Face oil for combination skin

Fresh Seaberry Face Oil has the best record for combination skin, with 24 of 26 shoppers saying it hydrated their dry areas without making their oily areas greasy. Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil follows at 17 of 20 and is the best pick sold on Amazon, since we could not confirm an Amazon listing for the leader. Each record counts just shoppers who said they have combination skin.

  • 244 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Jan 2017 to Jul 2026

Updated . How we count

Did it hydrate dry areas without making oily ones greasy? What shoppers said
  1. Fresh Seaberry Face Oil 26 said either way
  2. Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil 20 said either way
  3. Josie Maran Pure Argan Oil 24 said either way
  4. The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil 27 said either way
  5. Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Facial Oil 22 said either way
  6. Sunday Riley U.F.O. Face Oil 16 said either way
  7. Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil 16 said either way

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

Best record Fresh Seaberry Face Oil 24 of 26 say it hydrated their dry areas without making their oily areas greasy
Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil Best pick on Amazon Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil 17 of 20 say it hydrated their dry areas without making their oily areas greasy See price & reviews on Amazon
What stands out

Cost is a recurring complaint: 17% of Biossance reviews, 13% of Drunk Elephant reviews and 15% of Sunday Riley Luna reviews say the oil costs too much.

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

Fresh

Seaberry Face Oil

24/26 say it hydrated their dry areas without making their oily areas greasy

In its 30 reviews, 17% say it soaks in quickly and 13% say a little goes far, though 7% mention a strong smell.

What buyers praise

  • Absorbs quickly 17%
  • A little goes far 13%
  • Works under makeup 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Strong smell 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 24 of 26
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light8 of 9
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 3
  • Medium-tan to tan3 of 3

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

2 Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil

Biossance

Vitamin C Rose Face Oil

17/20 say it hydrated their dry areas without making their oily areas greasy

Of its 30 reviews, 33% mention a glow, 27% say it soaks in quickly and 20% say a little goes far.

What buyers praise

  • Gives a glow 33%
  • Absorbs quickly 27%
  • A little goes far 20%
  • Gentle on skin 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 17%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 17 of 20
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light8 of 9
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 6
  • Medium-tan to tan3 of 3
3

Josie Maran

Pure Argan Oil

Best for wearing under makeup

20/24 say it hydrated their dry areas without making their oily areas greasy

It gets praise for working under makeup in 10% of its 30 reviews, though 7% say it costs too much.

What buyers praise

  • Absorbs quickly 13%
  • Works under makeup 10%
  • Gives a glow 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 20 of 24
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light14 of 18
  • Light-medium to medium6 of 6

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

4 The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil

The Ordinary

Rose Hip Seed Oil

Best for good value

22/27 say it hydrated their dry areas without making their oily areas greasy

More shoppers with combination skin stated a result for it than for any other oil here, 27 in all, and 11% of its 55 reviews call it good value.

What buyers praise

  • Good value 11%
  • Gives a glow 9%
  • Gentle on skin 7%
  • Absorbs quickly 7%
  • A little goes far 5%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 8 of 9
  • Sephora 14 of 18
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light6 of 9
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 3
5 Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Facial Oil

Drunk Elephant

Virgin Marula Facial Oil

16/22 say it hydrated their dry areas without making their oily areas greasy

Its 6 misses were mostly breakouts, though 23% of its 30 reviews mention a glow.

What buyers praise

  • Gives a glow 23%
  • Absorbs quickly 23%
  • Good value 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 13%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 16 of 22
  • Brand site 11 of 11 shown, not counted
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light11 of 15
  • Light-medium to medium1 of 3
  • Medium-tan to tan4 of 4
6 Sunday Riley U.F.O. Face Oil

Sunday Riley

U.F.O. Face Oil

12/16 say it hydrated their dry areas without making their oily areas greasy

Cost splits opinion on this oil, with 7% of its 30 reviews calling it good value and 7% saying it costs too much, while 10% say it soaks in quickly.

What buyers praise

  • Absorbs quickly 10%
  • Gentle on skin 7%
  • Good value 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 12 of 16
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light9 of 10
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 4
7

Sunday Riley

Luna Sleeping Night Oil

10/16 say it hydrated their dry areas without making their oily areas greasy

A strong smell comes up in 10% of its 39 reviews, and its 6 misses mostly said it broke them out.

What buyers praise

  • Good value 8%
  • Gives a glow 8%
  • A little goes far 5%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 15%
  • Strong smell 10%
  • Stings or irritates 5%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 0 of 2
  • Sephora 10 of 14
  • Brand site 2 of 3 shown, not counted
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light3 of 5
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 4
  • Medium-tan to tan2 of 3

Share of 39 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

Where these numbers come from

The 7 products ranked here carry 24,364 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for greasiness or dryness and read the newest matching reviews, up to 40 per product and store, posted between Jan 2017 and Jul 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. Fresh Seaberry Face Oil Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  2. Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  3. Josie Maran Pure Argan Oil Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  4. The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil Ulta and Sephora (55 reviews counted)
  5. Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Facial Oil Ulta and Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  6. Sunday Riley U.F.O. Face Oil Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  7. Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil Ulta and Sephora (39 reviews counted)

Questions buyers ask

Which face oil works for combination skin?

Fresh Seaberry Face Oil has the best record (24 of 26), followed by Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil (17 of 20), Josie Maran Pure Argan Oil (20 of 24) and The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil (22 of 27), which sit close together. Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Facial Oil (16 of 22) and Sunday Riley U.F.O. Face Oil (12 of 16) come next, also close together. Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil has the weakest record at 10 of 16.

Which of these face oils are sold on Amazon?

Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil, The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil, Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Facial Oil and Sunday Riley U.F.O. Face Oil are sold on Amazon by the brand or Amazon itself, and Biossance Vitamin C Rose Face Oil is the best pick sold on Amazon. We could not confirm an Amazon listing for the leader, Fresh Seaberry Face Oil, and we found no official Amazon listing for Josie Maran Pure Argan Oil, so neither has a buy link here. Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil has no buy link here, because too few shoppers reported a good result for us to recommend it.

How many shoppers are behind each record?

The second number in each record is the group size. It runs from 16 shoppers each for Sunday Riley U.F.O. Face Oil and Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil to 27 for The Ordinary Rose Hip Seed Oil. The order builds in group size, so a record from a bigger group counts for more than the same share from a smaller one.

Do these records test what is in each face oil?

These records are not a test of ingredients. The counts are what shoppers with combination skin said after using each oil, not a measure of how your skin will react, so follow the label directions on whichever one you pick.

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