James Welsh's Sunscreen Guide: What He Rates and Skips

"TirTir's Hydro UV Shield Sunscreen is so good I immediately had to buy another one. It's broad spectrum, full protection and chemical so there's no white cast, and it just feels like a lightweight moisturizer. It has three different weights of hyaluronic acid for nice hydration, plus collagen, aloe vera and panthenol, so you're hydrated, moisturized and soothed with no stickiness or greasiness, and it layers perfectly under makeup. It does have a slight fragrance, which has never been an issue for me. If you want glowy, dewy, well-hydrated, plumped-up skin without irritation or that sunscreen feeling, this one's perfect. I've been reaching for it nonstop over the vast majority of my sunscreen collection."

"Probably my favorite sunscreen of all time, this is a fully mineral tinted sunscreen available in three shades, it's got cica mushroom in it which is very hydrating, and niacinamide, it gives you a very natural looking glow, sometimes people ask if I'm wearing makeup but it's not heavy coverage. I've been using this solidly for about 2 years now, absolutely love it, never going to stop using it."

"One of their best and I would say most iconic products is their unseen sunscreen, purely because everyone can use it, it works great as a sunscreen, a lot of clear sunscreens can be very greasy and oily looking, this one isn't, in my opinion, and it doesn't sting my eyes."

"The Sun Barrier Mineral Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 50 plus PA4 plus is from Prequel and is one of my favorite mineral sunscreens as somebody with rosacea, because chemical sunscreens can flare me up sometimes. This is a mineral sunscreen so those with deeper skin tones will not be able to use this. It does have a slight peachy tint to it which I don't think they did to try and counterbalance that at all, but this peachy hue kind of blends into the skin and leaves this more natural, more even kind of finish to the skin. I am slightly tanned and I do struggle with most mineral sunscreen still to be honest with you; it gives me like this gray finish to my skin. So to have this peachy hue that really glows and shines through those mineral filters is perfect for me. It contains bisoprolol and centella asiatica which helps reduce redness as well, which I find sunscreens always give me, and it's not glass skin, but it has ingredients which reduce skin stress and help with UV exposure, and they have a skin care technology called Lamellar phase emotion which is structurally similar to intercellular skin lipids."

"The ginseng moist sun serum is another amazing sunscreen I've not seen enough people talk about. If you are super oily and you hate layering sunscreen throughout the day and reapplying every two hours because you just feel like other sunscreens get greasy, it sits on your skin, makes you look oily, then you should try this. This is super lightweight. There's an SPF 50+ PA++++ with 30% ginseng root extract which is great antioxidant to help fight free radical damage along with the sun protection, and the arbutin will kind of help even everything out."

"And super goop play. This is a mineral sunscreen"