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Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50.

CeraVe Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50
Sunscreen

About this product

A mineral sunscreen with SPF 50 designed to provide hydration and sun protection with a non-greasy finish.

Best for

Dry skinSensitive skin
Sunscreen

The Guru Index verdict

55%

Mixed

~Mixed · 55%
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What the gurus are saying

The gurus found this sunscreen hydrating and pleasantly non-greasy, however both flagged a significant white cast as a major barrier. The mineral formula sits noticeably pale on skin and struggles to blend, particularly on deeper skin tones, which may discourage people from applying enough product for real protection. Those with very light skin or those unbothered by visible whiteness may fare better; anyone else may want to try blending in thin layers and waiting a minute or two for the cast to settle, though the experts suggest this remains a real limitation of the formula.
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Key actives & flags

Hyaluronic acidCeramidesSPFFragrance-freeAlcohol-free

Full ingredients

Titanium Dioxide (9.02%), Zinc Oxide (7.0005%), Water, Glycerin, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Dimethicone, Isododecane, Styrene/​Acrylates Copolymer, Glyceryl Stearate, Butyloctyl Salicylate, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Propanediol, Stearic Acid, Aluminum Hydroxide, PEG-100 Stearate, Sorbitan Stearate, PEG-8 Laurate, Ceramide NP, Ceramide AP, Ceramide EOP, Sorbitan Isostearate, Carbomer, Cetearyl Alcohol, Ceteareth-20, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Dimethiconol, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Sodium Dodecylbenzenesulfonate, Myristic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Cholesterol, Palmitic Acid, Phenoxyethanol

Every take, in full

What the gurus are saying.

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"The hydrating mineral sunscreen SPF 50, I've worn this quite a bit and it just struggles to blend with darker skin tones. It's very casty. I would classify this as unwearable. This is a criminal release from CeraVe. Unless you have the lightest skin tones or you really don't care about a white cast, you will otherwise hate this sunscreen. It's a pure mineral, it's like a paste. It just doesn't blend really well at all and it'll sit on your face kind of just all white. You can't tell how it doesn't essentially blend very well with my skin."
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"The CeraVe Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50 is nice and hydrating and it's non-greasy, it sprays nicely on the skin. However, the white cast on this is wild. I don't even think CeraVe had white people in mind when they made this sunscreen. The problem with this mineral sunscreen is that because the white cast is so horrific, sometimes people don't put on as much as they should, and that defeats the purpose since sunscreen is not a little bit goes a long way type of product. Even after you've applied it in thin layers and massaged it in, you still might want to wait a couple minutes just to let the white cast calm down."
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