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foundation primers for oily skin

Sephora customers often prefer the following products when searching for foundation primers for oily skin.

If you have oily skin, you know that finding a foundation primer that works with your skin can be a challenge. Fortunately, there are plenty of primers that would work with oily skin. Primers are facial products that provide a smooth stage for makeup application and help keep your makeup last longer.

$42.00

It's probably a great primer, just not meant for me...Great for Oily Skin!!!...Not for oily skin

What it is: A clear primer gel that smooths skin and pores so your makeup lasts, while vitamins A and E protect your skin.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, phthalates, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also vegan and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Reduce the appearance of fine lines and pores while locking in your makeup with this primer. Lightweight and oil-free, it gives you a flawless finish, while antioxidants and vitamins A and E help protect your skin from pollutants, damage, and stress.

$60.00

Favorite Primer...Feels really nice on my face and helps keep my makeup on throughout the day. I have oily skin. This doesn't really do much to keep the oil away so I usually use this in combination with another smashbox primer that helps to mattify my skin....I love this primer because it’s silky soft, has no smell and let’s me put on any foundation, bb cream and concealer without any caking, blotches, or unevenness.

What it is: A clear primer gel that smooths skin and pores so your makeup lasts, while vitamins A and E protect your skin.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, phthalates, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also vegan and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Reduce the appearance of fine lines and pores while locking in your makeup with this primer. Lightweight and oil-free, it gives you a flawless finish, while antioxidants and vitamins A and E help protect your skin from pollutants, damage, and stress.

Clinical Results: In a consumer study on 103 women after 1 week of use:
- 93% said they saw blurred imperfections
- 93% said they saw smoother skin<

$38.00

No piling, no tackiness, no unusually oily skin either. This serum is indeed RICH, I’m kind of obsessed with it now! ...This primer is a cream-to-oil formula that works wonders for normal, dry, combination, and oily skin types.

What it is: A gripping cream to oil primer that can be worn alone or to lock in makeup.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Dryness, Dullness, and Uneven Texture

Formulation: Liquid

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Prickly Pear Seed Oil: Provides hydration and supports skin barrier.
- Yam Root Extract: Supports skin elasticity.
- Japanese Camelia Oil: Visibly improve skin texture.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This multi-benefit primer serum melts into skin, transforming from a lightweight cream to oil texture that’s hydrating, nourishing, and supporting. It also works to i

Yves Saint LaurentTouche Eclat Blur Face Primer

Size: 1 oz/ 30 mL·ITEM: 1713114

Color: Blur Primer Gold - brightens and evens skintone

2.3K Reviews

$56.00

good for oily skin, and can hide pores....Excellent Primer...I absolutely love this primer. There’s nothing like it. Amazing for oily skin.

What it is: A non-greasy, lightweight makeup primer with light-infused pigments and four nourishing oils that blur imperfections and smooths the look of skin.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Corn Oil, Apricot Kernel Oil, Passiflora oil, and Rice Bran Oil: Nurture and leave skin feeling soft.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, and phthalates.

DermalogicaSkinperfect Primer SPF 30

ITEM: 2221190

Size: 0.75 oz/ 22 mL

31 Reviews

$58.00

Holy Grail Primer...My makeup always looks perfect when using this. Also, I have oily skin and this primer has held up despite it not being an oil control primer. ...perfect primer and spf...This one feels great on the skin and adds a small layer of evening out skin tone ahead of applying foundation.

What it is: A primer that helps smooth fine lines, brighten, and prep for makeup application and flawless skin.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Loss of Firmness and Elasticity, and Dullness and Uneven Texture

Formulation: Gel

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Titanium Dioxide (4%): Protects skin from UVA and UVB radiation.
- Zinc Oxide (14%): Creates a protective barrier and deflects UVA and UVB rays off.
- Hyaluronic Acid: Hydrates the skin.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, and hydroquinone.

