What a —/5 rating means
Because no dependable rating exists, judge Sunflower Butter 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 Sunflower Butter
It is a rich plant butter that melts at skin temperature, prized for cushiony moisture. A solidified sunflower-oil butter used in body balms. Worth separating from plain sunflower oil, which rates 0 and is one of the safest oils on this grid — the butter is a different, heavier material. 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.
On a label it can read as Sunflower Butter, Helianthus Annuus Seed Butter, Sunflower Seed Butter — worth knowing when you scan an ingredient deck.
Sunflower Butter in makeup and skincare
You'll meet it in stick foundations, cream products, and rich lip colour, as well as body and face creams.
If you deal with fungal acne (malassezia folliculitis) rather than ordinary clogged pores, note that Sunflower Butter 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.