Best Body Oils in Australia (2026)

Body oil is the one skincare step that gets easier in an Australian house. You step out of the shower already damp, and a few pumps of oil does in ten seconds what a lotion needs a minute of rubbing to do. The catch is that search results for body oil mix moisturising oils with massage, shimmer and tanning products.

So this guide covers moisturising body oils only. Massage oils are out: they are built to stay slippery for a long glide, which is exactly what you do not want before you put a shirt on. Shimmer and glow oils are out: they are a cosmetic finish that transfers onto everything you sit on. Tanning and gradual-tan oils are a different aisle again, and we cover those in our fake tan guide. What is left is eight bottles you can buy on Amazon Australia, from about $7 to about $60.

What is the best body oil in Australia right now?

For most people the answer is the Weleda Harmonising Body Oil Wild Rose. It is a wild rose, sweet almond and organic jojoba blend in a 100 mL bottle, it is certified natural by NATRUE, and it carries the highest shopper rating of our eight picks at 4.7 out of 5, tied with The Jojoba Company. It smells like damask rose rather than like a chemist, which is most of why people rebuy it.

If you hate the feeling of oil sitting on your skin, buy the Aveeno Daily Moisturising Body Oil Mist instead. It is a dry-touch spray built on oat oil and jojoba, it is the most-reviewed pick in this guide by a wide margin, and it is the one you can spray on and dress over almost immediately.

On a tight budget, the Palmer's Coconut Oil Formula Body Oil is the cheapest of our eight picks and the one most Australians have already smelled: coconut oil, green coffee extract, vitamin E, 150 mL, and a coconut scent that is not subtle.

How do our eight body oil picks compare?

Everything below is a moisturising body oil listed on Amazon Australia at the time of writing. Prices move, so treat the last column as a start point.

How did we choose these body oils?

• Moisturisers only. Every pick is sold as a body oil for hydration, not as a massage oil, a shimmer oil or a tanning product.
• Live Australian listings. Each bottle was confirmed in stock on Amazon Australia with its buy-box price at the time of drafting.
• Real shopper feedback. Star ratings and review counts come from the live Amazon Australia listing, and every pick clears a meaningful review base.
• One bottle per brand, spread across formats and budgets, so the eight picks are not the same product with different labels.

Best body oil overall: Weleda Harmonising Body Oil Wild Rose

If you want one bottle on the shelf and no further thinking, this is it. Weleda blends organic wild rose oil with sweet almond and organic jojoba, and the result is a proper cushiony oil rather than a thin slick. It is a 100 mL glass bottle, made in Germany, certified natural by NATRUE, and the listing is explicit that it is free from synthetic preservatives, parabens and phthalates.

It earns the top spot rather than one of the cheaper mainstream bottles on the rating. At 4.7 out of 5 across nearly 9,000 ratings, it is the highest-rated pick in this guide alongside The Jojoba Company, and it gets there on a review base an order of magnitude larger. That combination is rare here, where most premium oils have a few hundred reviews at most and the heavily reviewed ones sit at 4.6.

In use it is a night oil more than a morning one. Two or three pumps into damp skin after a shower and it disappears in a couple of minutes. The damask rose scent is the divisive part: a real rose, warm and slightly green, not the soapy pink rose most body products use. People who want their moisturiser to smell like nothing should buy the Neutrogena instead.

The listing positions it for normal and dry skin, which is fair: if your skin is properly cracked in July, the Bioderma below is the stronger call.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

• At 100 mL it is one of the smaller bottles here, so it will not last a whole household long.
• The rose scent is strong enough that it will sit under whatever perfume you wear.
• Glass bottle, so it is not the one to keep on the edge of the bath.

Best body oil if you hate feeling greasy: Aveeno Daily Moisturising Body Oil Mist

The most common complaint about body oil is standing around in a towel waiting to dry. The Aveeno mist is the answer. It is a 200 mL dry-touch spray built on oat oil and jojoba oil, with a soft shea note, and the whole design brief is that you can spray, smooth it in and get dressed.

It is also the most-reviewed pick in this guide by a very long way, with close to 25,000 ratings sitting at 4.6 out of 5. In a category where 300 reviews counts as popular, that is an enormous amount of feedback pointing the same direction. Aveeno lists it as hypoallergenic and suitable for sensitive skin, and formulated without parabens, phthalates, silicones, mineral oil, synthetic dyes or drying alcohol, which matters if you have reacted to something before.

The trade-off is that a light oil is a light oil. If your shins are properly dry in winter, one pass will feel pleasant but underpowered. It is at its best as a daily get-out-the-door product, and as a summer option when a heavy oil feels like too much in Brisbane or Darwin humidity.

