Is caprylic/capric triglyceride comedogenic?
Short answer
No concern found: No concern found in the included sourcesNo source included in this dataset reports a comedogenicity concern for caprylic/capric triglyceride, and the single citation on the record establishes identity rather than comedogenicity. The question most people are actually asking is whether it counts as coconut oil, because it is commonly sold as fractionated coconut oil. On a label it does not: it is a separate declared ingredient with its own record.
Recorded as Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride · dataset record caprylic-capric-triglyceride · reviewed 2026-08-06
What the evidence actually is
A reference or regulatory source rather than a study that measured comedogenicity. In this dataset that most often means the source establishes only that the name refers to a recognised cosmetic ingredient.
What the sources report
A recognised cosmetic ingredient. No source included in this dataset reports a comedogenicity concern for it. Its INCI name contains a slash as part of the name itself, which is why this checker does not split ingredient names on slashes.
What this does not cover
This states only that the included sources raised no concern for this name. The corpus is small, so this is not a finding of proven non-comedogenicity, and it says nothing about the finished product.
Why people ask about Caprylic/capric triglyceride
Almost entirely by association. Caprylic/capric triglyceride is commonly derived from coconut oil and marketed as fractionated coconut oil or MCT oil, so anyone who has decided to avoid coconut oil wants to know whether this counts. It is also very common in lightweight facial oils and cleansing oils, which are exactly the products that decision tends to apply to.
Where the circulating rating for Caprylic/capric triglyceride comes from
Circulating lists tend to place caprylic/capric triglyceride in the low-to-middle band, and sometimes carry a rating over from coconut oil on the strength of the shared origin. That carry-over is the problem worth naming. The two are different declared materials, and this project has no verified assessment for either of them. Inheriting a number from a related ingredient is one of the main ways unsourced ratings spread and then harden into common knowledge.
Names Caprylic/capric triglyceride appears under
Declared as Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, and also sold as fractionated coconut oil, MCT oil or medium chain triglycerides. The slash is part of the INCI name itself, which is why this project's parser never splits an ingredient name on a slash — doing so would turn one real ingredient into two fragments that match nothing. Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil is a separate record here.
Recognised in this dataset as Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, and through the recorded aliases fractionated coconut oil, mct oil, medium chain triglycerides. Matching is exact: there is no fuzzy matching anywhere in this tool, so a name not listed here is reported as unrecognised rather than guessed at.
Questions about caprylic/capric triglyceride
Is caprylic/capric triglyceride the same as coconut oil?
Not as a declared ingredient. It is frequently derived from coconut oil and sold as fractionated coconut oil, but it is a different name with its own record, and this project does not transfer a result between them.
Is MCT oil comedogenic?
MCT oil is usually the same material declared under a marketing name. The sources reviewed here contain no comedogenicity assessment for it, so there is nothing citable to report in either direction.
Why is there a slash in the middle of an ingredient name?
Because the slash is part of the official name rather than a separator between two ingredients. Checkers that split label text on punctuation can turn this single ingredient into two unrecognised fragments, which is why this parser is written not to split on slashes.
Sources cited on this page
These are the sources attached to this record. Nothing on this page is drawn from anything else.
Cosmetic ingredient database (CosIng)
European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, 2026. Regulator.
Used only to establish that an INCI name refers to a recognised cosmetic ingredient. Presence in CosIng does not mean an ingredient is approved, safe, or non-comedogenic, and this dataset never treats an identity citation as evidence about comedogenicity.
Record reviewed 2026-08-06 by pore-checker prototype dataset compilation (not clinically reviewed).