Naturium The Glow Getter Multi-Oil Body Butter

This is the richest of the four products on our squalane body lotion roundup, where we rank it third, and it is the one whose name turns out to be half accurate and half optical. The "Multi-Oil" part is true and verifiable — there are seven oils and butters on the list, four of them in the top six. The "Glow" part is real too, but not in the way these claims usually are, and finding out why involved checking the list for something that turned out not to be there. Everything below comes from Naturium's own published ingredient list and claim copy, an independent ingredient decoder used as a cross-check, a live availability and price lookup on the Amazon listing we link to, and a retailer's own editorial review quoted with attribution. We did not lab-test this butter and we do not claim to have used it.

The published list is thirty-two ingredients, in this order: water, rice bran oil, caprylic/capric triglyceride, coconut oil, safflower seed oil, shea butter, glycerin, glyceryl stearate, coco-caprylate/caprate, sodium acrylate/sodium acryloyldimethyl taurate copolymer, C15-19 alkane, apple fruit extract, coconut fruit extract, rosa canina (rosehip) fruit oil, jojoba seed oil, squalane, hydrolyzed rice protein, sea buckthorn fruit/seed oil, stearyl phosphate, potassium cetyl phosphate, gamma-decalactone, gamma-nonalactone, vanillin, vanilla planifolia fruit extract, sodium hydroxide, sodium benzoate, citric acid, tetrasodium glutamate diacetate, ethylhexylglycerin, lauryl glucoside, limonene and phenoxyethanol. We read it from Naturium's own product page and checked it against an independent ingredient decoder; the two match item for item. Squalane is sixteenth of thirty-two. A live product lookup on October 5, 2026 returned the listing as "Naturium The Glow Getter Multi-Oil Body Butter with Squalane, 7.7 fl oz", In Stock.

Take the honest half of the name first, because it is the reason this product is on our roundup at all. Rice bran oil is second, straight after water. Caprylic/capric triglyceride is third — a fractionated coconut-derived emollient, not strictly an oil but doing the same job. Coconut oil is fourth, safflower seed oil fifth, shea butter sixth. Then rosehip fruit oil at fourteenth, jojoba seed oil at fifteenth and sea buckthorn fruit and seed oil at eighteenth. That is a genuinely oil-forward formula and "Multi-Oil" is not marketing: four of the top six ingredients are lipids, and they are varied enough to behave differently on skin. Safflower, fifth, is the most linoleic-acid-dense of the common seed oils, which matters on dry skin because linoleic acid is the fatty acid built into one of the long-chain ceramides that organize the skin barrier. Naturium's own copy describes "linoleic-rich botanical oils, shea butter, glycerin, squalane, and plant-based peptides", and on the oils that claim survives contact with the list.

Now the glow, which is where we expected to catch the formula out and did not. On most products that promise luminosity, the luminosity is a mineral: mica, titanium dioxide and tin oxide in combination are the standard recipe for a soft-focus, light-reflecting finish, and we have found exactly that set on another Naturium product — the Multi-Peptide Eye Cream, where three of twenty-two ingredients turned out to be pigments doing optical work. There is none of that here. No mica, no titanium dioxide, no tin oxide, no synthetic fluorphlogopite, nothing reflective anywhere on the thirty-two. The "glow" from this butter is the ordinary sheen of a lot of oil sitting on skin, which is a real visual effect and also an entirely honest one. It washes off with water, it does not transfer glitter onto your clothes, and the brand has not quietly used a pigment to manufacture it. We say so because we would have said the opposite had the minerals been there.

Where squalane sits is the less flattering half. Sixteenth of thirty-two is the middle of the list, behind every one of those oils except the rosehip, the jojoba and the sea buckthorn, and behind the glycerin, the emulsifier and the thickener. More pointedly, it sits behind C15-19 alkane at eleventh — and that is a comparison worth understanding, because the two ingredients are relatives. Squalane is a thirty-carbon branched alkane: it stays on skin and moisturizes. The C15-19 alkane above it is roughly half that chain length, far thinner, considerably more volatile, and used as a spreading and slip agent — the plant-derived substitute formulators reach for when they want silicone-like glide without silicone. It is a genuinely useful ingredient and we are not criticizing its presence. But a formula that puts the thin, partly-evaporating cousin five places above the one that stays is telling you which effect it was engineered for: feel on application, not lipid left behind. Our squalane versus hemisqualane guide explains the chain-length difference in full, because it is the single most commonly misunderstood thing in this ingredient family.

One thing we cannot tell you, and nor can anyone else: how much squalane is in this tub. The usual trick for locating the one percent line is to find the preservative — US rules only require descending order above one percent, so wherever phenoxyethanol lands is roughly where the formula crosses under. On this list phenoxyethanol is thirty-second. Last. Taken literally, that would mean thirty-one ingredients are each present above one percent, which is not plausible in a body butter, and the giveaway sits just above it: lauryl glucoside at thirtieth and limonene at thirty-first are a surfactant and a declared aroma component, both of which belong in the fractions-of-a-percent range. So the tail of this list is grouped rather than strictly ranked, and squalane's sixteenth place does not support a percentage figure. If you find a number quoted for the squalane content of this butter, it has been inferred from the position rather than read off a published figure, and we are not going to repeat it as though it were one.

