I’ve tried dozens of nontoxic body oils over the past ten years, and I’m sharing my curated favorites that are actually worth getting. I would repurchase these over and over again. The best body oils are made with skin-nourishing botanical oils and without any harmful or questionable ingredients.

Why Choose Body Oil vs Lotion

I often prefer to apply body oil straight out of a shower than a lotion, and it’s for a number of reasons.

• Body oils are 100% concentrated because they are lotions without water
• No preservatives are needed (since there’s no water content hooray!)
• More value for money (again, not paying for water!)
• Longer shelf life. No water content means it doesn’t expire or go bad as fast.
• Lock in hydration. If you have dry skin, apply a body serum or lotion before oil to add hydration. A body oil provides moisturization but not hydration. It will help seal in and prevent hydration from escaping.
• Better value for money: Body oils last me much longer than lotions. Instead of paying for mostly water, I’m paying for a 100% concentrated formula of plant oils where a little goes a long way.
• Amazing for dry skin and anti-aging. Plant oils are jampacked with vitamins, antioxidants and minerals to deeply nourish skin and fight signs of aging.
• Best hack to making your clean perfume last longer: Applying body oil first is a tried-and-true hack to making your fave perfume last longer. This is because fragrance molecules cling to oil but evaporate faster on dry skin.

Best Way to Use Body Oil

The best way to apply body oil is right after a shower when skin is freshly cleansed and exfoliated. Always apply body oil to damp skin. This helps it absorb faster AND better, while locking in hydration. Otherwise, use a body mist or face toner first and then apply oil.

To maximize the benefits of a body oil, exfoliate in shower using one of my fave natural body scrubs or body tools so you’re applying to fresh skin and not dead skin cells.

If you wear a non-toxic perfume, let the oil absorb for a minute and spritz it directly on the oil for a long lasting scent.

I tried Oak Essentials Dew Body Oil

Oak Essentials’ Dew Body Oil is such a lightweight, fast-absorbing oil for dry skin that’s widely available at ULTA, vegan, cruelty-free with a short and clean ingredient list. The base is certified organic safflower, sunflower, and sesame seed oils, plus borage seed oil and sweet almond oil to soften skin and support the skin barrier. I love the deeply woodsy yet floral scent of orange peel, lavender, rose geranium, cedarwood, vetiver, and balsam copaiba resin that’s PERFECT for fall and colder weather. This feels like a juicy oil to me with a subtle dryness to it that helps it not feel too greasy. I can wear my pajamas pretty quickly after applying this without feeling like it’s sticking to them. It’s on the pricier end, but you can find them on sale at ULTA.

Consistency: Medium weight
Scent: woodsy floral with hint of citrus
Price: $58 for 3.4 oz

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I tried DIME The Glaze

DIME’s The Glaze 7 Summers Body Oil is vegan, cruelty free and made withnourishing plant oils like argan, jojoba, and meadowfoam. It’s like a little vacation in a bottle. It’s scented with DIME’s cult-favorite 7 Summers fragrance, a sweet, sunny blend of juicy pear, lavender blossom, bergamot, blonde woods, and sweet coconut that smells cheerful and warm without being overpowering. It’s definitely a substantial body oil, not the dry or thin kind but you get soft, glowy skin once it fully absorbs. I love smoothing it on right after a shower while my skin is still a little damp. The scent lingers softly all day, so it can easily double as your fragrance.

Consistency: Medium weight
Scent: very floral
Price: $34 for 4 oz

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I tried NERRA Dry Body Oil

This is the best organic body oil in spray form that I’ve tried in the last decade. NERRA makes an exquisite body oil that’s a spray, 100% natural and Cosmos Ecocert Organic certified. This is not a typical oily oil and falls into the dry category because it’s fast absorbing and leaves a natural finish. This is perfect for people who don’t want to rub oil all over their body. It’s got a beautiful organic formula of Argan oil, hibiscus seed oil, Bataua fruit oil, Sacha Inchi oil and reship oil. I looove how incredibly convenient it is to apply. The super fine mist sprays across a generous surface area too so I’m not having to spritz every little inch. I do use my hands to rub it further in but it’s not necessary. The jasmine scent is soo intoxicating.

Consistency: a fine mist
Scent: floral
Price: $72 for 3.1 oz

I tried May Lindstrom The Good Stuff (luxe!)

May Lindstrom’s The Good Stuff is THE most luxurious body oil in clean beauty, and it’s a tried and true favorite in the clean beauty community for a reason. It feels sooo silky and nourishing and has a blend of Macadamia Seed Oil, Olive Fruit Oil, Plum Seed Oil, Jojoba Seed Oil, Seabuckthorn Kernel Extract, and Bulgarian Rose Flower Oil. The best body oil for anti aging! It’s a heavenly blend of cacao, rose, lavender, and ylang-ylang and feels and looks like liquid gold. The Good Stuff is pricey but if I could choose only one product forever it would be this one. The scent is absolutely divine – sensual and sophisticated chocolatey heaven. It’s made entirely with certified organic, wild harvested, fair trade, and raw ingredients. They’ve got a shimmer version and non-shimmer version, but I personally love the shimmer!

Consistency: Medium weight
Scent: chocolatey floral
Price: $160 for 6.8 oz

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I tried Wonder Valley Hinoki Body Oil

I discovered Wonder Valley’s Hinoki Body Oil and now I’m hooked on hinoki scents. This has got Japanese hinoki, Siberian fir, and Cedarwood which makes for the most sensuous woodsy scent ever. The luscious blend of squalane, sea buckthorn, sunflower seed and olive oil are light yet moisturizing. I grab this one more often during the winter because of how incredibly grounding and lusciously hydrating it is. My only complaint is having to vigorously shake this heavy glass bottle to get the oil out instead of being able to use a pump.