The spray head throws a wide mist, brilliant for backs and shoulders and wasteful on one elbow, so spray into a palm for small areas.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

• Light coverage. Very dry skin will want a second pass or a richer oil.
• The wide spray pattern loses product on the bathroom floor if you are not careful.
• The shea scent is mild but it is still a scent, so it is not the fragrance-free option.

Best cheap body oil: Palmer's Coconut Oil Formula Body Oil

Palmer's is the bottle most Australians have used at some point without ever deciding to. It is the cheapest of our eight picks, 150 mL, built on extra virgin coconut oil with green coffee extract and vitamin E. The listing claims 48 hour moisture and calls it a light oil for hydrating and replenishing skin.

What makes it a genuine recommendation rather than just a cheap one is the rating base. Nearly 12,000 ratings at 4.6 out of 5 is the second-largest review pile in this guide, and it matches the Elizabeth Arden and L'Occitane bottles on score. It is paraben free and phthalate free, and the texture is a classic body oil rather than a dry one: it sits on the surface for a minute before it sinks.

The coconut scent is not a background note. It is a full, sweet, sunscreen-adjacent coconut, and it lingers. In a share house or a family bathroom that is either the best thing about it or the reason someone else will not touch it. Buy a small bottle first if you are unsure.

Because it is inexpensive and comes in plastic, it is the one to keep by the bath or throw in a beach bag, and at this price you will actually use it generously, which is more than half of whether a body oil works for you.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

• The coconut fragrance is strong and not to everyone's taste.
• Slower to absorb than the dry-touch options, so give it a few minutes before dressing.
• 150 mL is a middling bottle size for a product you will want to use freely.

Best unscented body oil: Neutrogena Light Sesame Body Oil

If fragrance is the thing that has put you off body oil, start here. The Neutrogena is a plain sesame oil formula in a 250 mL bottle, listed as unscented, and it is one of the two largest bottles in this guide alongside The Jojoba Company. It is a whisper-light formula that Neutrogena describes as absorbing quickly to lock in moisture.

It sits at 4.6 out of 5 across more than 8,000 ratings, a serious amount of agreement for a product that has been on Australian shelves for decades. The formula has not chased trends, and that is the appeal: no botanical blend, no marketing ingredient, just a light oil that does one job.

Sesame is a light, fast-sinking oil, so this behaves more like the Aveeno than the Weleda, but it pours rather than sprays. That makes it easy to be heavy-handed with, which is fine at this bottle size but does mean care on the tiles.

The 250 mL bottle is the practical argument: if two people are using body oil daily through a Melbourne winter, a big unscented bottle by the shower is the least fussy way to run it.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

• Unscented means unscented. There is no pleasure element here, it is purely functional.
• A pour bottle with a light oil is easy to over-dispense.
• The packaging is dated and looks it on a bathroom shelf.

Best multi-use body oil: Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour All-Over Body Miracle Oil

This one earns its place because it is not only a body oil. Elizabeth Arden sells the Eight Hour All-Over Miracle Oil as a head-to-toe product for body, face and hair, in a 100 mL bottle with a light floral fragrance. If you travel and resent carrying three bottles, that consolidation is worth real money.

It holds 4.6 out of 5 across more than 2,700 ratings, a well-established base rather than a handful of early reviewers. The texture is a light dry oil that sinks fast, which is what makes the face and hair uses plausible at all.

The Eight Hour name carries a lot of loyalty in Australia off the back of the original balm, and this is the whole-body version of that idea. The floral is soft and powdery rather than sweet, and it fades rather than fighting your perfume.

Where it makes least sense is as your everyday all-over moisturiser. Treat it as the bottle that goes in the weekender bag and gets used on hair ends, dry cuticles and shins. At 100 mL it also clears carry-on liquid limits, which is a small thing until you are repacking at the airport.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

• 100 mL will not go far if you use it as a full-body daily oil.
• Fragranced, so it is not the pick for reactive skin.
• Being useful on face, body and hair means it is not optimised for any of them.

Best body oil for rough, flaky skin: Bioderma Atoderm 2-in-1 Oil

Bioderma's Atoderm range is built around very dry skin, and this 150 mL bottle is the oil version. It is the only one of our eight picks whose listing names an AHA, an ester the listing pairs with the oil base and aims at rough, flaky texture rather than just sitting on top of it. It also lists ceramide as an active ingredient and jojoba oil in the blend.

The 2-in-1 part is genuinely useful and often missed: it works as a nourishing oil on dry skin, and in the shower it turns milky on contact with water and rinses off as a cleansing oil. It can also stand in for a body wash if foaming cleansers do not suit you.

It is made in France, listed as hypoallergenic, and finishes as a dry oil with a satin rather than slick feel. The rating is the honest caveat: 4.4 out of 5 across 209 ratings is the lowest score of our eight picks, on a review base far smaller than the mainstream bottles above.

