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Avocado Oil
Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil · Persea Gratissima Oil · Persea GratissimaBarrier
A heavy, slow-absorbing oil for very dry skin and balms. High in oleic acid, so it’s a poor fit for fungal acne.
What it does
It’s heavy and mostly oleic acid, with vitamin E and a pleasant feel. It suits very dry skin and is common in balms. Its oleic acid makes it a poorer fit for fungal acne (small, itchy, same-size bumps), as with olive and marula oil.
The EU’s ingredient database lists it as a skin conditioner, its general term for an ingredient that keeps skin in good condition.European Commission, CosIng (© European Union, CC BY 4.0) · uses put in plain words by Drop ↗
The evidence, graded
expert consensusFungal acne is Malassezia folliculitis — an overgrowth of a yeast already living in normal skin flora, commonly mistaken for ordinary acne. In a culture dish the yeast grows only when fatty acids longer than C10 are added, because it cannot make its own. That is why Drop holds lipid-rich products back while you have this flagged. No source Drop has read tested an oil on skin, set an upper chain length, or showed squalane, MCT or mineral oil to be safe.Rubenstein 2014 · Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology ↗ Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
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