Klairs All-day Airy Sunscreen Review: Two Bottles, One Name
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Klairs put the words All-day Airy on two different sunscreens. One word separates them on the label, and behind that word the chemistry is completely different. So the first job here isn’t judging the formula. It’s making sure you know which bottle you’re holding.
The short version: this Klairs All-day Airy Sunscreen review reads the 44 ingredients Klairs publishes on its own Korean product disclosure, and four of the first eight lines are the UV filters.[1][3] All four are organic filters, and there’s no zinc oxide or titanium dioxide anywhere on the list.[1] The one to watch out for is the sibling: Klairs also sells an All-day Airy Mineral Sunscreen, a separate 33-ingredient product whose only filter is zinc oxide.[1] The two share the name and not a single filter.
Klairs sells two All-day Airy sunscreens, and they share no filter
Two products, one family name, opposite filter chemistry. Here’s what the ingredient database prints for each.[1]
| Product, as the database names it | Uploaded | Ingredient rows | Rows tagged sunscreen |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Day Airy Sunscreen SPF 50+ | 2022-05-21 | 44 | 4, all organic |
| All-day Airy Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+ PA++++ | 2024-04-09 | 33 | 1, zinc oxide |
The bolded row is the one this piece argues from. The other row is a different product, not a version or a reformulation of this one, and we’re not reviewing it here.
Worth saying plainly, because plenty of same-name entries in ingredient databases are just typing errors by different uploaders: these two aren’t that. Line them up name by name and they share nine ingredients in total, and only two of those nine land in the same slot: water at first and butyloctyl salicylate at third.[1] Position two is where they part company, with dibutyl adipate on the 44 and zinc oxide on the 33.[1] If you want the category difference behind that split, our piece on organic versus inorganic filters takes the terms apart, and there’s no point repeating it here.
How do I make sure the bottle I order is this one?
Read for the word Mineral, and read for the unit. Those two catch almost everything.
First, how we checked that there are only two. We searched the ingredient database five different ways and took the union of the results, because a single query can quietly miss an entry.[1]
| Search we ran | Product entries returned | All-day Airy sunscreens among them |
|---|---|---|
| klairs all day airy | 2 | 2 |
| all-day airy sunscreen | 2 | 2 |
| klairs sunscreen | 2 | 2 |
| airy sunscreen | 18 | 2 |
| klairs | 50 | 2 |
Same two every time. The broad searches also turned up three other Klairs products carrying an SPF number, none of them an All-day Airy: Mid-Day Blue Sun Lotion, Mid Day Blue UV Shield, and Illuminating Supple Blemish Cream.[1] If a listing says Mid-Day Blue, you’re looking at something else again.
How we count, because it changes the answer by one either way. One ingredient per row of the page’s ingredient table, cross-checked against the number of ingredient links that same table prints.[1] Three things break a naive count here:
- A comma inside a name. 1,2-Hexanediol is one ingredient. Chop the list at every comma and 44 becomes 45, and 33 becomes 34. The Korean legal disclosure carries the same trap as 1,2-헥산다이올.[1][3]
- An invisible character. Each of the two pages hides a zero-width space after a slash, in Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer on the 44 and in Lauryl Dimethicone/Polyglycerin-3 Crosspolymer on the 33. You can’t see it, and a text tool can split on it.[1]
- Neighbors with the same prefix. Poly C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate is twentieth and Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer is twenty-sixth. Two different ingredients, not one printed twice.[1]
Second, the unit and the name shift depending on where you shop, and neither shift means a different formula.
| Where | Name as printed | Size as printed |
|---|---|---|
| Klairs Korean store | 올 데이 에어리 선크림 | 50g[3] |
| Chicor (Korea) | 올 데이 에어리 선스크린 | 50g[4] |
| YesStyle (export) | All-day Airy Sunscreen | 50ml[5] |
No listing settles what’s stamped on the tube you actually receive. Here’s what is settled: the brand’s own legally required Korean disclosure and the export listing print the same 44 ingredients in the same order, and the ingredient database matches both.[1][3][5] So there’s no separate export formula hiding behind the English name.
