can hide under more than one name in an ingredient list.
Where Sweet Almond Butter shows up
You'll most often find Sweet Almond Butter in body butters, rich face and hand creams, lip balms, and hair masks.
Is Sweet Almond Butter bad for acne-prone skin?
Because no reliable comedogenic score exists for Sweet Almond Butter, judge it by how your own skin responds rather than by a number.
Worth flagging: Sweet Almond 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: Sweet Almond 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.