Face: which products have coconut?

22 products checked, label in hand

• 3✓ No coconut listed
• 12! Can’t be verified
• 7✕ Contains coconut

Face creams and serums rarely list coconut oil outright. What turns up instead is caprylic/capric triglyceride, which is made from coconut oil, and a group of refined ingredients — glycerin, cetearyl alcohol, caprylyl glycol — that can come from coconut, from palm or from petroleum. For those the label doesn’t say which.

The coconut names that turn up most

Counted across the 22 products on this page.

• Glycerin / glycerolin 18 of 22
• Caprylyl / capryloyl / decyl (C8–C10 chains)in 8 of 22
• Cetearyl / cetyl / stearyl alcohol (and ceteareth-, steareth-, -trimonium, -dimonium)in 5 of 22
• Palmitate / palmitic acidin 4 of 22
• Caprylic/capric triglyceridein 3 of 22
• Tri-C12-18 acid glyceryl (lauric-chain triglycerides)in 3 of 22

Every product we checked

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Always read the label on the product in your hand: formulas change. Educational only, not medical advice. Always confirm with your allergist.