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Supergoop Protect Tint Daily SPF 50
Sunscreen
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About this product

A lightweight tinted daily sunscreen with SPF 50 and PA++++, featuring 14 shades and a hybrid mineral-chemical filter blend designed to provide subtle coverage while protecting skin.

Full ingredients

Guru Score

78%

Yay

6 experts · Strong agreement
6Gurus
5Yay
1Mixed
0Nay

What they liked

  • Sheer tint blends across multiple skin tones
  • Dries to velvety finish without mattifying
  • Light enough to layer in thin coats

What they flagged

  • Small size at $44
  • Tint can read orangey on fair skin

What the gurus are saying

This tinted sunscreen walks a careful line between complexion product and sun protection, and gurus emphasize which role it actually plays. It's predominantly zinc oxide with chemical filters, comes in 14 shades so most people find a match, and applies so sheer and weightless that it blurs skin without looking like makeup, dries to a velvety finish, and layers beautifully. The standout catch: because it's so light, it's genuinely a skin tint first and sunscreen second, so if sun protection is your priority, apply a full two-finger-length amount and don't expect the same coverage from it that you'd get from a dedicated sunscreen. The small bottle means it runs out fast if used generously enough for real SPF protection, which some gurus flag as poor value for the money.
Synthesized from 6 expert reviews · most recent take March 2025

Type

SunscreenLiquid

Key actives

Hyaluronic acidVitamin ESPF

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

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What the gurus are saying.

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✓Yay
"The application is so easy, it's so light I can apply multiple layers. The tint really is quite subtle, so even after applying two layers, which is what I do with my sunscreens, it's not like you have a lot of coverage. It still looks like your skin, everything is just slightly more evened out. And it dries down giving a kind of skin perfecting and blurring look as well. I do wish these were larger bottles though. This is practically travel size, and it's been great for travel."
All 3 takes from Gothamista
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"The application is so easy, it's so light I can apply multiple layers. The tint really is quite subtle, so even after applying two layers, which is what I do with my sunscreens, it's not like you have a lot of coverage. It still looks like your skin, everything is just slightly more evened out. And it dries down giving a kind of skin perfecting and blurring look as well. I do wish these were larger bottles though. This is practically travel size, and it's been great for travel."
My Summer Beauty Travel Essentials |2024
"I really love this one from Supergoop, their Protect Tint with an SPF of 50 and a PA of four pluses. This gives such a beautiful light vacation tint on the skin. It's barely any coverage but it's just enough to make things look polished and even. This is also so lightweight you can use a significant amount and it will still be quite weightless. Most importantly for this situation it is travel sized. In a normal situation I feel like this is a bit stingy but for travel it's kind of perfect."
My Spring Morning Skincare Routine | 2024
"In fact, the kind of finish it leaves on my skin is a slightly blurred skin perfecting one. It dries down to kind of a velvety natural finish but it won't mattify an existing glow. These are so sheer that actually a couple of shades work for me but the ones I use the most are 22W and 24N. This is mainly zinc oxide but it uses a combination of mineral and chemical UV filters which is the kind I like the most. This is buildable but still remains a nice tint."
✓Yay
"The one was by Supergoop, the Protect Tint. This launch has caused a lot of confusion, people thinking it's a sunscreen with tint or is it a complexion product with sunscreen because they're very different. The complexion products with a bit of sunscreen in them are more opaque and you honestly cannot apply enough as you can see here on my hand to get the type of coverage that you need for a sunscreen. So that's where this lies, it is a complexion product with tint."
All 2 takes from Beyond50Skin
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"The one was by Supergoop, the Protect Tint. This launch has caused a lot of confusion, people thinking it's a sunscreen with tint or is it a complexion product with sunscreen because they're very different. The complexion products with a bit of sunscreen in them are more opaque and you honestly cannot apply enough as you can see here on my hand to get the type of coverage that you need for a sunscreen. So that's where this lies, it is a complexion product with tint."
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"If you're looking for a skin tint, this performed pretty well. If you're looking to use this as a sunscreen, absolutely not going to work. Besides the fact that the packaging is too small and you go through it in a week, it just can't give you enough coverage to give you the SPF protection. I think this is a little bit of a marketing mistake on Supergoop, because a lot of people are confused by this product. [...] The SPF is a combination physical and chemical SPF in this formula."
✓Yay
"It comes in 14 different shades and it's one that I would say does have fairly decent coverage, like light coverage but yet at the same time is buildable so you can definitely layer on more if you want more coverage. It has this really smooth, nice finish and is really suitable for all skin types. Ingredient-wise it does contain interesting ingredients including ectoin, which is an amino acid based ingredient that has some antioxidant and skin barrier protection benefits."
✓Yay
"Supergoop has their Protect Tint Daily SPF 50. It's chemical. [...] It has ectoin in it to defend from oxidative damage and it comes in 14 different shades. It is very very lightweight. If this is going to be your only sunscreen that you are using, make sure to apply enough, which is two full fingers for your full face. [...] I say that because it's light and you want to make sure that you are getting enough of this in order to get the right coverage."
All 2 takes from Dr. Shereene Idriss
Best Sunscreens for Every Skin Type & Lifestyle in 2024! | Dr. Shereene Idriss
"Supergoop has their Protect Tint Daily SPF 50. It's chemical. [...] It has ectoin in it to defend from oxidative damage and it comes in 14 different shades. It is very very lightweight. If this is going to be your only sunscreen that you are using, make sure to apply enough, which is two full fingers for your full face. [...] I say that because it's light and you want to make sure that you are getting enough of this in order to get the right coverage."
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"Supergoop also has their Protect Tint Daily SPF 50, which is [...] a zinc oxide sunscreen. It's a mineral sunscreen."
✓Yay
"I have worn this a couple times and I really do like it so far. I got mine in the shade 14N. The packaging is so cute on this. This skin tint has SPF in it, it's SPF 30, but it is a chemical sunscreen so just wanted to point that out if you're sensitive. I typically am sensitive or more sensitive to chemical sunscreens, however Super Goop, I feel like their products work really well for my skin, so that's why I bought this initially because I just wanted the tint."
✓Mixed
"With tinted SPF, will you have to keep reapplying it? Is it long wearing? For me, that's a high price for a small tub of SPF. And I love Supergoop. I like their SPFs. Not all of them. A lot of them."

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.

Source: DermNet

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

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.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Supergoop Protect Tint Daily SPF 50?

A lightweight tinted daily sunscreen with SPF 50 and PA++++, featuring 14 shades and a hybrid mineral-chemical filter blend designed to provide subtle coverage while protecting skin.

Is Supergoop Protect Tint Daily SPF 50 worth it?

Mostly yes. 5 of the 6 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 78%.

What is Supergoop Protect Tint Daily SPF 50's Guru Score?

Supergoop Protect Tint Daily SPF 50 holds a Guru Score of 78%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 6 expert reviewers we have collected.

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