Dr.G Green Mild Up Sunscreen Line: Only One of These Two Is Fragrance Free

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Two products, one brand promise, and a difference that only shows up if you read to the end of the list.

What do the two share?

The part people usually ask about first.

Both are mineral sunscreens, and on the two listings read here zinc oxide is the only regulated UV filter, with no titanium dioxide on either.^[1][2] Both carry an alcohol-free flag.^[1][2] So the protection side of the decision is genuinely the same, and the choice comes down to format and to the fragrance question below.

If mineral versus chemical is the part you’re weighing, our organic vs inorganic piece takes apart the terms, and our absorption piece covers what the safety research did and didn’t find.

Where do they actually differ?

	Green Mild Up Sun+ (cream)	Green Mild Up Sun Stick
UV filter	Zinc oxide only[1]	Zinc oxide only[2]
Titanium dioxide	Absent[1]	Absent[2]
Alcohol	Flagged free[1]	Flagged free[2]
Fragrance	None, flagged free[1]	Present, final ingredient[2]
Ingredients in total	36[1]	43[2]

One row does the work. That flag is worth understanding before you lean on it, and our fragrance-free piece has the detail: absence from a list is checkable in a way marketing copy isn’t.

What about the calming ingredients in the name?

They’re on the list, and they’re a long way down it.

The cream carries centella asiatica extract at twenty-six, houttuynia cordata at thirty-one and ectoin at thirty-two, out of thirty-six.^[1] That isn’t a criticism, it’s just what the order says. Position tells you order, not dose, and we set that caution out properly in our piece on actives in sunscreen.

What we won’t tell you is that those extracts calm your skin, because that isn’t a claim the ingredient list can support.

Is the stick the cream in a different package?

The two lists part company at position one.

The cream opens Water, Zinc Oxide, Propanediol.^[3] The stick opens Octyldodecanol, Zinc Oxide, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate, and Water does not turn up on it until position thirty-six of forty-three.^[4] The middle of each list shows what that costs. Six of the stick’s first seventeen entries carry the label viscosity controlling, against two of the cream’s first seventeen, and two of those six are the dibutyl glutamides our sun stick and sun cushion piece counted as this stick’s gelling agents.^[3][4]

So what you’re choosing between is two bases carrying one filter decision, not one formula in two containers. The reverse rule doesn’t follow from it. That same piece opened a stick that lists Water first, so being water-late is a fact about this stick rather than about the format.

What else do the two lists have in common?

Eighteen ingredient names appear on both, and exactly one of the eighteen falls at the same position on each: Zinc Oxide, second.^[3][4]

Nine of those eighteen are the plant and antioxidant block this line repeats: Centella Asiatica Extract, Caesalpinia Spinosa Fruit Extract, Pinus Pinaster Bark Extract, Kappaphycus Alvarezii Extract, Buddleja Officinalis Flower Extract, 7-Dehydrocholesterol, Ectoin, Tocopherol and Lactobacillus Ferment. On the cream all nine sit between twenty-five and thirty-four of thirty-six. On the stick they spread from eighteen to forty-one of forty-three.^[3][4]

The names that appear on only one of the two are the more useful half. Houttuynia Cordata Extract, one of the three the section above counted, is on the cream and absent from the stick, and so are Sodium Hyaluronate and Rutin.^[3][4] The stick carries a block the cream has nothing like: seven consecutive plant entries at twenty-four through thirty, being Camellia Sinensis Leaf, Ginkgo Biloba Leaf, Camellia Japonica Leaf, Eruca Sativa Leaf, Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Sprout, Brassica Oleracea Italica (Broccoli) Sprout and Medicago Sativa (Alfalfa).^[4] The description on that page calls it a complex of “seven botanical ingredients”, which for once is a marketing phrase the list underneath it can be checked against.^[4]

What none of that tells you is what any of them does on skin, for the reason the section above already gave.

Which of these will show on my skin?

Both can. Zinc oxide is the filter doing the protecting in each.

It depends on the tone of your skin and how much you put on, and our white cast article has the picks that avoid the filters responsible.

Which one should I get?

The cream if fragrance is something you screen out, or if you want the base layer. Check the price on YesStyle.

The stick if you want something for topping up that goes on without clean hands, and fragrance doesn’t bother you. Check the price on YesStyle.

