I Am a Body-Oil Enthusiast and These Are My Ultimate Favorites
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There’s something about the way the best body oils luxuriously ooze into the skin and leave it nourished. Most lotions wish they could achieve that level of sheen. Sure, body lotion could never be replaced (in our hearts and vanities) because it’s a signature nourishment product, but oils are another great option to further moisturize your skin.
Like any beauty product, a good oil can be hard to come by when weighing all the factors that would make it the best. Is it non-greasy, nonstaining, and non-sticky? The good news is: I’ve tested my fair share and I can safely say there’s a body oil for everyone. Here are 31 I absolutely love and recommend. Yes, I tested all 31 of them.
Our top picks:
The Cult Favorite
Osea Undaria Algae Body Oil
This seaweed blended oil from Osea is everyone’s favorite because of how it richly nourishes the skin and leaves it with a long-lasting glow. It’s nongreasy and doesn’t stain, which is hard to find with an oil this thick.
The Melting One
MUTHA Body Oil
Watching the way this oil melts into the skin is like watching a thirst-quenched person sip water. Your skin soaks this citrusy oil up, leaving it incredibly plush. It’s a great post-shower oil that lasts all day and even longer when paired with the brand’s body butter.
The Most Lightweight
Oui The People Hydrating Body Gloss
Its lightness doesn’t stop this Oui the People body oil from being deeply moisturizing. This serumlike body gloss hydrates and brightens while being fast-absorbing.
If You Need To Strengthen Your Skin Barrier
Vaseline Radiant X Replenishing and Hydrating Body Oil
Vaseline’s Radiant X line has an array of products that deeply penetrate the skin for ultimate moisture. This oil absorbs into the skin with a blend of 1% lipids, that’s just enough to soften the skin while repairing dullness and dryness.
If You Love Baby Oil
Vacation Baby Oil SPF 30
Do you remember being lathered in baby oil as a kid? I do, and I hated it. However, something about baby oil being bottled up in an SPF packed formula that makes my skin glow like butter makes me love this oil. It hasn’t left my beach bag since it launched.
More tried-and-true options:
The Luxury Option
CHANEL COCO MADEMOISELLE The Body Oil
And my current favorite! When you want a lingering scent throughout the day, pick up Chanel’s body oil. The jojoba-infused oil nourishes the skin while the amber scent seeps into it. Lock it in by layering your favorite perfume over it, and you’ll have the best-smelling and best-feeling skin all day long.
The Best-Smelling One
Senteurs d’Orient Fleurs d’Oasis The Oil
This oil smells so good that customers beg the brand to launch the scent in a perfume. With musky notes and hints of luscious jasmine, this oil will have you ditching your perfumes. It might be made with 14 essential oils, but it’s lightweight and leaves the skin with an intense softness. Bonus point: It’s multipurpose, so you can also use it as a hair oil to add the perfect shine.
The OG
Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Moisturizing Body Oil
Before all of these body oils and shimmers hit the market, we had good ol’ Palmers. The cocoa-butter formula has been around for decades, and it does the job without being overly sticky or greasy.
The SPF Option
Supergoop! Glow Oil SPF 50 PA++++
Supergoop’s sunscreen has slowly become a favorite among the beauty community, but its glow oil is just as amazing. With SPF 50 and a quick absorbing formula, it leaves the skin glowing with a subtle shimmer.
The Best Oil in Balm Form
Malin+Goetz Meadowfoam Oil Balm
I’ve tried a lot of body butters that give my skin the nourishment oils do, but I’ve never experienced a balm like this. The second it hits the skin, it melts into an oil-like texture that effortlessly glides all over for a soothing feeling and a natural sheen.
The Serum-Like Oil
Nécessaire Body Oil
I like to think of this body oil like a silky serum. Its blend of cold-pressed oils can transform even the driest skin into a dewier barrier.
The Best for Expecting Moms
Bio-Oil Skincare Oil
Expecting moms love how soothing this is on their growing belly. Not only does it keep the skin smooth, but it also aids in reducing the appearance of stretch marks.
If You Want Want Something Firming
OLEHENRIKSEN Firmly Yours Dry Body Oil with Peptides
Peptides have been a trendy ingredient lately. Similar to collagen, it improves the elasticity of the skin. This body oil from Olehenriksen is one of the few that’s blended with peptides to lock in moisture and ensure firmer skin.
The Dry Option
Tocca Dry Body Oil
Tocca is known for fragrance products like candles and perfumes, but this year the brand took its signature fragrance and bottled it up as a dry body oil that’s lightly moisturizing. It’s applied through a spritz applicator like a perfume, but the scent is deeply embedded into the oil. Layering a fragrance with similar notes over it is a great way to leave a lasting aroma wherever you go.
The One TikTok Will Make You Buy
Nourishing Body Oil
This body oil has been the latest viral sensation, so viral that it’s always sold out with a waitlist. The beloved oil is famous for it’s coconut vanilla scent, it smells like a beach in a bottle and quickly absorbed into the skin for a dewy finish,
If You Like to Sparkle
Tom Ford Soleil Blanc Shimmering Body Oil
Prepare the Twilight vampire-skin jokes because sparkle is an understatement for this body oil. The silky velvet texture glides across the skin and leaves it glistening.
