Benefits Below are some of the biggest benefits of mineral oil, backed by science! Comedogenicity: Mineral oil has built a decades-long reputation for being comedogenic and pore-clogging, which is by-and-large undeserved. This factoid/marketing claim arose from animal studies in the 1970s, where rabbits were used to gauge the comedogenicity of mineral oils. Even then, on … Continue reading Magical Mineral Oil!