What a —/5 rating means
Because no dependable rating exists, judge Beef Tallow by how your own skin responds rather than by a number. The absence of a score is not the same as a zero — it simply means the ingredient has not been reliably tested on the classic comedogenic scale.
About Beef Tallow
It is a plant- or seed-derived oil, valued for the emollient, conditioning feel it gives a formula. Rendered beef fat, revived recently as a whole-food moisturiser and heavily promoted on social media. It is a saturated animal triglyceride, chemically closer to lanolin and mink oil than to a plant seed oil. It is named on the CLEARSTEM and AcneClinicNYC pore-clogging ingredient lists, but neither publishes 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.
On a label it can read as Beef Tallow, Tallow, Bos Taurus Tallow, Rendered Beef Fat — worth knowing when you scan an ingredient deck.
Beef Tallow in makeup and skincare
In makeup it turns up in cream blushes, tinted balms, and hydrating foundations; in skincare, in face oils and cleansing balms.
If you deal with fungal acne (malassezia folliculitis) rather than ordinary clogged pores, note that Beef Tallow is among the fatty-acid or ester-type ingredients that community sources commonly avoid — a separate concern from its comedogenic score, and one with weaker evidence behind it.
Beef Tallow comedogenic FAQ
Is Beef Tallow comedogenic?
There is no established answer. No source we cite gives Beef Tallow a comedogenic rating, and a missing score is not the same as a 0. If you are acne-prone, watch how your skin responds.
What is the comedogenic rating of Beef Tallow?
Beef Tallow is unrated on the 0–5 comedogenic scale. Beef Tallow is one of 26 ingredients, out of the 216 in our dataset, that none of our cited sources gives a comedogenic number, so we leave it unrated instead of guessing.
Is Beef Tallow pore-clogging?
Without a published rating we cannot say either way. Its position on the ingredient list still matters: near the end of a label it is present in small amounts.