On dosing a stick properly, which is the part most people get wrong, our sun balm piece has the measured version.

If I screen for fragrance, is the flag enough?

It’s the first check rather than the last one.

The cream’s page carries two flags, read off the page markup rather than found by searching: “Alcohol Free” and “Fragrance and Essential Oil Free”. The stick’s page carries “Alcohol Free” and nothing else.^[3][4]

Past the flag there are two more rows on the stick worth knowing about. Its first ingredient, Octyldodecanol, is filed under the functions “emollient, perfuming”, and the same database describes it as “A clear, slightly yellow, odorless oil”, so a recorded perfuming function isn’t a promise of a scent.^[6] At nineteen the stick lists Mentha Viridis (Spearmint) Extract, whose recorded functions are “masking, oral care”.^[6] Neither of those is the Fragrance entry at the end of the list, and neither has a counterpart on the cream, where not one of the thirty-six entries carries a perfuming label in that column.^[3]

If your rule is the word Fragrance, the cream passes and the stick doesn’t, and you can stop there. If your rule is anything with a scent function recorded against it, the stick gives you three rows to weigh instead of one.

How much weight will two database pages carry?

Less than the box in your hand, so here are the limits of what’s above.

Both pages are reader uploads, the cream listing from April 2023 and the stick listing from July 2022, posted by two different accounts.^[3][4] Our piece on the alcohol-free flag opened seven listings for this cream, running from twenty-eight to fifty-three ingredients, so the thirty-six read here is one transcription among several.

The fragrance difference survives that, which is why it’s the one difference this article will state flatly. A second stick listing, uploaded in April 2021 by a third account, also comes to forty-three entries, also puts Zinc Oxide second and Fragrance last, and also carries the alcohol-free flag and no fragrance flag. It parts from the first at two positions only: Triticum Aestivum Seed Extract where the first has the wheat sprout extract at twenty-eight, and Glyceryl Caprylate/Caprate for Glyceryl Caprylate at thirty-one.^[5] The cream side holds too. A second thirty-six ingredient listing carries both flags and matches the one read here at every position but the tenth, and across all four cream listings opened for this article not one prints Fragrance anywhere. The two longest of the four carry no fragrance flag, but those two also put Titanium Dioxide fifth and Cetearyl Alcohol at thirty-five and thirty-six.^[5]

One row is worth naming rather than leaving buried. Both lists carry Buddleja Officinalis Flower Extract, and the database files it with the what-it-does “sunscreen” and a recorded function of “uv filter”.^[6] A botanical extract is not a UV filter any regulator recognizes, so the count stays at one filter in each, which is the same way our mineral sunscreen roundup handled that row.

FAQ

Am I getting the same formula if I buy the stick instead of the cream?

No. Same single filter, but the stick has fragrance as its last ingredient and the cream is flagged free of it.

Which one is fragrance free for me?

The cream. The stick is not.

Do the centella and houttuynia in the cream actually calm my skin?

We can’t tell you that. They’re on the list at positions twenty-six and thirty-one of thirty-six, and position tells you order rather than dose.

Will I get a white cast from either of these?

Possibly from both. Zinc oxide is the only filter in each, so the mechanism is the same.

Can I use the stick as my only sunscreen?

We’d treat it as a top-up over a base layer. Sticks are hard to dose, and our sun balm piece has the measurements.

Sources

Ingredient lists (INCIDecoder, read directly):
[1] Dr.G Green Mild Up Sun+ SPF50+ PA++++ : Zinc Oxide is the only regulated UV filter listed and titanium dioxide is absent; flagged alcohol-free, and flagged free of fragrance and essential oils; Centella Asiatica Extract is twenty-sixth, Houttuynia Cordata Extract thirty-first and Ectoin thirty-second; 36 ingredients listed: link
[2] Dr.G Green Mild Up Sun Stick : Zinc Oxide is the only regulated UV filter listed and titanium dioxide is absent; carries an alcohol-free flag; Fragrance is present as the final entry of the list, and the product carries no fragrance-free flag; 43 ingredients listed: link

