A mineral sunscreen tint in SPF 30 with titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, available in four shades to match different skin tones, designed to provide sun protection with light coverage and a hydrating finish.
Multiple shades that actually blend across skin tones earn consistent praise, with dermatologists and influencers highlighting the mineral filters, hydrating formula, and lightweight feel under makeup. The tradeoff is shine: those with oily skin or a preference for matte finishes may find it too dewy and glossy, though the same moisture-rich texture makes it excellent for dry skin and works as a foundation replacement for many. SPF 30 is the one limitation some note when SPF 50 would be preferred.
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"It stayed pretty shiny on my skin it stayed pretty oily feeling on my skin pretty wet and damp didn't really dry back 100% on me"
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"I gotta say I love this one because of how makeup went on over it it really was great under makeup"
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"The winner of my mineral sunscreen testing video for this year was Neutrogena mineral UV tint face liquid and this is a great little sunscreen"
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"Neutrogena Pure Screen Tinted is a great tinted mineral sunscreen and it won my sunscreen testing video a couple of years ago. It comes in three shades so you can get a shade match, and it is a really hydrating sunscreen, so great for people with dry skin. It is normally around $20 and is now $13.88."
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"One of my favorite tinted mineral sunscreens is from Neutrogena, it's an SPF 30 and it comes in four shades. Usually tinted mineral sunscreens come in one shade and you can't get a shade match, but with this one you can definitely find a shade match, and it's very very hydrating."
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"Another one that I like a lot is the Neutrogena Pure Screen. This is also a tinted mineral."
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"The pigments function to hide the white cast and it does that really really well. There's no white cast with any of these. It rubs in so quickly and easily and it just looks great on the skin. It's not super shiny. It does give you a little bit of a healthy dewy glow. So I think it's a really great sunscreen to wear on its own. I've been reaching for it so much for a casual Saturday when I don't want to wear any makeup. I can just put this on and go, and I really like that about it."
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"It rubs in and spreads easily and evenly over the skin with no balling, no pilling, no streaking. There are no problems around the hairline or the eyebrows, there's no white cast, there's no smell, and the finish is pretty luminous. It does still feel a little bit greasy and a little bit oily on the surface of your skin even after twenty minutes of dry back. Foundation goes on over this really beautifully and looks natural and really nice. The shine does come through the makeup."
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"Another really great sunscreen to pick up at the drugstore is the Neutrogena Mineral UV Tint. This is an all mineral SPF 30, also tinted, and it comes in four shades as well. This one retails for $20 for 1 ounce. This is going to be a lot more hydrating with a really super glowy, dewy finish. For me, it was like a little too glowy and dewy, especially at the end of the day under makeup. But I did really enjoy it and I felt like it looked youthful under my makeup. It's a really good sunscreen."
"Incorporate a tinted sunscreen like Dermatologist's Universal Tinted, EltaMD UV Clear, Neutrogena and Beauty of Joseon have different shades, which I love."
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"I love that they have multiple tints available for my patients with different skin tone so I give them a big thumbs up this past year for that I've praised them online for doing that"
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"And then recently Neutrogena has done a good job I feel like they're ahead of the game they say they're late to the game but I think they're ahead of the game by having multiple shades of tint"
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"I really have to commend Neutrogena for making a tinted sunscreen line"
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"Incorporate a tinted sunscreen like Dermatologist's Universal Tinted, EltaMD UV Clear, Neutrogena and Beauty of Joseon have different shades, which I love."
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"I have really appreciated the Neutrogena coming out with the mineral UV tint with vitamin D SPF f30 and I love that they have different tints here we have mild medium deep and deep tones"
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"This has sheer coverage and is available in four shades. I've tried two of them, light and medium, and what I've always really appreciated is that they don't pull orange like so many other tinted sunscreens. They have a truly neutral undertone."
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"The Neutrogena Purescreen Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid with SPF 30 is a great option and a sunscreen that I really enjoy reaching for when I want a little bit of tint."
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"My favorite affordable tinted sunscreen is on sale, the Neutrogena Purescreen mineral UV tint with SPF 30."
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"She calls this an amazing tinted sunscreen and featured it in her drugstore tinted sunscreen showdown, where she showed how it applies, swatches, and comparisons to other drugstore tinted sunscreens."
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"It has a very runny, liquidy texture with a bit of an oily slip, but overall feels moisturizing and doesn't feel greasy. It's not completely weightless on my skin, so if you want a tinted sunscreen that dries down to feel like nothing, you may not love this. What I love is that it comes in four different shades, which is currently impossible to find in other drugstore tinted sunscreens, formulated intentionally to lean neutral, and it offers sheer coverage with a glowy finish."
