Is it make up or is it sun protection?
Some beauty news: I know we have all used tinted sunscreen and thought this should come in more colours. Well La Roche Posay has gone and done it with a mineral skin tint that comes in 5 shades. They are Fair, Medium, Tan, Brown, and Dark Brown. There are testers so you can swatch before buying. I picked up Medium and Brown for myself. Fair is quite fair and Tan is peachy.
I would say that this is make up.
La Roche-Posay Anthelios Mineral One SPF 50+ Daily Cream is a Tinted mineral sunscreen. The name implies that you can put on one product on and have some protection and make up on your face.
The main ingredient is 13.6% titanium dioxide. The back of the bottle says 12 hour coverage, 24 hour hydration. It also says that it is suitable for sensitive skin and that is because this is a mineral-sunscreen product. It is $30 for 30 ML and made in France.
This “daily cream” is so pigmented that there is no way to use the recommended amount of sunscreen in order to have optimal sun protection. Two fingers worth looks ridiculous. I would only purchase this if you need a foundation with SPF in it however if that is your goal, then you may as well buy foundation from a company that makes foundation. I would recommend Maybelline, It Cosmetics, or Estee Lauder or literally ANY other make up brand. Not only will you be able to potentially save money because some of the drugstore foundations with SPF are cheaper, you’ll also be able to buy a foundation that matches your skin tone better.
Personally this was a fail for me, and I would not recommend it. The tints are not very well thought out. There’s no way that these five intensely pigmented colors can represent the majority of skin tones these days, and I would like using them more if they weren’t so pigmented because then I could apply lots and really rely on them for my son protection but because they’re so tinted I really can’t use that much and I need to use a regular sunscreen anyways.
Anyway, people are excited about this and probably only applying it to supplement their regular sunscreen.
I just wouldn’t use it myself.