SEPHORA COLLECTIONMattify + Refine Primer

Size: 1.01 oz/ 30 mL·ITEM: 2413326

26 Reviews

$16.00

great product for hiding oily skin...I love matte primers because I have oily skin around my T zone. ...Super affordable, helps with oily skin to give that matte look.

What it is: A lightweight gel-cream primer that mattifies your skin, extends makeup wear, and controls shine for up to 10 hours.

Skin Type:
Oily and Combination

Concerns: Oil and Pores

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Witch Hazel Extract: Refines the look of pores.
- White Tea Extract: Helps protect skin from environmental factors.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of mineral oil. It is also vegan.

What Else You Need to Know: This mattifying gel-cream primer dries to a breathable, powder-like, natural-matte finish that is transparent on skin. It extends your makeup application and controls shine on combination to oily and even sensitive skin types. Plus it's non-comedogenic.

$36.00

Great for oily skin. Goes on smooth and silky. It's not grippy and hard to apply like some mattifying primers....Great for oily skin...It is songreat for my oily skin, I only use it in the zones I usually get oily!

What it is: A mattifying primer for combination-to-oily skin that delivers maximum all-day shine control while improving and extending the wear of foundation.

Skin Type: Normal, Combination, and Oily

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Blue Agave Extract: Helps to mattify the skin.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is oil-free and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Mattify skin, fight shine all day, and smooth the look of pores without feeling tight or dry with the Pro Filt'r Mattifying Primer. Paired with Pro Filt'r foundation (sold separately), this oil-free primer—made with Blue Agave Extract and blurring powder—helps makeup blend better, last longer, and stay fresh all day without caking.

La MerThe Perfecting Primer

ITEM: 2359206

Size: 1.4 oz/ 40 mL

7 Reviews

$100.00

Absolutely love this primer, my foundation just glides on and lasts. I have used with the La Mer soft fluid foundation, but also with other brands and love it with each one...I wear it with La Mer foundation. Part of the reason why I bought this one is that though La Mer foundation is a perfect match for my skin tone, It does transfer easily on it own.

What it is: A primer that visibly hydrates, plumps, and blurs imperfections for a smooth, soft-focus effect.

Skin Type:
Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES.

What Else You Need to Know: This hydrating primer quickly blurs visible imperfections for a fresh, soft-focus effect. Create a soft, ultra-smooth canvas for makeup, or visibly amplify your skin’s bare beauty with improved-looking tone, texture, and translucency.

$42.00

It is light weight. I have oily skin and I did not notice anything different in my skin. ...My make up also stayed on longer and wasn’t cakey at all. Highly recommend for oily skin babes.

What it is: A primer with a soft-focus finish that smooths the look of fine lines and wrinkles while visibly firming skin over time.

Skin Type: Normal, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, and Loss of Firmness and Elasticity

Formulation: Lightweight Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- S6Pro Complex™: Is a proprietary blend of prebiotics and probiotic extracts.
- Marine Algae and Collagen Amino Acids: Support visible firmness and tightness.
- Peptides and Grape Extract: Minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is gluten-free and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This primer with peptides, co

$34.00

This is a great product for oily skin. my skin is very dry and I like a more dewy makeup look so this is not for me, but it’s does an amazing job at blurring you’re pores and gives you a really smooth base definitely recommend for people with oily skin but if you’re more on the dry side skip this one....The primer for oily skin...What I really like is that it smooths out my big pores, and helps my make up stays longer on my super oily skin. Took out one star because I didn’t see skin brighten effect that they claimed.

What it is: A cooling, face-priming gel that visibly smooths and brightens skin while creating a makeup-gripping base.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Pores, Dullness, and Oiliness

Formulation: Lightweight Gel

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Probiotic Extracts: Enhance visible smoothness and support skin’s barrier.
- Yuzu: Visibly brightens.
- Willowherb: Soothes blemish-prone skin.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is gluten-free and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This clean, effective priming gel feels cooling and refreshing to apply. It’s dermatologist tested and non-comedogenic, is silicone-free, and does not contai

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