Buy it if winter reliably turns your shins rough and the light oils have not been enough, not as a pleasant everyday oil.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

• The lowest rating of our eight picks, on a modest review base.
• Pharmacy-style packaging and a functional scent profile.
• The shower use is a learned habit; used the usual way you are paying for a feature you never touch.

Best single-ingredient body oil: The Jojoba Company Pure Jojoba Oil

Some people do not want a blend, a fragrance or a marketing story. They want one oil. This is a 250 mL bottle of pure jojoba, listed as unscented and aimed at sensitive skin, with jojoba as both the active and the whole formula.

Jojoba is the sensible single-ingredient choice because it is technically a liquid wax and sits close to what skin produces itself, so it feels light and non-clogging even on faces. It shares the highest rating in this guide at 4.7 out of 5, tied with the Weleda, though on a much smaller base of 70 ratings.

At 250 mL it is one of the two largest bottles here alongside the Neutrogena, and because it is a single oil it does jobs a blend cannot: cleansing balm, cuticle oil, beard oil, a few drops through damp hair ends, a carrier if you own essential oils. If you own one multi-purpose thing rather than six specific ones, this is your bottle.

The flip side is that a pure carrier oil feels plainer than a formulated one. No slip agent, no fragrance, no texture engineering. It is oil, and you have to like that.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

• The smallest review base of our eight picks, so the rating carries less weight.
• No fragrance and no formulation extras, which some people will find dull.
• Sits at the top of this guide's price range for what is a single plant oil.

Best treat-yourself body oil: L'Occitane Almond Supple Skin Oil

This is the bottle people buy as a present and then quietly buy again for themselves. L'Occitane builds it around 50 per cent almond oil with camelina oil in support, in a 100 mL bottle made in France, and the almond scent is the whole point of it.

It is the dearest of our eight picks, and it earns that on experience rather than performance: a fine, light oil that sinks quickly, a bottle that looks good, and a marzipan-adjacent almond smell that is one of the most recognisable in beauty. It holds 4.6 out of 5 across 106 ratings, a small but consistent base for a listing that has not been up long.

Practically, this is a post-bath oil rather than a rushed weekday one, and at 100 mL you will not be slathering it on shins nightly without noticing the cost. If you want the almond experience, L'Occitane's shower oil in the same range is linked below.

If you buy body oil because it feels like a small luxury, this delivers that most reliably. If you buy it because your skin is dry, the Weleda or the Bioderma serve you better.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

• The dearest pick in this guide, on the smallest bottle size tier.
• A modest review base compared with the mainstream options.
• Strongly fragranced, so it is not for anyone who reacts to perfume.

Which body oil should you buy?

Match your situation to a bottle rather than reading all eight sections again.

What should you look for in a body oil?

Four things decide whether a bottle gets used or shoved to the back of the cupboard: format, scent, bottle size and whether the ingredient list suits your skin. Price barely features, because the cheapest pick here matches most of the guide on rating.

Which format of body oil suits you?

This is the choice the review sites skip, and it matters more than the ingredient list. Four formats sit on the shelf and they behave completely differently.

Scent is the second filter. A body oil covers a huge surface area, so a fragrance you like in a hand cream can be overwhelming across your whole body and will sit under whatever you wear on top. Two of our picks are listed as unscented for exactly this reason.

On bottle size, work out how much of you is actually getting oiled. Arms and legs every night is a very different volume from a bit on the elbows, and a 250 mL bottle lasts two and a half times as long as a 100 mL one at the same rate of use. Buying the small bottle of an expensive oil is how people end up rationing it and then not using it.

Ingredients matter less than the marketing suggests, with two exceptions. If you have reacted to skincare before, look for listings that state hypoallergenic and name what has been left out, as the Aveeno and Bioderma listings do. If you want the oil to double on your face, a light jojoba or sesame oil is a gentler start than a rich botanical blend.

One Australian wrinkle worth planning around: the same bottle behaves differently across the country and across the year. In Darwin or Cairns in February a rich oil feels like too much and a dry-touch mist does not. In a Melbourne or Hobart July the opposite is true. A light bottle for summer and a richer one for winter is a more useful pair than one premium bottle you fight with half the year.

How do you get the most out of a body oil?

Apply it to damp skin, not dry. This is the single change that makes body oil work. An oil holds no water of its own, so what it does is slow the water already in your skin from evaporating. On bone-dry skin you get a slick; on skin still damp from the shower you trap that moisture in.

Pat, do not rub, with the towel first. You want skin damp rather than dripping, then two to four pumps warmed between the palms and pressed over arms and legs. Give richer oils a couple of minutes before you dress, and dry-touch options about thirty seconds.

