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No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence SPF 50.

Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence SPF 50
Sunscreen

About this product

A lightweight Korean chemical sunscreen with SPF 50 and PA++++ protection, formulated with soothing ingredients like centella and heartleaf extract for oily and acne-prone skin.

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Oily skinAcne-prone skin
Sunscreen

The Guru Index verdict

82%

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Approved · 82%
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What the gurus are saying

Gurus overwhelmingly praise this sunscreen's weightless, invisible texture and fast absorption, highlighting its comfortable wear even under makeup and on sensitive skin. The ingredient blend earns consistent approval for soothing properties and lack of fragrance. One reviewer noted occasional pilling and questioned whether the minty green cast and niacinamide concentration deliver meaningful benefits; another found it slightly drying. Overall, the community considers it an exceptionally wearable daily sunscreen, though texture consistency may vary by application or skin state.
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"I am so obsessed with this sunscreen. I would have so many more empties of this one if it wasn't always sold out. This is the best sunscreen hands down. If you're someone who has more oily skin, you don't want your sunscreen to look super shiny. You want an ultra lightweight experience with a ton of beneficial ingredients for your skin. It really is just the best of the best. And I found myself returning into it so much. I would definitely be consistently using this one every single day."
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"I am so obsessed with this sunscreen. I would have so many more empties of this one if it wasn't always sold out. This is the best sunscreen hands down. If you're someone who has more oily skin, you don't want your sunscreen to look super shiny. You want an ultra lightweight experience with a ton of beneficial ingredients for your skin. It really is just the best of the best. And I found myself returning into it so much. I would definitely be consistently using this one every single day."
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"The Numbuzin No. 1 Clear Filter Sun Essence SPF 50 not only is it ultra lightweight, does not leave your skin looking greasy or heavy afterwards, it has so many good soothing antioxidant-rich ingredients that I feel like is just the perfect addition to any sunscreen or skincare routine. In my yearly roundup videos that I do where I highlight all of the best skincare products of each year, this one has consistently made it on the list. I'm so obsessed with it. I keep running out of this one and I keep having to repurchase it. It is so freaking good. If you're wanting, in my opinion, like the ultimate Korean sunscreen experience, this is the best. I adore it. I'm going to keep repurchasing it and highly, highly recommend it."
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"They have literally my favorite sunscreen ever. The Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence SPF 50. I've talked about it in so many different videos."
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"This one's got licorice root, niacinamide, aloe, and centella. It's really quite nice and pretty affordable. They've got the same filters, so they're pretty effective. If I would be on a boat for five hours, this is the one I'm going with."
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"This one's got licorice root, niacinamide, aloe, and centella. It's really quite nice and pretty affordable. They've got the same filters, so they're pretty effective. If I would be on a boat for five hours, this is the one I'm going with."
Avene RetrinAL Ceramide Lipid-Replenishing Balm & Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence
"It's a newer product packaging name of their sunscreen which is actually really quite nice and very invisible and non-greasy feeling. It feels really nice on my skin. I've been using it for the last few days and I'm really enjoying it. It just works really nice over moisturizer and vitamin C and isn't drying at all."
Avene RetrinAL Ceramide Lipid-Replenishing Balm & Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence
"It's really quite nice and very invisible and non-greasy feeling. It feels really nice on my skin. I've been using it for the last few days and I'm really enjoying it. It just works really nice over moisturizer and vitamin C and isn't drying at all."
Avene RetrinAL Ceramide Lipid-Replenishing Balm & Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence
"It's actually really quite nice and very invisible and non-greasy feeling, it feels really nice on my skin. I've been testing it out and I'm really enjoying it. It just works really nice over moisturizer and vitamin C and isn't drying at all. This sunscreen I've been really enjoying. It's very nice and very gentle."
~Mixed