The same two listings re-read as raw HTML on 2026-08-03. Every position and count below is taken from the unique ingredient anchors on the page rather than by splitting the printed list on commas, and both flags were read from the page markup rather than found by search:
[3] Dr.G Green Mild Up Sun+ SPF50+ Pa++++, 36 anchors. Water first, Zinc Oxide second, Propanediol third. Of the first seventeen entries, Disteardimonium Hectorite at thirteen and Magnesium Sulfate at fourteen are the only two labelled viscosity controlling, and five are labelled emollient. Sodium Hyaluronate twenty-three, Tocopherol twenty-five, Centella Asiatica Extract twenty-six, Caesalpinia Spinosa Fruit Extract twenty-seven, Pinus Pinaster Bark Extract twenty-eight, Kappaphycus Alvarezii Extract twenty-nine, 7-Dehydrocholesterol thirty, Houttuynia Cordata Extract thirty-one, Ectoin thirty-two, Buddleja Officinalis Flower Extract thirty-three, Lactobacillus Ferment thirty-four, Rutin thirty-six. No entry on the list carries a perfuming label in the what-it-does column. Two flags on the page, reading “Alcohol Free” and “Fragrance and Essential Oil Free”. Page uploaded by the account oilyskinperson on 04/27/2023: link
[4] Dr.G Green Mild Up Sun Stick, 43 anchors. Octyldodecanol first, Zinc Oxide second, Cetyl Ethylhexanoate third. Of the first seventeen entries, six are labelled viscosity controlling, being Acrylates Copolymer eight, Silica Silylate ten, Dibutyl Lauroyl Glutamide eleven, Dibutyl Ethylhexanoyl Glutamide twelve, Vinyl Dimethicone sixteen and Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer seventeen. Centella Asiatica Extract eighteen, Mentha Viridis (Spearmint) Extract nineteen, Pinus Pinaster Bark Extract twenty, Caesalpinia Spinosa Fruit Extract twenty-one, Kappaphycus Alvarezii Extract twenty-two, Buddleja Officinalis Flower Extract twenty-three, then seven consecutive plant entries at twenty-four to thirty: Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract, Camellia Japonica Leaf Extract, Eruca Sativa Leaf Extract, Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Sprout Extract, Brassica Oleracea Italica (Broccoli) Sprout Extract and Medicago Sativa (Alfalfa) Extract. Tocopherol thirty-five, Water thirty-six, 7-Dehydrocholesterol thirty-seven, Ectoin thirty-eight, Lactobacillus Ferment forty-one, Fragrance forty-three and last, its what-it-does printed as perfuming. One flag on the page, reading “Alcohol Free”. The page description is a reader submission and describes the stick as containing “seven botanical ingredients, including green tea, broccoli and camellia extracts”. Page uploaded by the account marz101 on 07/28/2022: link

Other listings for the same two products, opened on 2026-08-03 to test whether the fragrance difference survives a change of transcriber:
[5] Second stick listing, titled Green Mild Up Sun Stick SPF50+/PA++++, 43 anchors, uploaded by the account royalsincognito on 04/23/2021. Same names in the same order as [4] except at two positions: Triticum Aestivum Seed Extract at twenty-eight and Glyceryl Caprylate/Caprate at thirty-one. Zinc Oxide second, Fragrance forty-three, one flag reading “Alcohol Free” and no fragrance flag: link. Second 36-anchor cream listing, titled Green Mild Up Sun, uploaded by the account svsih on 07/02/2022, carrying both flags and matching [3] at every position except the tenth, where it prints Lauryl Polyglyceryl-3 Polydimethylsiloxyethyl Dimethicone, a name it prints again at eighteen: link. Two longer cream listings at 52 and 53 anchors, each carrying one flag reading “Alcohol Free” and no fragrance flag, each opening Water, Cyclomethicone, Zinc Oxide, Propanediol, Titanium Dioxide, with Cetearyl Alcohol at thirty-five and thirty-six respectively. Neither of the two prints Fragrance at any position: 52, 53

Ingredient pages on the same database, read directly on 2026-08-03:
[6] Octyldodecanol: what-it-does printed as “emollient, perfuming”, the CosIng block giving all functions as “emollient, masking, perfuming”, and the page text describing it as “A clear, slightly yellow, odorless oil”: link. Mentha Viridis Extract: no what-it-does printed on the page, the CosIng block giving all functions as “masking, oral care”, described as an extract of the whole plant of the garden mint: link. Buddleja Officinalis Flower Extract: what-it-does printed as “sunscreen”, the CosIng block giving all functions as “uv filter”, described as the extract of the flowers of Buddleja officinalis: link

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