Moisturising Sun Lotion SPF 50+

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   lovesickLion6

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   It’s hard to know what to rate this as because the advertising and claims are contradictory. I bought this thinking it was a sunscreen because the front of the bottle makes it look like one, with claims of “SPF50”, “4 hours water resistant”, “protection against UVA/UVB rays” and loads of other claims you only really find on sunscreen bottles, and Beautyheaven described it as such and gave it rave reviews. However, it uses the word “lotion” instead of sunscreen – but it doesn’t call itself a suntan lotion nor look like a moisturiser with SPF, since those tend to be very low SPF and talk more about moisturising properties. Other than the word lotion, this is honestly just straight up advertised as being a moisturising high SPF sunscreen that’s water resistant and will play nice with your appearance – like every other sunscreens claims. When applied to the skin, it looks and smells like any other kind of body sunscreen, but a little less greasy. Touch-wise, after it’s dried down, I’d consider it a slightly greasier version of MECCA To Save Face.

   I live in NZ and bought this because I figured an Australian company would do a good job of creating a suncare product for their much harsher temperatures. Boy was I wrong. The ONLY time I have not burned badly from using this product was when I applied it three times over the course of five hours and didn’t go anywhere near water on a 22C – 24C day, and that still gave me a medium tan (other sunscreens cause me to not tan at all). I also don’t sweat much, but the product still wore off quickly on the patches that I did. If you wade into water, it will disappear instantly. Obviously all sunscreens will even when advertised as being water resistant, but this particular one does it far faster and with more of a vengeance. For some reason, reapplying afterwards to dried skin doesn’t do anything.

   So it’s up to you if you think I’m an idiot or not for considering this a sunscreen when it technically contains the word “lotion” – but I’ll tell you right now that this is a terrible product to use as a lotion. It just looks and smells like sunscreen. It offers a small amount of moisture, but there’s loads of other moisturisers that will do the job and be much better.

   I only recommend this product for people who are going to be out in the sun for two hours or less and they want to get a nice tan – but only if they already tan easily.