Is Phenoxyethanol Comedogenic?
Phenoxyethanol is rated 0/5 in published comedogenicity lists — rated low on published lists.
What the rating describes
Preservative, non-comedogenic.
A comedogenicity rating is a 0–5 score assigned in published ingredient testing. A 0/5 places Phenoxyethanol in the lower part of those tables. The score describes the raw ingredient as tested — not a finished formula, where concentration, the rest of the ingredient list, and how the product is used all differ.
Position on a label matters too: ingredients listed near the front are usually present in larger amounts than those near the end.
Where the rating comes from
Ratings on this site come from published comedogenicity literature in the Fulton 1989 lineage — the 0–5 tables compiled from ingredient testing and reproduced across dermatology reference lists since. Where sources disagree, we keep the higher-caution value and say so. We never publish an invented number: ingredients without published data appear as “not in our database yet”.
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