The filters come first on this label, not last
Four UV filters, at positions 4, 5, 7 and 8 of 44. Nothing above them and nothing between them carries a filter tag.
| Position | Ingredient as printed | Name the database also prints for it |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate | Uvinul A Plus, DHHB |
| 5 | Polysilicone-15 | Parsol SLX |
| 7 | Ethylhexyl Triazone | Uvinul T 150, Octyltriazone |
| 8 | Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine | Tinosorb S, Bemotrizinol |
Those four are the only rows the database tags as a sunscreen filter, and the third column comes off the database’s own ingredient pages rather than from us.[1][2] For what each filter family covers, our guide to Korean sunscreen filters is the place we keep that explanation.
One name in the top ten looks like a fifth filter and isn’t. Butyloctyl Salicylate is third, and its ingredient page tags it as a solvent.[2] We went through why that trips people up in our beplain review, so treat this as a flag rather than a rerun.
What isn’t anywhere on the 44: titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, or a colorant.[1][3] That’s the plainest difference from the Mineral sibling, whose second ingredient is zinc oxide.[1] If cast is your deciding factor, our white cast guide handles the mechanism properly.
What can’t this Klairs All-day Airy Sunscreen review tell me?
Three things, because an ingredient list can’t answer them. The third one is where people get caught.
Whether the formula was tested for anything. The database page carries two tags, alcohol-free and fragrance and essential oil free, and we read the tag text by eye instead of running a search, because one of them contains an ampersand that a search can skip.[1] A tag means somebody labeled a page. It isn’t a test result.
How the product feels. Klairs describes it in Korean as a light organic-filter sunscreen with no stickiness or heaviness, and the export listing calls the texture lightweight with a natural matte finish and adds the line “Skin irritation test completed.”[3][5] Those are the seller’s words, with no test name, no protocol and no sample size attached to that last one, so we’re leaving them credited to the seller and not turning any of them into our finding. No ingredient list confirms or denies a finish.
Whether the seller’s copy is accurate. Here’s a small demonstration from one page. The export listing’s editor blurb says the formula “contains purslane and ginger extracts,” while its own feature list a few lines below says “Peruvian Ginseng Extract and Portulaca Oleracea Extract.”[5] Purslane checks out: Portulaca Oleracea Extract is on the list at thirty-second, and the database prints Purslane Extract as its other name.[1][2] Neither ginger nor ginseng appears anywhere on the ingredient list printed on that same page.[5] Two blurbs, one page, and they don’t agree with each other.
Eleven ingredients on this list carry the word Extract in their names, and every one of them is printed at position 32 or later, in the last thirteen lines of the label.[1][3] What position does and doesn’t tell you about how much of something is in a bottle is a real question with a real answer, and we worked it through in our piece on sunscreens with skincare actives. We’re pointing you there instead of guessing here.
On the vegan and cruelty-free question: we already went through the certifier databases for this exact product, icon by icon, in our guide to vegan Korean sunscreens. That reading stands and we’re not redoing it in a product review.
Am I the person this label is printed for?
If you want four current-generation organic filters near the top of a short-ish list and no mineral filter at all, yes. If you were reaching for Klairs because you wanted mineral, you want the other bottle.
The Korean disclosure also tells you who stands behind it and what it’s registered as. Wishcompany is named as the responsible seller, the manufacturer is a different company again, it’s made in Korea, and it’s filed in Korea’s functional cosmetics system under three headings: UV protection, brightening and wrinkle care.[3] Those three are regulatory filings, not predictions about your skin.
Price and stock move around, so the export listing is the honest place to check both. Look up the 50ml listing on YesStyle, and check the name for the word Mineral before you pay.
Nobody here has worn this bottle, so the wear report below isn’t ours. It comes from a Korean blogger’s monthly empty-bottle roundup, posted in June 2025, which says at the very top that everything in it was bought with the writer’s own money. Two things to keep straight before you read it. They didn’t finish this tube. They used a bit over half and swapped the rest away at a pop-up store, and they say so in the post itself, so don’t read the empty-bottle framing as a full run. And they have a large following, so this is one person’s experience rather than a test. A second Korean review of this sunscreen, written by somebody else, is quoted in our vegan guide linked above.
One thing we’ll leave open instead of papering over it: no colorant is printed on the ingredient list we read, and the reviewer describes a yellow tint that transferred onto a white jacket and washed out. A label can’t settle that, and we’re not going to invent a reason for you.
FAQ
Did I pick up the mineral one by mistake?
