Apply evenly on to the face as the final step of your morning skincare routine. Re-apply throughout the day and avoid sun exposure during the hottest hours between 11am and 4pm. We recommend doing a patch test on a wrist or behind the ear before using any new product. Ingredients While the tests themselves are standardised, volunteers are not. People with different types of skintones will volunteer and their skintone has to be judged correctly.

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I think she has a good point with how Asian brands tend to produce different sunscreens with the same name, which leads to confusion for consumers (and IMO it erodes their reputation – I’m very disappointed that Shiseido does this) – it would be great if they didn’t do that! But I disagree with many of the points: I still keep myself informed and aware. Being away from social media doesn’t mean I’ve put my head in the sand. If anything, it’s helped me regain a sense of clarity. I am curious how protecting one’s skin from long-term sun damage and potential skin cancer is a vanity decision? If the choice is vanity (skin color) – can be achieved or at least aided by cosmetics, the effort of daily sunscreen plus additional protections seems to be a lot more effort. In the ISO test you’re meant to use a range of different skin types from phototype I to III. This is now measured using a machine and skin color, but obviously depending on the country you’re going to get different volunteers coming in for these tests. Since a decent amount of time has elapsed since the INCIDecoder blog, I’m a lot less emotional and able to view the situation with a clearer head.

I don’t disagree with the idea of championing better testing, just the assumptions you’ve made on the daily sunscreen wearer. Reply

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Purito put out a statement saying they’ve paused the sale of their sunscreens, and they said that they actually sent off their sunscreens for a test earlier but they still haven’t gotten the results yet. So you can see there are a lot of things in the SPF test that could influence the result that weren’t actually specified before. Korean beauty has taken the industry by storm with innovative products spanning everything from cushion foundations to essences containing skin-hydrating fermented ingredients.Sunscreen development is also really expensive and involves months of trial and error. So say if a particular brand had an SPF 30 formula they were really happy with, but they see that everyone’s moving towards SPF 50+ products now, they might choose to just add extra filters to their existing SPF 30 sunscreen instead of trying to start from scratch again. (This process can still take months and months.) The biggest sunscreen labelling scandal that’s ever happened is with AMA Labs, one of the biggest US-based sunscreen testing labs. There are a few reference sunscreens used for SPF testing, and the labs use these to see how well that test was performed for that particular batch of people. The acceptable variation for each sunscreen is here:

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Note: The US Consumer Reports tests seem to use only water resistant sunscreens and test the water resistance SPF rating (similar to what’s required for the SPF label for any water resistant sunscreen), which includes an additional water soak test. The other consumer tests I looked at for this video (HK, Australian NZ) seem to have done a straightforward SPF test from what I can gather – the tests sometimes aren’t described in a lot of detail outside of the paywall.) Fraud happens It also goes the other way – one sunscreen tested in vivo on skin at SPF 20.3, but all four in vitro methods overestimated it at SPF 31.5 to 42.7. UV cameras? If you have to buy a sunscreen from overseas, then you can’t be certain about the conditions that it goes under on its way to you.So were we all wrong to say the labeled SPF was the best data point we had? Should we stop trusting all Korean sunscreens, or Asian sunscreens? Should we only use sunscreens from large Western manufacturers? Why did cosmetic formulators and scientists who understand sunscreen wait till there were two in vivo SPF tests before saying anything? Racz J, Purito Centella Unscented Sun tests as SPF 19 in two different European labs, INCI Decoder, 3 Dec 2020. It’s also to do with how these cameras work. They use specific UV wavelengths, not the entire spectrum of erythemal UV (which is what’s used for SPF). If you have a sunscreen that happens to be really biased towards protecting against that particular UV wavelength, then it’ll be really dark. If you have one that’s particularly not biased towards that wavelength, it might be really light. But overall, the two sunscreens could end up working around the same. I have struggled in wearing SPF daily because most break me out. My possibly too pragmatic outlook is: even if the Purito or Klairs sunscreen are *lower* than advertised (both of which I have, ironically), it is probably better for me to wear SPF 19 daily than SPF not at all. Reply

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Overall, American and western brands are heavier, and they are more suited toward outdoor use and use when you’re engaging in a lot of activity like swimming. One reason that there could be some benefits in Korean sunscreen over American brands is that they can use more ingredients. In the U.S., sunscreens are a drug according to the FDA. They are tested for how well they can protect from UVB and UVA rays, and the chemicals used in them have to go through a formal drug approval process. Because of that, there hasn’t been a new sunscreen chemical approved since 1999 in the U.S. PURITO Daily Go-To Sunscreen - Formulated with both chemical and physical filters, PURITO’s brand new sunscreen effectively fends off UV rays while leaving skin smooth, hydrated and baby-soft. Perfect when worn with makeup or applied on skin alone, it comes in a lightweight, highly blendable texture that produces a dewy finish while leaving no white cast. Asian sunscreens, including Purito are more lightweight and better-used every day, including when they’re layered with makeup and other skincare products. The two dots on the bottom right correspond to one that tested at SPF 35.1 in vivo on skin, but SPF 12 in vitro on the plate, and another that tested at SPF 61.2 on skin and 29 in vitro.I think this is why we see a lot of sunscreens on the market where they have some really cool new filters, along with some older filters that people aren’t really that into anymore like octinoxate and oxybenzone, and that list doesn’t make a lot of sense if it was actually designed from scratch.