I love this sunscreen. It's the best I've ever tried and yes, I've done a lot of experimenting. So it's great because:
1. Sinks into my skin right away leaving a smooth matte finish. I have very combo skin: very dry t-zone due to retin-A, oily noise and sensitive cheeks. I brush on a very light amount of loose powder after using this sunscreen, but more out of habit and to set my makeup.
2. As the previous reviewer said, it contains great other ingredient such as grape seed and Vitamin E. It also does NOT contain parabens, petrochemicals or nut oils.
3. I can use it around my eyes. I don't slather it on thick, but definitely under the eyes with no problem. It is suitable for sensitive skin and children so I guess that's why it's so gentle.
I highly recommend this sunscreen!
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Natralia is an Australian brand stocked mainly in health food stores and some chemists. Their Nourish sunscreen is a physical sunscreen containing 9% micronised titanium dioxide in a base wtih green tea, ginseng and grape seed extracts along with vitamin e and aloe vera. It is supposed to be non greasy and water resistant for 4 hours. It is fairly non greasy, although it does leave the skin looking quite shiny. I have been using it for about a week and find it is fairly easly to remove at night and doesn't block my large, prone to blackhead pores. As I'm using it in winter I can't comment on how well it would work in strong sunlight, but I have used other titanium sunscreens and found they are suitable for strong summer sun. As with all titanium based sunscreens it does leave a slight white cast which would probably make it unsuitable for people with dark skin. I am a brunette with light olive skin and the white cast is very slightly noticable on me, although other people probably wouldn't notice unless I pointed it out. I can get rid of the shine by using translucent powder, and foundation would get rid of the slight white cast, but it's a small price to pay for a physical sunscreen with added antioxidants. Although there are quite a few zinc oxide only sunscreens on the market that don't leave a white cast, I find they all block my pores and are really difficult to remove at night, so I'm going for the titanium dioxide instead. The cost is roughly $15AU for a 100 ml tube. The only downside is that the full ingredients list is not on the packaging, but that is quite common for sunscreens in australia.
Edit: I am upgrading this to a 5 because I have now tried so many australian made physical sunscreens and out of them this is the best, not just becuse it is titanium dioxide only and my skin doesn't like zinc oxide, but because of the nourishing ingredients it contains. I have found that the slight white cast is bearable and if I wash it off using a cream cleanser and a face cloth, it comes off completely and I don't get pimples.
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