Is tocopherol (vitamin E) comedogenic?
Short answer
No concern found: No concern found in the included sourcesNo source included in this dataset reports a comedogenicity concern for tocopherol. The record's only citation establishes ingredient identity rather than comedogenicity, so the reviewed literature does not address the question. The more useful thing this page can tell you is that 'vitamin E' on a label may be any of several distinct declared ingredients, and they are filed here as separate records.
Recorded as Tocopherol · dataset record tocopherol · 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.
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 Tocopherol
Usually after seeing vitamin E named on a pore-clogging list, or after reading that it is added to the oils and balms people already suspect. It is also one of the few ingredients here that gets looked up positively — people asking whether it is worth having in a product, rather than whether they need to avoid it.
Where the circulating rating for Tocopherol comes from
Tocopherol occasionally appears on circulating lists with a low-to-middle rating, and those entries are inconsistent with each other about which form they are rating. This project could not trace any of them to a checkable assessment. The inconsistency is itself informative: a scale that assigns different numbers to tocopherol and tocopheryl acetate without citing a study for either is reporting a convention, not a measurement.
Names Tocopherol appears under
Declared as Tocopherol, and also as vitamin E, alpha-tocopherol or dl-alpha-tocopherol. Tocopheryl Acetate is a different declared ingredient with its own record in this dataset, and is the form more commonly used in cosmetics. Mixed tocopherols and Tocopheryl Linoleate are further distinct names and are not in this dataset. Because matching here is by declared name, the form printed on your label decides which record you get.
Recognised in this dataset as Tocopherol, and through the recorded aliases vitamin e, dl-alpha-tocopherol, alpha-tocopherol. 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 tocopherol
Is vitamin E comedogenic?
The sources reviewed here contain no comedogenicity assessment for tocopherol. Before that question can even be asked precisely, it needs to be settled which vitamin E is on the label, because tocopherol and tocopheryl acetate are separate declared ingredients.
Is tocopherol the same as tocopheryl acetate?
No. They are separate declared ingredients with separate records here. Tocopheryl acetate is the more common form in cosmetics, and this tool reports whichever name is printed rather than treating the two as one entry.
Tocopherol is last on my label. Does that mean there is barely any?
Position is a rough hint, not a measurement. Declarations are generally ordered by descending predominance, but ingredients present at one percent or less may be listed in any order after those above that threshold, and colour additives may be listed at the end. A name near the end of a list tells you it is probably below that threshold, and nothing more precise than that.
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).