"I tried a new sunscreen that was this Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence. It's an SPF 50 with a PA+++ rating, it's a Korean sunscreen and uses all the Asian European filters and it's got all the same sunscreen ingredients as my Haru Haru Airy Fit Black Rice that I love so much. But it does have like a slight minty green cast to it and it does have some skin soothing ingredients, so I think it's meant to be kind of like an anti-redness, skin soothing sunscreen. But it also includes niacinamide, which if you're also getting a lot of niacinamide in your skincare from other places, it might be over the top, too much niacinamide. I didn't find this irritating, I didn't find it particularly soothing, I didn't think that the green cast really did anything to hide any redness in my skin. For me it was just okay and I did find it slightly drying by the end of the day. I thought it was okay but have not been reaching for it on a regular basis."
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"This sunscreen really impressed me from the texture to the ingredients to the performance. It claims to have a weightless texture, it's appropriate for oily skin as well as acne prone skin, it claims to have a soothing refreshing cooling effect on skin, and it works really well under makeup. This is a fully chemical sunscreen using five all new generation chemical filters achieving SPF 50 plus PA+ 4 protection."
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Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"This sunscreen really impressed me from the texture to the ingredients to the performance. It claims to have a weightless texture, it's appropriate for oily skin as well as acne prone skin, it claims to have a soothing refreshing cooling effect on skin, and it works really well under makeup. This is a fully chemical sunscreen using five all new generation chemical filters achieving SPF 50 plus PA+ 4 protection."
Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"This sunscreen contains heartleaf extract and other ingredients that have really good anti-inflammation properties, they can soothe redness on the skin and have a calming effect. The sunscreen does not contain any forms of fragrance, no essential oils, no fragrant compounds, and no drying forms of alcohol. The texture is so impressive. It's got that gel cream texture, but it's a lot thinner than a traditional lotion or creamy type of sunscreen. There's a hydration gel-like element to this and it spreads really easily and effortlessly across the skin. It kind of almost disappears, and that's really that gel effect, it becomes very transparent. This feels very weightless on the skin. The claim is that it's very lightweight, and it absolutely is. So lightweight, so breathable. The word I'm embracing here is weightless on the skin. You spread it across the skin, you feel that hydration, you feel that thinness, and it starts to absorb very, very quickly into the skin, almost disappearing onto the skin with a very quick dry and absorbency. Absolutely no white cast here. This actually blends really well into the skin."
Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"There's a hydration gel-like element to this and it spreads really easily, very effortlessly across the skin and it kind of almost disappears. This gel effect becomes very transparent but feels very weightless on the skin. The claim is that it's very lightweight, and it absolutely is so lightweight, so breathable. The word I'm embracing here is weightless on the skin. I was very impressed with this. It's not like every other gel cream texture. You spread it across the skin, you feel that hydration, you feel that thinness, and it starts to absorb very very quickly into the skin almost in a way disappearing onto the skin with a very quick dry and absorbency. Absolutely no white cast here. This actually blends really well into the skin. I sometimes get these streaks because I didn't rub it in super well, but absolutely did not occur with this sunscreen at all. Nothing built up around my dark eyebrows or my dark hairline, so I do believe that this would be a very beard friendly sunscreen. It's not going to build up all clumpy and white. No white cast, definitely a very very pleasing lightweight breathable texture that is super impressive. The finish of this sunscreen is something I was really impressed with because I would say there's a hint of dew but it's really not overly shiny. It's not a glass skin sunscreen."
Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"This has a weightless texture on the skin. You spread it across the skin, you feel that hydration, you feel that thinness, and it starts to absorb very, very quickly into the skin almost in a way disappearing onto the skin. Absolutely no white cast here. This blends really well into the skin, so you're not going to get those streaks that sometimes happen when I'm not careful with application. I didn't notice anything built up around my dark eyebrows or my dark hairline, so I do believe that this would be a very beard-friendly sunscreen. The finish is really impressive because there's maybe a hint of dewy finish, but it's really not overly shiny. It's not a glass skin sunscreen. Since this sunscreen is appropriate for oily skin, I love that they've kept that in mind with the finish. There's really not a lot of shininess to this at all."
Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"I really just like how lightweight this is and I have to say this is one of those sunscreens that I can forget that I'm wearing and I love that because my skin doesn't feel irritated, my eyes aren't stinging and burning and running, I don't have a white cast all over my face making me look like a ghost. I'm not being reminded that I'm wearing sunscreen because it's so weightless, it's so comfortable and it's so nonirritating. Sometimes when my skin is inflamed or irritated even some of my favorite sunscreen formulas just don't feel super comfy, they can feel a little itchy and uncomfortable on my skin. I never had that problem with this sunscreen. It's super duper comfortable even when my skin is the most sensitive. I was really impressed that this didn't seem to travel into my eyes, and that tends to be where irritation occurs for me with other sunscreens."
Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"I'm actually not being reminded that I'm wearing sunscreen because it's so weightless, it's so comfortable, and it's so nonirritating, and that's a big win. Sometimes when my skin is inflamed or irritated, even some of my favorite sunscreen formulas just don't feel super comfy. They can kind of feel a little itchy and uncomfortable on my skin. I never had that problem with this sunscreen. It's super duper comfortable even when my skin is the most sensitive. I was really impressed that this didn't seem to travel into my eyes, and that tends to be where stinging occurs for me. I really did not experience that with this sunscreen at all, and I even worked out wearing this sunscreen quite a bit, sweating quite a bit, and I really didn't feel like it migrated into my eyes. This definitely doesn't shift around on the skin. Really good absorbency and very fast as well, and I think that's why it actually tends to work really well underneath makeup. That fast absorbency is something that's not going to shift around or play around with your foundation or your concealer. I think it just settles in the skin so beautifully."
Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"I really did not experience that with this sunscreen at all and I even worked out wearing this sunscreen quite a bit, sweating quite a bit, and I really didn't feel like it migrated into my eyes so I was really impressed with that. This definitely doesn't shift around on the skin, really good absorbency and very fast as well, and I think that's why it actually tends to work really well underneath makeup is that fast absorbency, something that's not going to shift around or play around with your foundation or your concealer. It just settles in the skin so beautifully. However, I did experience some pilling with this sunscreen and it was actually really disappointing because I've been loving so much about this. I mean it's really checking so many boxes but I started to get a lot of pilling when I was testing the sunscreen."
Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"It definitely doesn't shift around on the skin, really good absorbency and very fast as well, and I think that's why it actually tends to work really well underneath makeup. That fast absorbency, something that's not going to shift around or play around with your foundation or your concealer, I think it just settles in the skin so beautifully. However, I did experience some pilling with this sunscreen and it was actually really disappointing because I've been loving so much about this. I mean it's really checking so many boxes, but I started to get a lot of pilling when I was testing the sunscreen and it was very confusing because I wasn't consistently getting pilling, it was only sometimes, it was only some days that I was getting it."
Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"It didn't make my pimples worse, it didn't make my skin congested at all, it didn't clog up my pores. From that standpoint of not aggravating acne and not congesting the pores, I think that it absolutely would be appropriate for acne-prone skin. It's not going to improve your acne, but the sunscreen doesn't make it worse. It is lightweight, it absolutely is. It's good for oily skin. With that really lightweight, quick to absorb texture without that shiny finish, I think oily skin folks are going to enjoy this one. My experience played out that it was really good for makeup, however with that pilling that may or may not occur, I would say check with some reservations."
Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"It's not irritating. It has a slightly hydrating feel as you're applying the product. It's certainly not a heavy and suffocating sunscreen. My final word on this product is I'm very impressed with this, and it really comes down to that weightless texture. I think it actually makes this a sunscreen that's going to be appropriate for a majority of skin types. While it's so weightless and breathable and really comfortable on the skin, if you do have a lot of oil on your skin or if you're dry skinned, just know that this sunscreen is not going to dry you out. I didn't feel any dryness, tightness, or dehydration with this sunscreen, and that's why I really am going to say I think this would be appropriate for oily, combination, balanced, and even dry skin. This weightless texture that you will forget that you're even wearing will feel very comfortable for you. For sensitive folks, it's definitely something that I think could work for you as long as your individual sensitivities aren't on the ingredients list. I found it to be very non-irritating. It didn't sting my eyes. Really great texture. Worked well underneath makeup."
Weightless Sunscreen? | Numbuzin no.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence Review
"Overall very positive thoughts about this sunscreen. I'm rating it a 9 out of 10, and I'm knocking that one point off for the pilling alone."
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