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"For tinted sunscreens, my current favorite is the Neutrogena Purescreen+ Mineral UV Tint. This is very liquidy and runny and it gives you a really nice glowy finish, and I love that it comes in four shades."
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"It's also available in four shades, and the shade light is nearly perfect for my natural skin tone, I feel like this is probably the best tinted sunscreen match I've ever found for my fair skin. It does have a little bit more of an oily feel to it when applying, but it's something I'm okay with because it doesn't leave my skin looking super oily or greasy, it just has a very nice glowy finish, and it's one I personally recommend over the Bliss one."
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"It comes in four shades, she has light and medium, both neutral in undertone, which she thinks is great. It offers sheer coverage with a really nice glowy finish. She names it the winner of the tinted sunscreen showdown because it has multiple shades and doesn't have any glare or layering issues, it feels nice, applies nice and looks nice, with none of the tradeoffs the other sunscreens in the video had."
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"This tinted sunscreen stands out because it comes in four different shades, which isn't something you can currently find at the drugstore from other brands, so I love that Neutrogena came out with this. It's an extremely liquidy tinted sunscreen and it's not the lightest, whitest sunscreen I've tried, so I personally just like using this as a sunscreen topper, laying down an untinted SPF 50 first and then going in with one layer of this to balance out my skin tone."
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"This is a great tinted pure mineral sunscreen"
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"And then the second one is the Neutrogena pure screen now this is a newer range yeah I think you like it as well and it comes in multiple Shades four Shades to match your different skin tones and it does not leave a white cast"
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"I really like this one because the finish ends up being really dewy and kind of just luminous and hydrating looking. This is a really great option for your kind of like no makeup makeup days where you want just a little subtle coverage over the skin but you don't want to really put on a bunch of makeup. This does a good job covering some subtle redness on the face which I definitely have. I get lots of compliments on my skin when I have this on."
"I think unfortunately Neutrogena is discontinuing these pure screens. I'm hoping that they come out with them again and rename them and basically put them in a better bottle. That's what I'm hoping for because I love these."
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"This one from Neutrogena is a 2023 skincare favorite it comes in four Shades and it Blends into the skin nicely I love that it's water resistant it looks really good"
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"The mineral pure screen I believe is fragrance free"
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"I finished another tube of the Neutrogena pure screen mineral UV tint SPF 30. this formula I adore from Neutrogena"
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"I got some more of my Neutrogena tinted mineral pure screen love this I like the shade medium"
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"Neutrogena pure screen it is a tinted mineral sunscreen water resistant that would be another great option"
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"I think unfortunately Neutrogena is discontinuing these pure screens. I'm hoping that they come out with them again and rename them and basically put them in a better bottle. That's what I'm hoping for because I love these."
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"It's also really good it comes in five different shades um it's water resistant and the iron oxides that offer The Tint can protect you against visible light"
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"You also have neutrogena's pure screen tinted sunscreen comes in four Shades"
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"Neutrogena's pure screen plus this is a tinted water resistant mineral sunscreen four different shades this is an all mineral one um and I think they did such an excellent job on this sunscreen in terms of creating a formula that is not chalky or casty"
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"I love these pure screen four Shades iron oxides are going to be the inactive ingredient"
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"My all-time favorite that's great but I love love love the tinted, the UV tint. This is really good. It was like eighteen dollars when it first came out but it's come down in price."
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"This year I've just been so in love with the Neutrogena purescreen. It comes in four shades, light, medium, medium deep, and deep. The medium really looks pretty good for me and the light also works well. These tinted mineral sunscreens from Neutrogena don't have that orangey hue to them, and they're easy to tolerate around the eyes, as is the case with mineral sunscreens. It doesn't have niacinamide or hyaluronic acid, so that's another great option if you have issues with those ingredients."
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"If you're going to be outside running, biking, or in the pool, you're going to need a water resistant sunscreen. I highly, highly, highly recommend the Neutrogena Pure Screen tinted mineral sunscreens, those are great."
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"That's roughly the price of the Neutrogena Purescreen tinted sunscreen, I would go with that. The tint in the Neutrogena one that I like so much offers some protection against visible light, which can lead to more stubborn hyperpigmentation in deeper skin tones."
