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Cocoglycerides

What Cocoglycerides is & what it does

Cocoglycerides is a soft emollient made from coconut oil. It conditions and smooths the skin, helps reduce water loss, and gives sunscreens a creamy, easy-to-spread feel. It also helps blend oily and watery parts of a formula, improving overall texture.

What is Cocoglycerides and what does it do in sunscreen?

Cocoglycerides is a coconut-derived emollient. In a sunscreen it conditions and softens the skin, helps slow water loss, and gives the product a smooth, creamy, easy-to-spread texture. It also helps the oily and watery parts of the formula blend together for a more uniform feel.

Is Cocoglycerides safe?

Yes, it is considered safe for topical use. It is a mild, coconut-derived emollient used to soften skin and improve texture, and it is well tolerated by most skin types. It is the kind of conditioning ingredient that appears in many everyday lotions and sunscreens, including the products in our catalog that use it.

Does Cocoglycerides clog pores?

Generally no. It is not flagged as comedogenic in our data. As a coconut-derived emollient it is lighter than raw coconut oil, but people who are very acne-prone and react to coconut-based ingredients may want to watch how their skin responds. For most people it is a smoothing ingredient that does not cause breakouts.

Is Cocoglycerides natural or synthetic?

It is derived from a natural source, coconut oil, then processed into a refined emollient. So it sits between fully natural and synthetic: the starting material is plant oil, but it is purified and standardized for use in skincare. This makes it predictable and gentle in formulas.

What else is Cocoglycerides called?

On a label it appears by its INCI name, Cocoglycerides. It is essentially a coconut-oil-derived glyceride blend used as an emollient, so you may see it described informally as a coconut-derived skin conditioner. It usually sits among the oils and emollients on the ingredient list.

Sunscreens with Cocoglycerides

We rate 139 sunscreens that contain it, showing the top 10 by overall score:

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