The Best Toners for Oily Skin

Toners for Oily Skin: If your skin often touches greasy and you experience the infrequent bout of acne breakouts, you may be experiencing oily skin.

While everyone’s skin typically produces oil thanks to the sebaceous glands (the glands in your skin that naturally crop oil called sebum), some people’s skin produces an excess, leading to oily skin.

People with oily skin remain often inclined to use various products like blotting sheets, refining cleansers, and pore-tightening face masks. Still, toners can be an effective way to combat oils and reduce breakouts without irritating or drying out the skin.

How To Shop For A Toner

When shopping for toner, you’ll want to consider other characteristics of your skin. For example, do you sometimes have dry combination skin? Are you likely to breakouts, or is your skin complex to specific ingredients? (If so, you should do a cover test before regularly using it.)

Various options are available to fit every budget, so cost is another factor to consider when researching.

Best Toners For Oily Skin

Paula’s Choice Toner

Key ingredients: niacinamide, chamomile, hyaluronic acid, ceramides, burdock root extract.

This toner after Paula’s Choice does it all if your skin griefs don’t stop at an extra sheen. Antioxidants, calming plant extracts (like burdock root excerpt, a natural plant that’s a powerhouse of antioxidants), and niacinamide work together to cut down on oiliness while tightening the pores.

It’s also lightweight, refreshes the skin, and delivers light hydration thanks to hyaluronic acid and ceramide, vital ingredients that restore the skin’s moisture barrier.

Additionally, if you sometimes still have traces of makeup leftover after cleansing your skin, this formula can also take care of that. It’s also an easy-to-find choice that won’t break the bank.

Dickinson’s Original Witch Hazel Pore Perfecting Toner

Key ingredients: witch hazel

This budget-friendly drugstore find is excellent for those seeking a more natural option that likely won’t irritate the skin.

Made with natural and distilled witch hazel, an ingredient that reduces skin irritation and inflammation this toner works to remove and balance oil while gently soothing and refreshing the skin without over-drying.

Neutrogena Pore Refining Toner

The key ingredients are witch hazel, beta hydroxy acid, and alpha hydroxy acid.

Another easy-to-find and reasonable drugstore option, this toner from Neutrogena packs in descriptive ingredients like witch hazel, then alpha and beta hydroxy acids, which actively work to minimize pores and reduce breakouts while eliminating oil.

This hypoallergenic formulation is also great for skin that’s more sensitive since it’s not overdrying, allowing the skin to feel refreshed and smooth with each use.

Renée Rouleau Elderberry Soothing Toner

Key ingredients: elderberry fruit extract, sodium PCA, sorbitol-disaccharide gum-1

If along with oleaginousness, your skin is sensitive to specific ingredients, this is the toner for you. For example, Elderberry fruit extract is a gentle ingredient that provides potent antioxidants to combat excess oil and impurities.

And sodium PCA (a naturally occurring amino acid) binds to water to retain moisture in the skin. Meanwhile, sorbitol-saccharide gum-1 is a natural sugar that soothes and hydrates.

“Toners are good for oily skin because they penetrate the pores to provide a more thorough cleansing and help balance your complexion,” says board-certified dermatologist Dr.