Then the scent, which we think is the most useful paragraph on this page, because it is the thing people search for about this product and the answer is unusually checkable. Naturium states the butter is "formulated with a blend of natural aromatic extracts with a vanilla and coconut scent", and the list backs that up ingredient by ingredient rather than hiding behind the word Fragrance. Gamma-decalactone is twenty-first, gamma-nonalactone twenty-second, vanillin twenty-third and vanilla planifolia fruit extract twenty-fourth — two creamy lactones of the kind used to build coconut and stone-fruit notes, plus the vanilla. Declaring those individually instead of collapsing them into "Fragrance/Parfum" is more disclosure than most brands offer and we will give credit for it. It does not make the product fragrance-free. Limonene is thirty-first, and the independent decoder we cross-checked against flags it as "a super common fragrance ingredient" that oxidizes and "counts as a frequent skin sensitizer." If you are avoiding fragrance, this is the wrong product on our roundup and the Naturium Bio-Lipid Restoring Body Lotion — same brand, no fragrance or parfum anywhere on its thirty-eight — is the right one.

The coconut oil at fourth is the other thing to check before you buy, and it decides this purchase for a specific group of people. Coconut oil is a heavy, highly occlusive oil, it is one of the more comedogenic common plant oils, and it is on the feed list for Malassezia along with the triglycerides and the other seed oils here. If you get breakouts on your back, chest or shoulders, this is not the body product to put there — and the problem is the formula around the squalane rather than the squalane itself, which is one of the few lipids generally considered safe on that front. Our guide on whether squalane is fungal-acne safe sets out how to read a body product for this, and our squalane versus coconut oil comparison covers why the two behave so differently on skin despite both being plant lipids. On dry shins, arms and elbows, none of this matters and the richness is the point.

A word on the "plant-based peptides" in the brand's own description, because it is the one claim here we would push back on. The only protein-derived ingredient on the list is hydrolyzed rice protein, seventeenth. A hydrolyzed protein is exactly what the name says — a protein chopped into a mixture of short peptide fragments and free amino acids — and in a leave-on body product its realistic function is mild surface conditioning and a little film-forming. That is not the same category of ingredient as a designed signal peptide such as palmitoyl tripeptide-1, which is what people picture when a label says peptides, and which is sold on a collagen-signaling story. Calling hydrolyzed rice protein a plant-based peptide is technically defensible and practically misleading, and it is worth knowing that this is a well-made botanical butter rather than a treatment product with actives in it.

How it feels, from named people who have used it — with a disclosure attached. The most detailed review we found is Space NK's own editorial, written by Hanitra Ramaholimihaso and Sheraye Olive and published on September 24, 2024. Space NK sells the product, so treat this as a retailer's enthusiasm rather than independent testing; we are quoting it because the texture detail in it is specific and because we would rather name the conflict than launder the quotes. Hanitra describes a "thick, slightly whipped consistency" that is nonetheless "delightfully lightweight", and the scent as "the warm, yet subtle fragrance of vanilla and coconut." Sheraye calls it a "richer, more velvety texture, yet remains just as nourishing" than the matching body oil, finds the "glow-enhancing properties are equally impressive", and notes that "neither formula feels greasy, sticky or heavy." Neither reviewer records a criticism, which is itself worth noticing about a retailer review. Those are two people's impressions, not measurements, and we present them as such.

The arithmetic of buying it. This is a 7.7 fl oz (232 ml) tub, which is the second-smallest of the four body products on our roundup — the fragrance-free Bio-Lipid lotion from the same brand comes in a bottle nearly twice the size for a similar kind of money. That matters more on the body than anywhere else for a simple reason: a face serum is dosed in drops and a body product is dosed in handfuls, so cost per ounce is not a tiebreaker in this category, it is most of the decision. A butter you ration loses to a lotion you apply generously every day. Check the live price and the computed cost per ounce in the spec table above rather than any number written here, because retailers move these constantly and a figure typed into a paragraph is wrong within days.

Who should skip it. Anyone avoiding fragrance — the lactones, the vanillin and the limonene are not optional extras, they are what this product smells like. Anyone with body acne or fungal acne on the back, chest or shoulders, because of the coconut oil at fourth and the oil load generally. Anyone shopping specifically for squalane, because sixteenth of thirty-two under a lighter alkane is not where you buy this ingredient: a large bottle of 100% squalane patted over damp skin, which is what our best squalane oil for body guide is built around, puts far more squalane on you for less money. And anyone who wants the biggest tub for the money, which is the Bio-Lipid lotion.

Who should buy it. Someone with genuinely dry limbs who finds thin lotions unsatisfying and wants a rich, oil-forward butter that leaves a soft sheen — and who actively likes a warm vanilla-coconut scent, because that is a feature here rather than a side effect. On those terms it is a well-built product: seven real oils, four of them in the top six, shea butter sixth, a sensible emulsifier system, no reflective minerals faking the glow, and an unusually transparent approach to declaring what the scent is made of. It is also pleasant enough that people buy it as a treat rather than a routine, which is a legitimate reason to own a body butter.

The bottom line. The Glow Getter is a good botanical body butter that contains squalane, not a squalane body butter, and the two halves of its name hold up to very different degrees. "Multi-Oil" is accurate and checkable. "Glow" is honest in a way we did not expect — it is oil sheen rather than the mica-and-titanium-dioxide trick we found on this brand's own eye cream, and that deserves credit. But squalane is sixteenth of thirty-two, sitting below the lighter C15-19 alkane, and no percentage for it can be read off this list. We rank it third of four on our body roundup for exactly those reasons: it is the right pick if you want the richest texture and you want it scented, and it is the wrong pick if you want fragrance-free, the lowest cost per ounce, or the most squalane.