Check the name for the word Mineral. Klairs sells All-day Airy Sunscreen and All-day Airy Mineral Sunscreen as two separate products, and they don’t share a single UV filter. The one in this review lists 44 ingredients with four organic filters. The mineral one lists 33 ingredients with zinc oxide as its only filter, printed second.
Which filters am I actually getting?
Four, all organic, at positions 4, 5, 7 and 8 of the list: diethylamino hydroxybenzoyl hexyl benzoate (Uvinul A Plus), polysilicone-15 (Parsol SLX), ethylhexyl triazone (Uvinul T 150) and bis-ethylhexyloxyphenol methoxyphenyl triazine (Tinosorb S). Butyloctyl salicylate is third and looks like a fifth filter, but the database tags it as a solvent.
Why does my bottle say 50g when the shop said 50ml?
Because the listings print different units. The brand’s Korean store and Chicor both print 50g, and the YesStyle export listing prints 50ml. No listing settles what’s stamped on your own tube. What we did check is that the brand’s Korean disclosure and the export listing print the same 44 ingredients in the same order.
Can I trust the alcohol-free tag on the database page?
Trust it for what it is. The tags mean somebody tagged that page, and nothing beyond it. They aren’t lab results, and a tag on a page has never patch-tested anyone’s skin. Read the tags yourself rather than searching for them, because one of them contains an ampersand that search tools skip.
I want the vegan answer. Where is it?
In our vegan Korean sunscreen guide, linked above, where we pulled up the certifier databases for this brand directly rather than repeating a product page. We’re deliberately not re-deciding that question inside a review of the ingredient list, because the answer doesn’t come from the ingredient list.
Sources
Ingredient lists (INCIDecoder, every entry under this product name opened and counted by hand, 2026-07-29):
[1] Five searches were run and the results combined: “klairs all day airy” (2 product entries), “all-day airy sunscreen” (2), “klairs sunscreen” (2), “airy sunscreen” (18), “klairs” (50). The union contains exactly two All-day Airy sunscreens. The entry we argue from here is “Klairs All Day Airy Sunscreen SPF 50+” (page states “Uploaded by: nil on 05/21/2022”, 44 ingredient rows, four rows tagged Sunscreen at positions 4, 5, 7 and 8: Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate, Polysilicone-15, Ethylhexyl Triazone, Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine; Portulaca Oleracea Extract at 32; tags on the page, checked by reading them rather than by search, are “#alcohol-free” and “#fragrance & essentialoil-free”; no titanium dioxide, zinc oxide or colorant printed on the list): link. The separate product: “Klairs All-day Airy Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+ PA++++” (“Uploaded by: evi00 on 04/09/2024”, 33 rows, one row tagged Sunscreen, Zinc Oxide (Ci 77947) at position 2, same two tags): link. The broad “klairs” search also returned Klairs Mid-Day Blue Sun Lotion SPF 40 PA++, Klairs Mid Day Blue UV Shield SPF 50+ PA++++ and Klairs Illuminating Supple Blemish Cream SPF 40 PA++, none of which is an All-day Airy. How these were counted: one ingredient per row of each page’s ingredient table, cross-checked against the number of ingredient links the same page prints (44 rows against 44 links, 33 against 33). 1,2-Hexanediol carries a comma inside its own name, so splitting at every comma instead returns 45 and 34. Each page also carries a zero-width space, after the slash in Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer on the 44 and in Lauryl Dimethicone/Polyglycerin-3 Crosspolymer on the 33. Set side by side, the two lists share nine ingredient names in total (water, butyloctyl salicylate, niacinamide, glycerin, panthenol, dipropylene glycol, butylene glycol, caprylyl glycol and 1,2-hexanediol), of which only water and butyloctyl salicylate fall at the same position on both, first and third; position two is dibutyl adipate on the 44 and zinc oxide on the 33. Eleven names on the 44 contain the word Extract, at positions 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 41, 42, 43 and 44.
