I Tried $500 Worth of NEW Mineral Sunscreens So YOU DON'T HAVE TO! SPF Showdown 2026
Freaks of Nature$24.00- “It's a white cream that feels heavy and greasy going on”▶ 4:04
- “The first layer gave a fairly strong white cast. By the time I got the second layer on, very strong white cast, clings to hair, is not good around the hairline, gets all tangled up in your eyebrows, and it just doesn't rub in very well”▶ 4:20
- “After 20 minutes, it didn't change at all”▶ 4:41
- “As a standalone sunscreen, I gave this zero out of five stars”▶ 4:46
- “for other people like surfers, athletes, maybe you would like it”▶ 4:52
Shiseido$39.00- “This is a very runny white liquid. It feels lightweight and slippery, like very elegant skin care going on. I actually love the feel of this one when I'm putting it on”▶ 5:30
- “It does leave a slight white cast and it does rub in unevenly and it feels fairly sticky and greasy”▶ 5:37
- “After 20 minutes, the white cast does settle in a little bit, but not enough for me. Plus, it settles into all my wrinkles, including my neck wrinkles. It does still feel a little bit tacky and heavy even after an hour”▶ 5:50
- “For me, it wasn't wearable on its own”
- “This one gets a zero out of five as a standalone sunscreen”
Project Reef$26.00- “This is a white thick cream that feels thick and greasy going on like butter”▶ 7:11
- “It leaves a strong white cast on the skin and it's very, very shiny”▶ 7:25
- “After 20 minutes, it stays exactly the same, which is to say white, greasy, shiny. Plus, it settles into neck wrinkles”▶ 7:31
- “Can't really recommend this one, mainly because of the white cast that it leaves on me”
Avène$36- “This is a tinted runny liquid that feels like a lightweight lotion. It rubs in easily, but it only comes in one shade, which is way too warm and too dark for me”▶ 8:21
- “It goes on very splotchy and very unevenly”▶ 8:35
- “It never dries back after 20 minutes. It is just coming off on everything”▶ 8:46
- “This one got a zero out of five for me as a standalone sunscreen”▶ 8:52
La Roche-Posay$39.99Anthelios Tinted Mineral Light Fluid Sunscreen SPF 40shade · Lightest Shade
PÜR MINERALS$40.00- “This is a runny tinted liquid. It is heavily pigmented sunscreen that feels pretty moisturizing going on and also lightweight. It's not sticky”▶ 11:48
- “You do have to pay attention because the tint can be a little smeary or patchy if you don't blend it out perfectly”▶ 12:02
- “It does cling a little bit to face hair. It does bunch up around the edges, so it's not great around the hairline or in the eyebrows”▶ 12:09
- “It immediately settles into every wrinkle on your face and your neck. So, neck wrinkles are very visible once I put this on”▶ 12:22
- “It comes off on everything. It does feel slightly drier after 20 minutes, but in that time, I had already left fingerprints all over the house and it still felt very wet on the surface of my skin”▶ 12:30
- “For me, I gave this one a zero out of five just because I could never wear it because of the settling in the neck wrinkles”▶ 12:42
AXIS-Y$18.00- “This is a white mediumweight lotion that feels nice going on, but has a very strong white cast”▶ 13:26
- “It sticks to hair and it immediately settles into every wrinkle, especially neck wrinkles”▶ 13:33
- “This is not wearable on its own for me. I give it a zero out of five as a standalone sunscreen”▶ 13:40
NAELI$32.00- “This is a very pigmented, tinted, thick formula that goes on super streaky. So, you have to really pay close attention when you're applying it”▶ 14:04
- “The tint is a little warm and dark for me. The application is just very uneven, especially around the edges and the hairline”▶ 14:19
- “It just looks bad and it settles into wrinkles, including neck wrinkles”▶ 14:31
- “After 20 minutes of dryback, this one, like many of the other kind of greasy ones, it just doesn't dry back. It still feels heavy. It still feels greasy when I touch it. It comes off on my fingers”▶ 14:39
- “This one gets a zero out of five for me”
Ranavat$65.00- “This is a runny tinted liquid. It feels like a lightweight oil going on, but does leave a slight white cast”▶ 15:21
- “The finish on this one is super shiny and greasy looking”▶ 15:29
- “This one smells like a combination of rotting bananas and lighter fluid. And no, it doesn't dissipate after 20 minutes”▶ 15:37
- “This one clings to face fur. It looks streaky. It doesn't dry back. It's super slippery. My face just felt wet, oily, greasy. My hair was sticking to it and the smell”▶ 15:48
- “For me, zero out of five. Completely unwarable”▶ 16:01
Clean + Kind$23.99- “This is a fluffy white cream that feels like buttercream frosting going on the skin. It glides over the skin, but it does feel super greasy and it does give a super shiny finish”▶ 16:17
- “It has surprisingly little white cast considering that it's got 25% zinc oxide in there”▶ 16:32
- “It smells like a candy necklace. The smell on this one isn't like bad per se. It's just so strong trying to cover up the tallow smell. It just is overly cloyingly sweet”▶ 16:45
- “After 20 minutes of dryback, I felt like, wait, now it's looking really streaky and really spotty. And if I looked at it in my really up close mirror, I could see little tiny white specks all over my face”▶ 16:58
- “If you have super dry skin, you love the whole Tallow Clean thing, then this could be a great sunscreen for you”▶ 17:08
Kiehl's$45- “This is a white runny liquid that feels like an emollient skin care serum going on. Skin feels slightly tacky when first applied. It has surprisingly little white cast”▶ 18:33
- “After 20 minutes of dryback, this one still felt slightly tacky, but skin felt moisturized, not oily or greasy or sticky”
- “At the 4-hour check-in, I was already not loving it. It had started feeling drying a couple hours before”▶ 19:17