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"A water resistant tinted sunscreen you should try is the Neutrogena Purescreen+. It comes in four different shades. I just repurchased it on Amazon and I love it."
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"I complained about the Neutrogena tinted sunscreen, it makes a mess."
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"But the packaging on those is messy, if you're not careful when you squeeze the tubes a lot oozes out and ends up wasting product, they don't have the mix of antioxidants like the sodium ascorbyl phosphate and licorice root compounds, and they were on the pricier side, more expensive per ounce than the Eucerin one."
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"I love this, it is a zinc and titanium dioxide mineral sunscreen with a tint. This does not have niacinamide, so if you find niacinamide burns and stings you're good here. The formula is pretty no nonsense, no fragrance. I've been very impressed with these, they have very good spread on the skin but they're not overly shiny, they just give the skin a nice healthy demi matte finish, a nice base for makeup."
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"I'm down to the last dregs of the light shade of these Neutrogena UV tints, and I already finished the medium shade, so I'm going to have to reorder them."
"I'm coming in with this new tinted sunscreen from Neutrogena. I've really been loving these, the Purescreen. They come in a few different shades."
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"I've been loving the tinted mineral sunscreens from Neutrogena so much that I've taken a break from the one I usually wear."
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"You guys were asking where you can get the Neutrogena tinted mineral sunscreen that I reviewed for y'all, and I'm currently using and loving and adoring it. I find that I do well with the light shade and the medium shade, there's also a medium deep shade and then the deep shade, the deep shade's too deep for me, but the medium deep kind of looks like I have bronzer on."
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"I have yet to come across a drugstore tinted sunscreen that is as good as this, that looks as good as this. It doesn't provide as much in the way of actual camouflage of dark spots or light spots, but it really does blend into the skin, giving a very natural appearance. It is actually quite sheer, there's no cast for me with the shade medium, maybe a little bit at the hairline with the light shade, but I'm still able to wear it and I think it looks good."
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"I recently reviewed for you guys the Neutrogena mineral sunscreens, the tinted mineral sunscreens, and I'm loving those. I'm actually currently wearing one right now. In contrast to the elf ones, the Neutrogena ones are water resistant, but you only get four shades, and they're all mineral, there's no chemical filter in the Neutrogena ones."
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"I've been wearing the medium shade of the Neutrogena Purescreen+ mineral UV tint face liquid, and today I'm trying the light shade. I just love these sunscreen formulas. Even the light shade doesn't leave any cast on me."
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"I'm coming in with the medium shade of the Neutrogena PureScreen+ Mineral Sunscreen. I've been really happy with them, I've been so impressed with how sheer these are. I just love these. I'm so excited because the drugstore has been seriously slacking in a variety of tinted mineral sunscreens, there are only a handful of them, and Neutrogena coming out with these has made me really happy, because this past year we haven't gotten much in the way of new, novel, exciting sunscreens here in the US."
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"The consistency is a slightly thick fluid that takes some time to rub in and can feel a little sticky and stiff. It's SPF 30, which is fine for everyday use, though I'd want a higher SPF for a long day outdoors. I give these a 4.5 out of five for a drugstore tinted mineral sunscreen, so far these win. They're currently going for $16.99, which is on the expensive side for a drugstore sunscreen, but for a drugstore tinted sunscreen that is this good, I think the price is worth it."
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"I'm really impressed with Neutrogena's new tinted mineral sunscreens, four shades. The Neutrogena ones are SPF 30, it's like pluses and minuses compared to the SPF 50 one, but I'm really impressed with them."
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"I've tried this Neutrogena Tinted Sunscreen before and it's pretty good, but it's not like a full package because it's titanium dioxide plus a chemical filter. If you see titanium dioxide but don't see zinc oxide in the ingredients, that's an indicator that it's not likely the most broad-spectrum in terms of UVA coverage. You really want zinc in there as well."
What the evidence says.
Independent of what the gurus think, this is what
the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.
Sunscreen filters
Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.
Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.
What is Neutrogena Purescreen+ Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid SPF 30?
A mineral sunscreen tint in SPF 30 with titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, available in four shades to match different skin tones, designed to provide sun protection with light coverage and a hydrating finish.
Is Neutrogena Purescreen+ Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid SPF 30 worth it?
Yes. All 11 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 92%.
What is Neutrogena Purescreen+ Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid SPF 30's Guru Score?
Neutrogena Purescreen+ Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid SPF 30 holds a Guru Score of 92%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 11 expert reviewers we have collected. It is also Guru Certified, our mark for products that hold broad approval across many expert reviewers.
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