The One You Pack for Vacation
Cay Skin Isle Body Oil
Winnie Harlow’s squalane-blend glow oil doesn’t only lock in moisture to the skin, but it’s also packed with SPF 30, so you get the best of both worlds for your vacation.
The Fast-Absorbing One
Augustinus Bader Body Oil
Augustinus Bader has some of the richest moisturizers on the market, and it also has a body oil. Similar to its skin-care products, this body oil will instantly soften your skin and leave it with a renewed barrier.
The Anti-aging One
Tata Harper Revitalizing Body Oil
Tata Harper isn’t stopping at facial products for anti-aging. This body oil replenishes the skin with an abundance of vitamins and nutrients to leave it feeling smooth and youthful.
The Warm-Scented One
Summer Fridays Pool Time Glowing Body Oil
You’ll want to pull this one out for your summer Fridays. Between its warm vanilla scent and glowing formula, you’ll get tons of compliments.
The Best for Sensitive Skin
Avene Skin Care Oil
Whether your skin is stressed or just sensitive, this protective oil seeps in to leave the body soothed and restored thanks to its unique formulation of ingredients.
When You Need A Meditative Oil
Tatcha Hinoki Hydrating Body Oil
If you use your body-care time to focus and unplug, then consider turning it into a meditative moment. Tatcha’s oil is blended with a forest awakening essential oil, proven to reduce stress and improve well being. It also deeply smoothens out the skin’s dry patches.
If You Love the Bum Bum Cream
Sol de Janeiro Bum Bum Firmeza Firming & Debloating Body Oil
This oil depuffs and firms the skin while leaving it with Sol de Janeiro’s signature warm scent. Paired with lymphatic-drainage massage, this oil can also work to decrease bloating. While the lymphatic drainage massage isn’t included with your purchase, it’s a good thing to know. You’re welcome!
The Vitamin Packed One
Costa Brazil Óleo Para O Corpo Kaya Jungle Firming Body Oil
Costa Brazil’s oil is rich in vitamins, including vitamin E and magnesium to improve the elasticity and texture of the skin while locking in moisture.
The Healing One
Deon Libra Body Glaze
This adaptogen-packed oil serum has ingredients like holy basil to fight acne and ashwagandha to calm the skin. In addition to the blend of healing ingredients, the thick texture lathers on the skin, leaving it dewy and glazed with a reflecting glow. Since it’s so dewy, I prefer this for an extra-glazed look on vacation or during the summer.
The Rose-Scented One
Parfums de Marly Delina Body Oil
My No. 1 piece of advice to people who want to try fragrances, but may not be really to fully commit to the splurge, is to buy the body oil in the scent of the fragrance you want. Parfums de Marly’s cult-favorite warm rosy Delina is a sensual, feminine fragrance that is beloved, but it is pricey. The body oil with the same exact notes is a quarter of the price and smells identical to the fragrance while also adding a glow to the body without a greasy finish. It’s a two-in-one beauty buy.
If You Love to Layer
BODY by TPH Anything Glows Vegan Body Oil
Taraji P. Henson’s line of body care products is protective and nourishing and smells really good. This lightweight oil includes a blend of avocado oil and rosehip oil to add a layer of protection to the skin while retaining moisture. It’s the perfect base for layering other body products or your favorite warm fragrance on top.
The Sensitive-Area-Approved One
Fur Skincare Fur Oil
Putting body products in intimate areas can be tricky and unsafe. Fur’s quick-drying oil is gynecologist-approved. The blend of oils is designed to soften hairs and clear pores for fewer ingrown hairs and an overall soft and healthy skin barrier.
If You Love a Shower Oil
L’Occitane Cleansing and Softening Shower Oil
When my skin is extra dry and needs an influx of moisture, I start in the shower with an oil. L’Occitane’s sweet almond-oil body wash isn’t only a silky cleanser that nourishes the skin with just one application; my favorite thing about the cleanser is that it leaves your body soft following the shower with no room for your skin to become dry or dehydrated. Once it’s locked in with other oils, it leaves the skin nourished for an even longer period of time.
If You Love Baccarat
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 Sparkling Body Oil
Another scented body oil that smells identical to the fragrance is Baccarat Rouge’s 540 body oil. The popular amber-and-woody scent seeps into the body for a long-lasting effect. The oil is also made with sparkles to keep the skin subtly shimmery, and the sparkles are transferproof.
The Earthy-Scented Option
Caudalie Moisturizing Fig Body Oil Elixir
Caudalie’s facial products are all efficacious, and its body oil is no different. It has a blend of oils, including prickly pear, grapeseed, and argan oils that seal in moisture, but also repair firmness in the skin. I love using this post–lymphatic massage. If you don’t like forestlike smells, you may not like this, but the nourishment and increase of elasticity in the skin trumps the scent.