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La Prairie’s Cellular Swiss UV Protection Veil SPF 50 offers essential protection against UV damage that causes skin discoloration and premature aging in a lightweight formula. This lightweight formula is protection and treatment in one.

It is formulated with UV filters and loaded with powerful antioxidants to protect from environmental damage while delivering prolonged hydration. As one of the best sunscreens on the market, it is perfect for wearing alone or under foundation. Designed to be used over your moisturiser, this powerful veil offers protection against exposure to UVA, UVB and the environment, so it is perfect for daily use.

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Medik8’s Advanced Day Ultimate offers highest protection at SPF 50+ PA++++. As one of the best sunscreens, it is elevated with next-generation DNA repair enzymes and is their most advanced 360° environmental shield. Leaving no white cast, this beautifully hydrating cream leaves the complexion with an invisible protective shield, and a non-greasy finish, ready for the day ahead.

The appearance of fine lines and wrinkles are visibly reduced, skin is infused with long-lasting hydration, with future signs of ageing kept at bay. Contains encapsulated photolyase, a light-activated DNA repair enzyme, that helps to support the skin’s natural repair mechanisms after exposure to UV. It also provides skin with the ultimate environmental defence, including protection from blue light, infrared light, glycation and pollution.

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This luxury sunscreen by Dermalogica is a Broad Spectrum SPF moisturiser that shield the skin from pigment-inducing UV light. This medium-weight treatment formulated with a powerful peptide plus Red and Brown Algae help balance uneven skin tone. Cross-linked Hyaluronic Acid helps fortify the skin’s natural moisture barrier, reducing the appearance of fine dehydration lines.

What makes it one of the best sunscreens on the market is the advanced Oleosome encapsulation technology that increases SPF performance while using fewer chemical sunscreens. As a multi-purpose product, it also helps exfoliate surface cells
 to enhance skin tone and eliminate dark spots and provides sustained moisture delivery for optimal hydration.

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With its dual functionality as both skincare and sunscreen, SKINSCREEN™ by Ultra Violette one of the best sunscreens that is expertly crafted to seamlessly integrate into your daily routine. The lightweight formula means it is perfect for acne-prone or normal to combination skin. Whether used alone or layered with serums, moisturizers, and foundation, it provides an additional layer of hydration for your skin.

This Aussie-made product, known as Clean Screen, is a fragrance-free sunscreen with a refreshing gel texture. It is particularly suitable for sensitive and redness-prone skin, as it contains titanium dioxide, renowned for its soothing properties, and plant-derived pentavitin, which delivers a surge of moisture. Offering broad-spectrum SPF 30 protection and boasting a fresh, clean scent, it serves as a compelling incentive to never skip sunscreen again. Use right after your moisturiser and before your makeup.

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 Elemis is one of the most renowned and trusted brands out there. The same can be said for their sunscreen – Daily Defence Shield SPF 30. This weightless lotion offers Broad Spectrum SPF 30 coverage, ensuring your skin remains shielded from harmful UV rays. Whether you’re outdoors or indoors incorporate this best sunscreen in your daily routine to keep your skin healthy and protected.

It has a silky texture that is non-greasy, providing a comfortable application. As one of the leading luxury sunscreens on the market, it is enriched with Elemis’ Enviro-Age Complex, this formula serves as a triple defence system, combating the visible signs of environmental aging. Use on its own or before make up as a base. In fact, this SPF 30 sunscreen proves to be the perfect base for makeup, as it is infused with nourishing coconut and jojoba oils, delivering essential hydration and leaving your skin feeling soft, supple, and well-nourished.

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Based on years of study, Clé de Peau Beauté’s innovative skin cell science mixes priceless components with state-of-the-art Japanese technology to optimise the potential of your skin. Even their opulent packaging showcases the ideals and workmanship that have defined Japan for centuries. Their UV Protective Cream SPF 50+ contains Illuminating Complex EX, a special combination of moisturising and retexturising ingredients that normalises communication within skin based on Intuitive Skin Theory and works to reduce the appearance of damage caused by environmental stress.

As one of the best sunscreens, it offers effective UVA/UVB filtration that helps provide UVA protection against the visible appearance of photoaging and UVB protection against sunburn. Clé de Peau Beauté sunscreen is a creamy yet lightweight in texture and absorbs easily and delivers highly protective sunscreen benefits and a luminous transparent finish that leaves no white cast.  Formulated with beauty treatment ingredients including Wild Thyme Extract, Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract, Scutellaria Baicalensis Extract, Hibiscus Sabdariffa Flower Essence, and Mangosteen Extract to bring vitalizing benefits and an exclusive Clé de Peau Beauté ingredient, Cellular IC Normalizer that enhances conditions for optimal functioning of the cellular ion channel system.

Use before makeup as improves makeup application and ensures a more beautiful foundation finish.

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Sunleÿa G.E by Sisley is an age minimising global sun care SPF 50+ acts like a veritable anti-ageing shield for the skin in the sun, preventing wrinkles, dark spots, dehydration, and loss of firmness, and leaving the skin with a luminous and durable tan. As one of the best luxury sunscreens, it offers anti-ageing benefits thanks to a combination of powerful active ingredients that helps protect the skin from photo-induced ageing.

Using cutting-edge and extremely advanced sun filters, it offers advanced protection against UVA and UVB rays. It has a fresh and silky texture that is absorbed rapidly into the skin, leaving it moisturised with no white traces.

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Dior Solar The Protective Face and Body Oil SPF 15 is a sunscreen oil that goes on easily and evenly, with a light texture that adorns the skin and hair with a shimmering finish. Enhanced with a beautiful glow, skin appears nourished and protected against UVA/UVB rays and external stressors.

If you are looking to tan and need protection from the sun. This luxury sunscreen is the answer, as it allows to tan evenly. Once applied, this oil-in-mist gives skin a very pleasant feeling while also hydrating it. Apply Dior Solar The Protective Face and Body Oil SPF 15 with a spray, for optimal distribution of the sunscreen oil.

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This luxury sunscreen has been crafted in Switzerland with the highest quality pure botanicals. Leaving no white cast, it creates an invisible shield to offer ultimate anti-ageing protection. The SPF contains stabilized sun filters, a blend of three highly effective, non-penetrating sun screens to create an SPF that helps increase UVA and UVB protection by 45 times.

It is a lightweight, mattifying fluid that is free from oil and infused with soothing botanicals. Contains cherry blossom, lemon balm and white tea extract that have antioxidant and soothing properties. Carnosine in the formula helps promote a more firm and toned appearance and soften the looks of wrinkles. Wear it alone over moisturiser as a daily sunshield, or under foundation as a protective smoothing primer.

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The Total Shield by EviDenS de Beauté, a French-Japanese luxury cosmetics brand, works like a protective barrier to preserve skin from the harmful effects of sunrays and pollutant particles. It is one of the best sunscreens you can invest in, due to its clear matte finish, not only can it be worn under the makeup but can also be applied over make up throughout the day for extended protection.

Formulated with powerful active ingredients, The Total Shield provides intensive global protection against harmful effects due to exposure to the sun and pollution, perfect sunscreen if you are out and about in the city. Thanks to its high SPF of 50 and PA++++, it effectively shields against damage caused by UVA and UVB rays. It also preserves skin from infrared and blus light for complete anti-aging prevention.

At the core of its formula lies La Foux Spring Water, which originates in the South of France and is famous for its pureness and incredible moisturizing and curative properties. Suitable for even the most sensitive, The Total Shield acts as a genuine barrier thanks to its antioxidant, anti UVA/UVB, anti-infrared and anti-inflammatory protection.