If you’ve ever turned a Korean sunscreen tube around, read the ingredient list, and lost count somewhere past thirty, you’re not imagining things. Most Korean sunscreens carry between 30 and 55 ingredients. A few carry more than 60. The minimalist Korean sunscreen, the kind with a short, scannable ingredient list, is harder to find than…
Search for a fungal acne safe Korean sunscreen and you get two kinds of answers: a checker tool that wants you to paste an ingredient list, and a roundup that calls a product “FA-safe” without showing which ingredient it looked at. We wanted the third kind, so we separated the community rules that rest on…
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Heads up: some links below are affiliate links. If you buy through them we may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. We only point you to what the reviews and the ingredients actually back up. If your skin is sensitive or acne-prone, sunscreen is the scariest step. The wrong one stings,…