Skinceuticals
Advanced Brightening UV Defense Sunscreen SPF 50
Skin care40mlGTIN 3337875702478
Cleaner pick · Safest sunscreen we have rated
Iunik Global
Centella Calming Daily Sunscreen+40 on ingredient safety, gives up 12 on environmental impact
$24
Ingredient safetyRaters agree
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Ingredient safety
A 49-point gap between the two loudest voices.
45ANSES Endocrine DisruptorsGovernment
vs94Greenlens Tolerance ScreenIndependent
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See why, ingredient by ingredientAll 1541 cleaner options, safest first We show the best 12, including the strongest on each axis.
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Ingredient safety
49 pts apartIndependent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
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Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
A government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Independent — not funded by the brands it rates. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Also screened, nothing found: California Proposition 65 · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · ECHA SVHC Candidate List · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist
Environmental
A government authority. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. Checked this week. about this rater →
Labor
Run by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. This rates Skinceuticals as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
Packaging
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Coverage & match quality
8 ratings · 4 of 4 axes
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What we know about the packaging
Unidentified0 of 1 identified
Nobody recorded what this pack is actually made of beyond “plastic”, so the packaging score is a stand-in for the middle of that range — not a reading of this container.
- Recorded only as “plastic” — no resin code. It could be PET (#1) (widely recyclable) or PVC (#3) (hard to recycle); nothing on record says which, so it counts as 46 out of 100, the middle of that range.
This says how precisely the packaging is described, not how good it is — a fully identified material can still be a bad one.
How we know the packaging
Read from the product photo, not declared by the maker — treat this score as weaker.
The container looks like this, rather than the maker saying so. A photo also cannot show the resin code moulded into the base, so every plastic container reads as “plastic, unspecified” — the cautious end of the plastics range, not a finding about this particular pack.
Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust34 of 35 characterized
Our sources have reference data on 34 of 35 listed ingredients; 1 is uncharacterized in our data — a gap, not a clean bill.
Worth a look (5)
ANSES CMR-listedflagged by 5 of 9 lists →
ANSES endocrine candidateflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Strong contact sensitizerflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
Mild sensitizer for someflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
EU microplastics-restrictedflagged by 1 of 9 lists →
No flags in our sources (29)
- Aqua/Water
- Ethylhexyl Triazone
- Drometrizole Trisiloxane
- Isononyl Isononanoate
- Isopropyl Lauroyl Sarcosinate
- Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane
- Diisopropyl Sebacate
- Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine
- Niacinamidesoothing
- Dimethiconerich occlusive
- Propanediol
- Ethylhexyl Salicylate
- Cetearyl Alcohol
- Silica
- Tranexamic Acid
- Tocopherol
- PEG-10 Dimethicone
- Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate
- Sodium Stearoyl Glutamate
- Caprylyl Glycol
- Butylene Glycol
- Cetearyl Glucoside
- Mica
- Glycerinhumectant
- PEG-20
- Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer
- Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate
- Inulin Lauryl Carbamate
- T-Butyl Alcohol
No data in our sources (1)
Not a verdict — our authorities simply have no reference for these.
What these ingredient tags mean (4)
These describe what an ingredient is, not whether it is a problem. The stance marks above are the ratings; these are not.
commonly dryingAlcohol Denat
- Alcohol Denat: Denatured ethanol: a fast-evaporating solvent that thins a formula and leaves a dry finish. International Chemical Safety Card ICSC 0044, Ethanol (anhydrous), prepared by an international group of experts for the ILO and WHO: "The substance defats the skin, which may cause dryness or cracking." WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (2009) records depletion of the skin lipid barrier by lipid-dissolving alcohols, and also that "the lipid-dissolving effect of alcohols is inversely related to their concentration". Both describe stronger exposures than a cosmetic formula.
rich occlusiveDimethicone
- Dimethicone: A silicone that forms a film on the surface of the skin without an oily feel. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(g), lists dimethicone as a skin protectant at 1 to 30%.
humectantGlycerin
- Glycerin: A humectant, and one of the two ingredients a comparison of moisturiser components found made a significant difference to skin hydration. FDA OTC skin protectant monograph, 21 CFR 347.10(h), lists glycerin as a skin protectant at 20 to 45%. On the humectant half: Jeong CB, Han JY, Cho JC, Suh KD, Nam GW, "Analysis of electrical property changes of skin by oil-in-water emulsion components", Int J Cosmet Sci 2013;35(4):402-410, DOI 10.1111/ics.12059, PMID 23621673, found that "glycerine and urea showed significant skin hydration effects compared with other humectants".
soothingNiacinamide
- Niacinamide: A vitamin B3 form that supports the skin barrier and has anti-inflammatory activity; it turns up in products aimed at acne, rosacea and eczema. Camillo L, Zavattaro E, Savoia P, "Nicotinamide: A Multifaceted Molecule in Skin Health and Beyond", Medicina (Kaunas) 2025;61(2):254, DOI 10.3390/medicina61020254, PMID 40005371, open access: it "is extensively used in ... the treatment of dermatological conditions such as blistering diseases, atopic dermatitis, rosacea, and acne vulgaris", and contributes to reducing inflammation. On the acne evidence specifically: Liu H, Yu H, Xia J, Liu L, Liu GJ, Sang H, Peinemann F, "Topical azelaic acid, salicylic acid, nicotinamide, sulphur, zinc and fruit acid (alpha-hydroxy acid) for acne", Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2020;5:CD011368, DOI 10.1002/14651858.CD011368.pub2, PMID 32356369, records "low-quality evidence" for every nicotinamide comparison it could pool, and none of its four nicotinamide studies measured the physician global assessment at all.
Where this came from
Cruelty-free status recorded from ethicalelephant.com ↗
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