Ingredient pages, for the alternative names and the function tags (quoted from each page’s own “Also-called-like-this” and “What-it-does” lines):
[2] Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate, “Also-called-like-this: Uvinul A Plus, DHHB”, “What-it-does: sunscreen”: link. Polysilicone-15, “Also-called-like-this: Parsol SLX”, “What-it-does: sunscreen”: link. Ethylhexyl Triazone, “Also-called-like-this: Uvinul T 150, Octyltriazone”, “What-it-does: sunscreen”: link. Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine, “Also-called-like-this: Tinosorb S, Bemotrizinol”, “What-it-does: sunscreen”: link. Butyloctyl Salicylate, no alternative name printed, “What-it-does: solvent”: link. Portulaca Oleracea Extract, “Also-called-like-this: Purslane Extract”: link. Lepidium Meyenii Root Extract, which the export listing’s feature line appears to be referring to, prints no alternative name at all on its page: link
Korean legal product disclosure, on the brand’s own Korean store (opened in full; Korean, so use browser translation):
[3] Klairs Korea (Wishcompany), read 2026-07-29, “올 데이 에어리 선크림 50g SPF50+ PA++++”, 19,500원. The mandatory disclosure headed “｢화장품법｣에 따라 기재 표시하여야 하는 모든성분” prints all 44 ingredients in order: 정제수, 다이부틸아디페이트, 부틸옥틸살리실레이트, 디에칠아미노하이드록시벤조일헥실벤조에이트, 폴리실리콘-15, C12-15알킬벤조에이트, 에칠헥실트리아존, 비스-에칠헥실옥시페놀메톡시페닐트리아진, 폴리메틸실세스퀴옥세인, 글리세린, 나이아신아마이드, 폴리글리세릴-6스테아레이트, 세테아릴올리베이트, 마이크로크리스탈린셀룰로오스, 판테놀, 실리카, 솔비탄올리베이트, 다이프로필렌글라이콜, 하이드록시아세토페논, 폴리C10-30알킬아크릴레이트, 폴리글리세릴-6베헤네이트, 알란토인, 카프릴릴글라이콜, 스테아릴알코올, 글리세릴스테아레이트, 아크릴레이트/C10-30알킬아크릴레이트크로스폴리머, 트로메타민, 아데노신, 세테아릴알코올, 다이소듐이디티에이, 부틸렌글라이콜, 쇠비름추출물, 알로에베라잎추출물, 참마뿌리추출물, 다시마추출물, 제비꽃꽃추출물, 당느릅나무뿌리추출물, 다이포타슘글리시리제이트, 마카뿌리추출물, 1,2-헥산다이올, 구기자추출물, 비치스트로베리추출물, 불가리스매자뿌리추출물, 검은뽕나무열매추출물. Same panel: “내용물의 용량 및 중량” as “50g”, “화장품제조업자” as “나우코스”, “화장품책임판매업자” as “위시컴퍼니(주)”, “제조국” as “대한민국”, shelf life as “제조일로부터 30개월 / 개봉 후 12개월 이내”, and the functional-cosmetics line as “자외선 차단, 미백, 주름개선 기능성 화장품”. Counted the same way as the database entries, so 1,2-헥산다이올 is one ingredient and splitting the Korean string at every comma returns 45 rather than 44. Set against the English list, both run to 44 entries, both open with water and close with black mulberry fruit extract, and on both the four UV filters land at positions 4, 5, 7 and 8. The brand’s own one-line description on the same page, left credited to the brand: “선크림 특유의 끈적임이나 갑갑함 없이 가벼운 유기자차 선크림.” link
Korean retail listing, for the name as sold (opened in full):
[4] Chicor (Shinsegae), read 2026-07-29, listed as “올 데이 에어리 선스크린 SPF50+ PA++++ 50g”, 판매가 19,500원 marked down to 9,750원, with the discount window printed as “할인기간 : 2026.07.20~2026.07.31”: link
Export listing and its seller copy (opened in full; seller claims stay credited to the seller):
[5] YesStyle, read 2026-07-29. Structured data on the page gives the name as “All-day Airy Sunscreen”, brand “Dear, Klairs”, price 14.85 USD, availability InStock; the page prints 50ml, “Catalog No.: 1113220634” and “Imported from: South Korea”. Its Major Ingredients panel prints the same 44 in the same order as the Korean disclosure. Seller copy quoted as printed, and not adopted by us: Editor’s Note, “The vegan-friendly formula contains purslane and ginger extracts for soothing and hydrating effects” and “The lightweight gel texture absorbs quickly into skin for a natural matte finish”; Features, “Contains various soothing plant extracts including Peruvian Ginseng Extract and Portulaca Oleracea Extract”, “Lightweight, comfortable texture that does not feel greasy on skin” and “Skin irritation test completed.” Neither “ginger” nor “ginseng” appears in the ingredient list printed on the same page: link
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