4 Physical Sunscreen Brands We Recommend for Sensitive and Acne Prone Skin

If chemical-based sunscreens don’t suit your sensitive skin, switch over to these zinc-based skin savers. They reflect or absorb the sun’s rays to protect your skin. What can’t penetrate your cells can’t damage them.

Our top picks of physical sunscreens are also filled with further ingredients that bring moisture, calm and other benefits to your skin.

Now, let's dive into our best physical sunscreens for acne prone skin.

*SPF is only one part of sun protection! Always seek shade, and wear sunnies, a hat and protective clothing. Use sufficient sunscreen for all unprotected areas and reapply sunscreen as directed. Frequent re-application or use in accordance with directions is required for effective sun protection. Always read the label. Prolonged high-risk sun exposure should be avoided.

4 Best Sunscreens for Acne Prone Skin in NZ

• Zinc Oxide and Titanium Dioxide are the active ingredients in Medik8’s chemical-free broad-spectrum sunscreen. These two minerals literally come between your skin and the sun to reflect the radiation back where it came from.

• Medik8 Physical Sunscreen adds anti-pollution and anti-A.G.E technology (that means loads of lovely antioxidants) to boost protection against the elements.

• With Zinc Oxide creating the physical barrier, Ultra Violette Clean Screen SPF30 Skinscreen brings additional soothing elements into the mix too like Cucumber and organic Green Tea.

• This mineral sunscreen is suitable for combination to oily skin types too, as Pentavitin helps lock in hydration without clogging pores.

• Keeping it natural all the way, Eco Tan's physical sunscreen solution is vegetarian-friendly and untinted—including that annoying white cast.

• Eco Tan Natural Rose Hip Sunscreen SPF30 is infused with Rosehip, Green Tea, and Vitamin E to nourish and hydrate skin. It's also free of oxybenzone, synthetic ingredients, and chemicals.

• Enriched with superfruit antioxidants, this physical sunscreen also protects the skin from other things that hammer it outdoors, such as pollution.

• Suitable for all skin types, Ella Baché Sunguard SPF 40 comes in a variety of shades to cover up skin imperfections.

• Zinc also helps protect the skin’s natural hydration barrier, absorb impurities, and bring down redness via its anti-inflammatory properties.

• Finally, Lanolin sorts you out with all-day hydration.

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