REVIEW: Banana Boat Ultra Protect Faces SPF 50
Okay so, here's my first review in this year and that's not worth a wow.
Sunblock or sunscreen is a very must for me to go out. No matter if it's just a fifteen-minutes exposure or an-hour. Why you should wear it? According to huffingtonpost.com, in 20 years from now you will regret not having worn daily sun protection because that's when normally people would see the difference between wearing or not. It helps to prevent facial brown spots and skin discoloration, reduce the appereance of facial red veins and blotchiness (for fair skin), and slows down development of wrinkles and aging skin, while your skin also needs protection from harmful rays since the ozone layer is depleting.
So what's the difference between sunblock and sunscreen?
Sunblock is a physical sun protection which its primary job is to protect your skin from UVB (Ultra Violet Burning) rays. Means that this stuff will create a barrier on the outer layer of your skin and reflect all the harmful rays. Since this is a physical barrier, you will find this thick and opaque, oftentimes also leaves a visible white cast. This thing would not comfortable to wear under make up. Its best friend is the beach. If you're going to the beach where the sun exposure will be at its finest level, better choose sunblock over sunscreen. The main active ingredients in sunblock are zinc oxide and titanium dioxide.
While sunscreen is a chemical sun protection which its primary job is to protect your skin from UVA (Ultra Violet Aging) rays. It's suitable for daily use and comfortable to wear under make up. This stuff penetrates deep into your skin layer to work chemically preventing and repairing any long-term damage to the skin. It has the consistency of a normal lotion, so it gives you a lighter feeling than wearing a sunblock. The main active ingredients in sunscreen are avobenzene, oxybenzene, ethylhexyl methoxynnamate, octocrylene, and oxybenzone.
First, Banana Boat Ultra Protect Faces SPF 50 is a sunscreen product, as written on its packaging. Let's just dive into the most important part of a review. Well, my impression is not positive. I don't wear this anymore. Sorry, Banana Boat. It's light, really feels like a lotion, but it's very greasy and oily after applied. If I don't wear any mattifying powder afterwards my face will look like a person who went around the polluted city all day and didn't shower. The only thing I love from this product is its ability to protect from sun exposure, I live in a tropical country and lately I've been studying at an institute in a city where the sun is very devilish, and it always felt very promising when I wear this sunscreen. No slight feeling of worried.
The other reason why I stop this product because it contains paraben in the form of methylparaben and propylparaben. For those who don't know, paraben is a kind of cosmetic preservatives. In some last weeks prior to my discontinuance, I found around eight mysterious bumps on my jawline. I knew it was going to be acnes like usual, but I'd never got as much as that number. 8!! I have my favourite and really-work cure for acne candidates, and the bumps were deflated a night after I applied the cure, so later I found that the bumps appear to the surface only after I applied this sunscreen! Bad, bad. And that's the end of this product to sit on my face ever again.
You can look at its ingredients and theirs safety, click here.
When it says water resistant, it doesn't show it really is. I put some of the product and place my hand under a tap to see how it works. And the area of the products applied turned into milky liquid. I have another water resistant sunblock for body and it would show like some oily molecules sitting on water (very different with this Banana Boat sunscreen).
So, here's my summary.
Pros:
- Ultra protection against sun exposure and UVA UVB rays (and it's very promising I can feel it)
- High SPF
- Lightweight, like lotion
- Leaves no white cast
Cons:
- Very greasy and oily
- Not water resistant as it says
- Contains paraben which can be toxic
- Triggers some acnes and bumps
- Not pleasant smell
- Too heavy to wear daily if you tend to be indoors
- May not suitable for sensitive skin
My personal rating: [2/5]
Repurchase: No.
Sunblock or sunscreen is a very must for me to go out. No matter if it's just a fifteen-minutes exposure or an-hour. Why you should wear it? According to huffingtonpost.com, in 20 years from now you will regret not having worn daily sun protection because that's when normally people would see the difference between wearing or not. It helps to prevent facial brown spots and skin discoloration, reduce the appereance of facial red veins and blotchiness (for fair skin), and slows down development of wrinkles and aging skin, while your skin also needs protection from harmful rays since the ozone layer is depleting.
So what's the difference between sunblock and sunscreen?
Sunblock is a physical sun protection which its primary job is to protect your skin from UVB (Ultra Violet Burning) rays. Means that this stuff will create a barrier on the outer layer of your skin and reflect all the harmful rays. Since this is a physical barrier, you will find this thick and opaque, oftentimes also leaves a visible white cast. This thing would not comfortable to wear under make up. Its best friend is the beach. If you're going to the beach where the sun exposure will be at its finest level, better choose sunblock over sunscreen. The main active ingredients in sunblock are zinc oxide and titanium dioxide.
While sunscreen is a chemical sun protection which its primary job is to protect your skin from UVA (Ultra Violet Aging) rays. It's suitable for daily use and comfortable to wear under make up. This stuff penetrates deep into your skin layer to work chemically preventing and repairing any long-term damage to the skin. It has the consistency of a normal lotion, so it gives you a lighter feeling than wearing a sunblock. The main active ingredients in sunscreen are avobenzene, oxybenzene, ethylhexyl methoxynnamate, octocrylene, and oxybenzone.
First, Banana Boat Ultra Protect Faces SPF 50 is a sunscreen product, as written on its packaging. Let's just dive into the most important part of a review. Well, my impression is not positive. I don't wear this anymore. Sorry, Banana Boat. It's light, really feels like a lotion, but it's very greasy and oily after applied. If I don't wear any mattifying powder afterwards my face will look like a person who went around the polluted city all day and didn't shower. The only thing I love from this product is its ability to protect from sun exposure, I live in a tropical country and lately I've been studying at an institute in a city where the sun is very devilish, and it always felt very promising when I wear this sunscreen. No slight feeling of worried.
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| It's white and feels like lotion |
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| But it's greasy and very oily |
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| Look closer at my hand |
The other reason why I stop this product because it contains paraben in the form of methylparaben and propylparaben. For those who don't know, paraben is a kind of cosmetic preservatives. In some last weeks prior to my discontinuance, I found around eight mysterious bumps on my jawline. I knew it was going to be acnes like usual, but I'd never got as much as that number. 8!! I have my favourite and really-work cure for acne candidates, and the bumps were deflated a night after I applied the cure, so later I found that the bumps appear to the surface only after I applied this sunscreen! Bad, bad. And that's the end of this product to sit on my face ever again.
You can look at its ingredients and theirs safety, click here.
When it says water resistant, it doesn't show it really is. I put some of the product and place my hand under a tap to see how it works. And the area of the products applied turned into milky liquid. I have another water resistant sunblock for body and it would show like some oily molecules sitting on water (very different with this Banana Boat sunscreen).
So, here's my summary.
Pros:
- Ultra protection against sun exposure and UVA UVB rays (and it's very promising I can feel it)
- High SPF
- Lightweight, like lotion
- Leaves no white cast
Cons:
- Very greasy and oily
- Not water resistant as it says
- Contains paraben which can be toxic
- Triggers some acnes and bumps
- Not pleasant smell
- Too heavy to wear daily if you tend to be indoors
- May not suitable for sensitive skin
My personal rating: [2/5]
Repurchase: No.
