Affiliate links below, but they cost you nothing extra. We only point you to what the ingredient lists actually back up. When we read Tocobo’s cream and stick side by side for our Tocobo line guide, the finding was that a shared brand name doesn’t promise a shared filter set. Tocobo’s Vita line has four…
This one begins on an ingredient database page rather than in a lab. The INCIDecoder entry for panthenol says the ingredient “can reduce the irritation caused by less-nice other ingredients (e.g. fragrance, preservatives or chemical sunscreens)”[1]. Chemical sunscreens, named directly. Read that sentence once and you can see where the shopping advice comes from: put…
Affiliate links below, but they cost you nothing extra. We only point you to what the ingredient lists actually back up. Anua prints a percentage next to the heartleaf in its sun cream. Almost no brand does that, so it’s worth checking, and checking it took us to three separate ingredient listings filed under nearly…
Two of the sunscreens below carry the same $28.00 list price. One of them came out cheapest per milliliter of the 14 I could price, and the other came out most expensive. The only thing standing between them is how much is inside the bottle. The short version: we opened 18 Korean sunscreen listings at…
Oily skin gets told a lot about tinted sunscreen, and almost none of it is about the tint. You get told it protects better, or that it goes grey on you, or that the shade will slide off by the afternoon. Underneath all of that sits a plainer question a shopper can check: when your…
Ask why Korean sunscreen keeps coming up and the answers you get are usually about ingredients. People type the question already phrased, as why are Korean sunscreens better. We can answer a narrower version of it, and the narrowing is the honest part of this page. Two governments publish documents saying which ingredients may work…
Search for these two filters and you’ll be told, over and over, that one is oil soluble and the other is water soluble. The second half of that is wrong, and the document that proves it is a European safety committee report that lists the water solubility of Tinosorb M’s active molecule as “extremely low…
It’s 7:40 in the evening. The sun went down half an hour ago, you’re at the bathroom sink, and some small voice asks whether you were supposed to top up your sunscreen after lunch. Somewhere along the way the advice became every day, all day, indoors too, screens included. It started as a real sentence…
Both formats exist for the same reason: you can’t rub a cream into a finished face at 2pm without wrecking it. So the sun stick vs sun cushion question gets asked as a shopping question, and every page answering it tells you the stick is faster and the cushion is more even. We went looking…
You get the first month of capsules, and somewhere in the paperwork is a line about sunlight. It tells you to avoid it. It does not tell you what to do on the days you can’t. So we read the labels, thirty of them, and then read the sun advice the American Academy of Dermatology…