Ingredient · cooling

Camphor

Camphor is a cooling agent: it gives a fresh, cold feel on the skin. Pori's ingredient rules flag it for caution on every skin type.

Camphor at a glance

FunctionCooling
Comedogenic rating0/5
Irritation potentialModerate
Also listed asNone
How commonOn 139 of 21,918 product labels in Pori's copy of Open Beauty Facts

Is Camphor good for my skin type?

These ratings come from the same fixed rules Pori's ingredient scanner uses, applied to a typical profile for each skin type. Your own result in the app also weighs your scan results and concerns.

Skin typeRatingWhy
NormalUse with cautionCooling
DryUse with cautionCooling
OilyUse with cautionCooling
CombinationUse with cautionCooling
SensitiveUse with cautionCooling

Is Camphor comedogenic?

It has a comedogenic rating of 0 out of 5 in Pori's ingredient database, so it's unlikely to clog pores. Ratings like this come from older tests on single ingredients, and a finished product with it isn't necessarily pore-clogging. A 2006 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology found that finished products made with comedogenic ingredients were not necessarily comedogenic, so treat the number as a hint, not a verdict.

How do I check a product with Camphor?

Scan the barcode or photograph the ingredient list with Pori's ingredient scanner (a Pro feature). It rates every ingredient for your skin type, flags fragrance, pore-clogging and irritating ingredients, and gives the product an overall match score. It's a guide to ingredients, not a diagnosis, so see a dermatologist about any reaction.

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Ingredient data from Pori's ingredient database; product counts from Open Beauty Facts (ODbL). General information, not medical advice.