Exfoliate first if your skin is flaky, because oil on dead skin just makes shiny dead skin. A weekly pass with a mitt or a body scrub does more than upgrading to a dearer bottle.

Store the bottle out of direct sun. Plant oils go rancid, and a bottle that has turned smells faintly of crayons or old nuts. Once you notice that, it is finished regardless of the date on the base.

And watch the floor. Oil on tiles is genuinely slippery and builds up invisibly over weeks, so stand on a bath mat and clean the shower base more often.

What else will you want with a body oil?

None of these are essential, but they are what people buy in the month after they start using body oil properly.

• Seraphic Skincare Exfoliating Mitt for the weekly pass that makes any oil work.
• Tskcos Dry Body Brush, 2 pack if you prefer dry brushing before the shower.
• TOOLETRIES Silicone Back Scrubber for the part of your back you cannot otherwise reach.
• L'Occitane Almond Softening Shower Oil as the cheaper way into the same almond scent.
• POLYTE Microfibre Quick Dry Waffle Bath Towel because patting dry beats rubbing dry.
• Youngever Glass Pump Bottles, 6 pack for decanting a big bottle into something that lives by the shower.

What about the body oils we did not pick?

Bio-Oil is the name most people expect to see here. We left it out on scope rather than quality: the listing is built around scars and stretch marks, and this guide only assesses body oils as everyday moisturisers.

Palmer's Shimmer Radiance, the shimmering Nuxe dry oils and Sol de Janeiro's Bum Bum oil are all popular here and all excluded by the same rule: a product with mica or a fragrance-first brief is a cosmetic finish, not a moisturiser, and it transfers onto clothes and sheets.

Bangn Body is an Australian brand a lot of people ask about, and it may well be worth your money, but its Amazon Australia listing had too few ratings at the time of writing for us to recommend it.

Bulk massage oils, the five and ten litre bottles with taps, keep appearing in body oil search results. They are built to stay slippery for a long treatment, the opposite of what a moisturiser should do, so they are out.

Body oil questions, answered

What is the best body oil in Australia for very dry skin?

For skin that is genuinely rough and flaky rather than just a bit tight, the two picks worth starting with are the Bioderma Atoderm 2-in-1 Oil, which pairs a dry-oil texture with an AHA ester aimed at flaky skin, and the Neutrogena Light Sesame Body Oil, a plain unscented sesame oil in a 250 mL bottle you can afford to be generous with. Both work best applied to damp skin straight out of the shower.

Is body oil better than body lotion?

Neither is better, they do different jobs. A lotion is mostly water held together with emulsifiers, so it sinks in fast and feels light. An oil contains no water at all, so it sits on the surface longer and slows moisture leaving the skin, which is why oil belongs on damp skin rather than dry.

What is the best smelling body oil in Australia?

Scent is personal, so all we can tell you is what each bottle is built around. The Weleda is damask rose, the Palmer's is coconut, the L'Occitane is almond, the Elizabeth Arden carries a light floral, and the Aveeno is a soft shea note. If you want no added fragrance at all, the Neutrogena and The Jojoba Company bottles are both listed as unscented.

Does body oil stain sheets and clothes?

It can, which is why the format matters more than the ingredient list. Dry-touch oils and mists such as the Aveeno sink in within a minute and are the safest bet before you get dressed. Richer oils like the Weleda and the Palmer's are better as a night step, and even then it is worth giving them a few minutes before you pull a top on.

How long does a bottle of body oil last?

That depends on bottle size and how much of you gets oiled. Our picks run from 100 mL for the Weleda, Elizabeth Arden and L'Occitane bottles up to 250 mL for the Neutrogena and The Jojoba Company. At the same rate of use a 250 mL bottle lasts two and a half times as long as a 100 mL one, which is worth weighing up before you pay for the smaller bottle.

What else should you sort out while you are here?

Body oil is one line in a bathroom routine. These are the guides people read next.

• Best body scrubs in Australia for the exfoliation step that makes any oil work harder.
• Best body brushes in Australia if you would rather dry brush than scrub.
• Best bath bombs in Australia for the soak a post-bath oil belongs to.
• Best women's perfumes in Australia so oil and fragrance are not fighting.
• Best hairbrushes in Australia for the other half of the after-shower routine.
• Best shampoo bars in Australia if you are simplifying the shower shelf.
• Best bath towels in Australia because patting dry is part of the method.

About the author

Anish Puri founded NestPath in 2026 after going through the Australian first-home-buyer process himself. NestPath focuses on Australian first-home buyers because the existing review sites are American, generic, or both. Anish handles editorial selection across the homeowner hub. Reach out: hello@nestpath.com.au