Consistency: lightweight
Scent: grounding
Price: $85 for 6.8 oz

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I tried Leahlani Pamplemousse Replenishing Body Oil

I adore Hawaiian brand Leahlani’s Pamplemousse Replenishing Body Oil and have used multiple bottles of this over the years. The Hawaiian scent and ingredients transport me to my favorite place on earth. It’s silky yet deeply moisturizing and has an uplifting, yummy scent of vanilla and citrus. I love that it has heavy duty actives that are good enough for the face like Vitamin C, Astaxanthin, Lupin Seed Extract and Sour Sop Seed Oil. They did not cut any cheap corners with the formulation! Even the glass bottle is super hefty. It feels like a medium-weight oil that is light yet impactful enough to provide long lasting moisturization. Pua Lei Coco Infusion Body Oil is more affordable and has the most quintessential Hawaiian scent.

Leahlani’s Bless Body Balm feels like a lightweight and soft salve balm and melts immediately into an oil on application. It’s got their signature super floral, bright and uplifting Hawaiian Bless scent. This is super travel friendly for summer travels compared to my clunky body butter jars and lotion bottles.

Consistency: Medium weight
Scent: Vanilla citrus floral
Price: $52 for 5 oz

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I tried Saltair Santal Bloom (budget!)

Saltair is a good affordable body oil that’s given me the best value for money so far. It’s got a thoughtful blend of natural ingredients, like fermented saururus, kukui, cacay, moringa and squalane along with a biomimetic blend of plant actives. They’ve got the widest variety of scents to choose from so there’s something for everyone. I personally love Santal Bloom which has notes of Creamy Sandalwood, Amber and Musks. This feels sooo silky and lightweight yet impactful enough to deeply nourish. My skin feels soft and supple after applying.

Consistency: Lightweight
Scent: variety available
Price: $23 for 4 oz

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I tried CYKLAR Vanilla Verve Illuminating Body Oil

CYKLAR is a light, silky body oil with clean fragrance, shimmer and the added perk of a natural tan so you can glow all through winter. This begins in a safflower seed oil base and is infused with Lipidic Botanicals, green coffee seed oil, squalane, and more oils like Meadowfoam, grape seed, and jojoba. I love how fast it absorbs into skin and the pearlescent golden sheen it provides makes it perfect for wearing anything leg-baring during the day. It has the most delicious grounding phthalate-free fragrance with notes of vanilla, tonka bean, Peru balsam, and heliotrope that lasts more than a few hours. The downsides are that it has a couple ingredients I prefer to not see and there’s less product compared to most other body oils. But if you’re looking for a daytime body oil that makes your legs look tan and smell ridiculously good, CYKLAR is one to check out. Below I’m wearing it on my right leg only so you can see the difference.

Consistency: Light and silky
Scent: yummy vanilla
Price: $38 for 3.4 oz

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I tried Saint Jane Beauty Luxury Body Oil

Saint Jane Beauty’s Luxury Body Oil has a blend of cold pressed Rosehip, Raspberry Seed, Grapeseed, Avocado, Jojoba, and Sunflower oils along with 28 omega-rich active florals and exfoliating fruit acid. It’s also got Pink Grapefruit, Blood Orange, and Tangerine deliver a natural source of Vitamin C. I find it to be a deeply moisturizing, medium weight oil that has a subtle and grounding scent. It comes in the chicest packaging I’ve experienced with a body oil.

Consistency: medium-weight
Scent: grounding floral
Price: $58 for 4 oz

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I tried Summer Solace Tallow Mountain Body Oil

For a body oil that goes beyond just moisturization and actually has healing benefits, I recommend a tallow body oil. Summer Solace Tallow makes the most gorgeous tallow-based body oil out there. It’s full of organic plant oils like reship, borage, argan, castor oil and features a transportive blend of mountain botanicals. The scent is so beautifully grounding and calming with vetiver, gardenia, rain-soaked petrichor, honeysuckle, and sacred Indian sandalwood. This is a rich oil that’s so deeply moisturizing and is so well formulated it’s good enough for the face. Summer Solace makes the best and highest quality tallow skincare and is the only tallow brand I completely trust.

Consistency: Rich
Scent: grounding earthy
Price: $95 for 4 oz

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I tried Primally Pure Blue Tansy Body Oil

Primally Pure Blue Tansy Body Oils is made with a blend of cold-pressed oils and essential oils, including organic fractionated coconut oil, kukui nut oil, organic argan oil, organic sweet almond oil, and organic pomegranate seed oil, and scented with organic geranium, blue tansy, and peppermint essential oils. This has a strong fragrant sweet floral scent and pale blue shade from blue tansy. Overall, it’s a very lightweight liquid like oil that’s easy to apply and sinks in relatively quickly.

Price: $26 for 2 oz

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I tried Phlur Beach Skin Body Oil

If you’re looking for a body oil that contains clean perfume and can perform like fine fragrance, I recommend Phlur’s Beach Skin Body Oil. It is soo silky and contains skin nourishing oils like Meadowfoam Seed Oil and jojoba oil. Beach Skin is the perfect warm weather scent and smells like salted air, sand and sun-kissed skin. Sinks in effortlessly and leaves my skin with a subtle shimmer that I can’t wait to show off in warm weather.

Consistency: Lightweight
Scent: Beach skin
Price: $45 for 4 oz

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