Ingredient · INCI listed
Castor Oil
A thick, ricinoleic-acid-rich oil prized for its slip and shine in lip and cleansing products. An effective softener and structurer, though heavy and tacky on its own.
Data summary
Products containing
10
Most common in
6 products
lip cares
Typical pairing
Petrolatum
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In the catalog
Castor Oil by the numbers.
The DermFND database tracks 10 products formulated with castor oil, and it's strongly concentrated in lip cares — 6 products, 60% of where it shows up. Formulations carrying it score 74/100 on average (above the catalog norm); the strongest is QV Lip Balm SPF 30 at 83/100.
Of those, 4 products score 80 or higher in our analysis. It co-occurs most with Petrolatum (3 shared formulas) and Avobenzone (2 shared formulas). The median price of a castor oil product here is $22.
Where it shows up
