BB and CC cream for oily skin

Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer is the clear leader for oily skin, with 23 of 23 shoppers saying it stayed put without getting greasy, shiny or sliding. IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream is next at 8 of 12, and the creams behind it drop to even splits or worse, down to 5 of 12 for IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream, the weakest record here. Each record counts just shoppers who said they have oily skin.

  • 220 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Dec 2015 to Oct 2026

Updated . How we count

Does it stay put on oily skin? What shoppers said
  1. Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer 23 said either way
  2. IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream 12 said either way
  3. Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream 12 said either way
  4. IT Cosmetics CC+ Natural Matte Foundation 14 said either way
  5. IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream 12 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for greasiness or sliding. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer Best record Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer 23 of 23 say it stayed put on oily skin See price & reviews on Amazon
What stands out

Coverage draws praise for every cream here, from 19% of Natural Matte Foundation reviews up to 47% of CC+ Cream reviews, so it doesn't explain the gap between the records. Those shares count every review of each cream, not just shoppers with oily skin who stated a result.

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points reviewers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1 Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer

Tarte

BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer

Best for a skin-like finish

23/23 say it stayed put on oily skin

Its record comes from a bigger group of shoppers with oily skin than any other cream here has. Across all 56 of its reviews, 30% praise the coverage and 27% say it looks like skin, while 5% say a shade was hard to find.

What buyers praise

  • Good coverage 30%
  • Looks like skin 27%
  • Lasts all day 20%
  • Has SPF 20%
  • No breakouts 11%

What buyers complain about

  • Hard to find a shade 5%
  • Too expensive 5%
  • Breaks skin out 5%
  • Cakey or heavy 4%
  • Settles into lines 4%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 9 of 9
  • Sephora 14 of 14
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Oily9 of 9
  • Combination5 of 5
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light6 of 6
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 4
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked5 of 5
2

IT Cosmetics

CC+ Cream

8/12 say it stayed put on oily skin

It held up for 8 of 12 shoppers with oily skin, a clear step down from the Tarte cream. 47% of its 59 reviews praise the coverage and 22% say it lasts all day, though 8% call it cakey or heavy.

What buyers praise

  • Good coverage 47%
  • Has SPF 27%
  • Lasts all day 22%
  • Looks like skin 19%
  • Hydrating 15%

What buyers complain about

  • Cakey or heavy 8%
  • Oxidizes or darkens 3%
  • Too expensive 3%
  • Hard to find a shade 3%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 5 of 6
  • Sephora 3 of 6

Share of 59 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

3

Clinique

Moisture Surge CC Cream

6/12 say it stayed put on oily skin

Reviews like the coverage, with 41% of them praising it and 18% saying it looks like skin. Just 6 of 12 shoppers with oily skin said it stayed put, and 8% of its reviews call it cakey or heavy.

What buyers praise

  • Good coverage 41%
  • Hydrating 22%
  • Lasts all day 20%
  • Looks like skin 18%
  • No breakouts 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Cakey or heavy 8%
  • Hard to find a shade 8%
  • Settles into lines 6%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 3 of 6
  • Sephora 3 of 6
  • Brand site 2 of 4 shown, not counted

Share of 49 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

4

IT Cosmetics

CC+ Natural Matte Foundation

6/14 say it stayed put on oily skin

More shoppers with oily skin said it failed than said it stayed put, at 6 of 14. Of its 26 reviews, 19% praise the coverage, while 15% call it cakey or heavy and 8% mention a strong scent.

What buyers praise

  • Good coverage 19%
  • Lasts all day 15%

What buyers complain about

  • Cakey or heavy 15%
  • Strong scent 8%
  • Settles into lines 8%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 6 of 14
  • Brand site 0 of 1 shown, not counted

Share of 26 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

5

IT Cosmetics

Mini CC+ Cream

5/12 say it stayed put on oily skin

Its reviews point to shade trouble and fine lines: 27% say a shade was hard to find and 13% say it settles into lines. On the plus side, 30% praise the coverage.

What buyers praise

  • Good coverage 30%
  • Lasts all day 13%
  • No breakouts 10%
  • Has SPF 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Hard to find a shade 27%
  • Settles into lines 13%
  • Cakey or heavy 13%
  • Strong scent 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 5 of 12
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked3 of 10

Share of 30 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

Where these numbers come from

The 5 products ranked here carry 37,985 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for greasiness or sliding and read the newest matching reviews, up to 40 per product and store, posted between Dec 2015 and Oct 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer Ulta and Sephora (56 reviews counted)
  2. IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream Ulta and Sephora (59 reviews counted)
  3. Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream Ulta and Sephora (49 reviews counted)
  4. IT Cosmetics CC+ Natural Matte Foundation Ulta (26 reviews counted)
  5. IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream Sephora (30 reviews counted)

Questions buyers ask

Which BB or CC cream works for oily skin?

Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer has the best record at 23 of 23, followed by IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream (8 of 12) and Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream (6 of 12). The two IT Cosmetics creams behind them had more failures than successes.

Do IT Cosmetics CC creams work on oily skin?

Shoppers with oily skin were divided. The CC+ Cream got 8 of 12, the Natural Matte Foundation 6 of 14 and the Mini 5 of 12, so none matched the Tarte cream's record.

Is Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream good for oily skin?

It split shoppers with oily skin evenly, at 6 of 12, so expect mixed results. The Tarte cream had a cleaner record at 23 of 23.

Which of these creams are sold on Amazon?

All 5 have official Amazon listings, sold by the brand or by Amazon itself. Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer is the best pick sold on Amazon at 23 of 23, and it is also the leader.

Related problems

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