Skip to content
Healthy&Herbal

Laureth-4

Laureth-4

Highly comedogenic surfactant.

Laureth-4 in its raw form

How solid is the pore-clogging number


Laureth-4 rates 5 of 5 — strongly occlusive; widely avoided by acne-prone users. The rating is graded established. Traceable to published comedogenicity testing and consistent across sources.

It describes the raw ingredient in isolation. In a finished product, how much is present and where it sits in the list matter just as much. Check a whole label to see it in context.