Ep 73 - The #DamnGoods: The Only Face Sunscreens You’ll Need This Summer, Tested
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
“I’m so pumped to put on face sunscreen!!”, said nobody ever. But the truth is, once you find the Holy Grail that you don’t actually mind wearing under makeup all summer, it’s truly the best anti-aging cream you could ever buy – and probably the cheapest, TBH. That’s why Jill and Carlene tested over 20 of the buzziest face sunscreens on shelves right now, and at the end of this episode, they reveal their top five favourites.
But first, time to phone a friend! Meet skin therapist extrordinaire Dija Ayodele, founder of The Black Skin Directory in London. Dija explains why every skintone needs to wear sunscreen (not just us pasty pale types!) and she shares her very best SPF tips (like why do you need a facial sunscreen instead of moisturizer with SPF, anyway? And what step do you put sunscreen on in your skincare routine?). Find out Dija’s picks for the best face sunscreens for black skin that she uses herself.
In this skin-saving Damn Goods episode, Carlene and Jill dig into their beauty editor handbook to share some Sunscreen 101, like the meaning of broad-spectrum sunscreen and the difference between chemical and physical formulas. Then, stay tuned as they deliver the Coles Notes on this year’s jaw-dropping Consumer Reports sunscreen study, like the sad fact that very few sunscreens actually live up to their claims. Find out which ones made their top five list as well as your hosts! Read more on the Breaking Beauty Podcast blog including the complete list of all 20 face sunscreens tested.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | Hey guys, welcome to the damn goods by Breaking Beauty. |
| 0:09.8 | Our episode featuring what products were loving and not so much. |
| 0:13.8 | Reviews you can use coming right up. |
| 0:19.8 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast. We are coming at you with another |
| 0:24.9 | episode featuring damn good product reviews. Hey Jill, how are you? I'm good, how are you? |
| 0:29.9 | I am good. So in our last damn goods we got all excited and we promised everybody we were going to review |
| 0:36.5 | moisturizers with daily SPF and compare them to facial sunscreens with SPF. Well, I think we were a little ambitious there. |
| 0:44.1 | Absolutely. |
| 0:45.1 | We decided to narrow it down to just the best face sunscreens. |
| 0:51.0 | There is a difference. |
| 0:52.4 | And we put the question to our guest today because I was like if you have a daily moisturizer that's SPF 30 and then you have a face sunscreen that's SPF 30 What in the F is the difference? |
| 1:03.2 | So we phoned a friend. |
| 1:04.2 | Her name is Deja Iodale. |
| 1:06.7 | And she's a British esthetician. |
| 1:08.9 | And she's been on our radar for a bit now. |
| 1:11.3 | I mean, last week she was on Carolyn |
| 1:12.8 | Hirun's Instagram stories and Carolyn called her alleged like legend and so we're |
| 1:18.7 | very excited to have her on our show today. So Deja is a UK-based |
| 1:23.2 | esthetician and founder of Black Skin directory. It's a |
| 1:26.5 | platform servicing the skin care needs of women of color in the UK. |
| 1:31.5 | She's also behind a hashtag and a movement called Protect Your Melanin |
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