- “It had been coming off under my nails all day long. And it was getting a little bit shiny, but also felt so so very drying throughout the day that I really couldn't wait to wash my face”▶ 19:46
- “I really can't fully recommend it to people with dry skin”▶ 19:58
- “I'm going to give it three out of five for a standalone sunscreen and two out of five for how it did with makeup”▶ 20:04
Everyday Sunscreenshade · Sandy- “This is a tinted sunscreen with a lotiony texture that rubs in easily but feels slippery, wet, and a little bit oily going on the skin”▶ 20:40
- “The tint covers any white cast. It evens the skin tone a bit, but it doesn't look like a heavy pigmented covering of makeup”▶ 20:47
- “After 20 minutes of dryback, I felt like this hadn't really dried back at all. It still felt fairly oily and wet on my skin, and it just wasn't sitting quite right on my skin. It looked like tiny speckles on my forehead, and it was still very shiny”▶ 21:01
- “I felt like the makeup went on really well over it. And that overall it looked really, really nice”▶ 21:27
- “At the 8 hour check-in, I thought it was very worn off, very shiny in my T-zone. For me, it had felt oily on my skin all day”▶ 21:38
- “It didn't settle in neck wrinkles. It didn't have a white cast”▶ 22:03
- “As a standalone sunscreen, I'd give it three out of five under makeup. Three out of five”▶ 22:08
EltaMD$52.00- “This is an off-white lotion with a slight tannish greenish tint. It looks white going on, but rubs in almost clear, leaving only the slightest white cast on me”▶ 22:40
- “It feels like a normal skin care lotion going on. It feels moisturizing, not tacky or sticky”
- “I put makeup on over this one and I was really wowed when I put the makeup on. Can I just say, EltaMD, you've outdone yourself on this one. Makeup goes on over this super beautifully. It looks smooth. It looks skin-like. It feels dry and set. I am so happy with it”▶ 23:14
- “Foundation goes on over this so beautifully. It almost acts like a primer”▶ 23:26
- “At the 8-hour check-in, I was not as excited about it anymore. The foundation was very worn off everywhere and it felt so drying throughout the day. And throughout the day, I thought my skin looked very textured every time I saw myself and it was modeled on my forehead and giving polka dot pores everywhere else”▶ 23:48
- “As a standalone sunscreen, I'm giving this a three out of five because it was so drying throughout the day. with makeup. Three out of five because it didn't look terrible at the end of the day, but it didn't look great either”▶ 24:14
Tower 28 Beauty$32.00- “This is a tinted lotion that glides over the skin and rubs in super easily”
- “The tint, I would say, doesn't really give any coverage. It's not super heavily pigmented. So, it looks very natural on the skin. The tint is mainly there to just hide any white cast, which it does very effectively”▶ 25:00
- “This feels very much like skin care going on, and it just looks like your skin”
- “The foundation goes on over it really nicely, just like it normally would”▶ 25:24
- “At the 8-hour check-in, I thought it was very worn off on my nose, my chin, my cheeks, above my eyebrows, was shiny in my T-zone. It was giving me speckly polka dot pores on my cheeks and on my chin. So, this definitely shortens the wear of foundation”▶ 25:53
- “It didn't feel drying to wear throughout the day”▶ 26:12
- “As a standalone sunscreen, I would give this one a four out of five. As a sunscreen to wear under makeup, I'm going to give it a three out of five”▶ 26:19
CeraVe$16.99- “This is a very light green tinted runny lotion. It rubs in very easily. It does leave a very very minimal white cast”▶ 27:39
- “It feels like a lightweight elegant skin care lotion going on. It does have a fairly shiny finish though and it's good around hair and it's not thick or greasy feeling”▶ 27:55
- “After 20 minutes, it dries back and doesn't feel sticky or heavy on the skin. There was no settling into wrinkles”▶ 28:09
- “Makeup goes on over this really well. The radiance does come through the makeup a little bit, but adding the foundation over it reduced the amount of settling in wrinkles that I would normally get”▶ 28:38
- “At the 8 hour check-in, I could see from a distance that it was really worn off on my nose and my chin, but it was in place on my forehead and my cheeks. It wasn't doing anything super naughty like sliding around or getting super shiny or settling into wrinkles”▶ 29:12
- “This one had felt a little bit drying around my chin at about the 8 hour mark”▶ 29:32
- “For this one, because it does still leave that tiniest little bit of white cast, I'm going to give it four out of five as a standalone sunscreen. And for under foundation, a four out of five”▶ 30:05
- “This is an awesome sunscreen for dry skin people. It's also an awesome sunscreen for more oily skin people or combo or normal. It's super hydrating”▶ 30:37
- “This one is a purely mineral sunscreen, meaning it doesn't have any of the sunscreen boosters in it”▶ 30:50
- “It wears beautifully under makeup. It'll hydrate your skin all day”▶ 31:02
- “It is a little bit heavier and a little bit tacky, you know, kind of oily feeling, and it doesn't really dry and set”▶ 31:08
- “This just wears under makeup way better than the Tower 28, and it's an SPF 50 instead of an SPF 30”▶ 31:24
- “This is such a beautiful sunscreen on the skin. You put it on and it almost immediately dries back and sets. Feels great on the skin. Doesn't feel drying”▶ 32:23
- “Put it on. It's tinted. You're dry and set. You're ready to go. It's a one and done”▶ 32:42
- no stillAustralian Gold$12.99
- “This is such a great sunscreen for like normal to oily skin people because it's so dry feeling”
- “If you have enlarged pores, it's so smoothing on your pores”
Maybelline$15.99- “It's really longwearing on my skin, and it lasts a solid 10 hours over my current holy grail sunscreen”▶ 3:19
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