NerdyMetalhead review for Daily Soft Touch Sunscreen SPF 50+ PA++++

After the great K-Beauty sunscreen scandal of 2020, Purito opted to discontinue the sunscreens they sold at the time and came out with a Community-driven program to help create entirely new sunscreens that would deliver the SPF their previous sunscreens failed to provide. This Sunscreen is half of that promise. Purito's new Daily Soft Touch Sunscreen came out in the spring of 2023 and was made available at local K-Beauty retailer Niasha at the beginning of Mat 2023. It promises a lightweight, silky and fast-absorbing texture for oily and combination skin with a matte, non-sticky finish, no whitecast on the skin and 5 different ceramides. ☀️ List of UV-Filters*: • Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate • Ethylhexyl Triazone • Ethylhexyloxyphenyl Triazine • Methylene Bis-Benzotriazolyl Tetramethylbutylphenol *Ingredients taken from puritoen.com I asked Purito on Instagram who manufactured the sunscreen and whether it was registered as a functional cosmetic in Korea. They informed me about a week later that it was manufactured by a company called The One Cosmetic (주)더원코스메틱. Big shoutout to Odile Monod for her informative content on how sunscreen and cosmetics are regulated in South Korea. 💅 Skin profile: Combination skin with oily T-Zone and drier U-Zone, semi-humid temperate climate (Central Europe), 3x Retinal usage per week. 📦 Packaging: The Daily Soft Touch sunscreen comes in a recyclable plastic tube with a screw cap that contains 60ml of the product. It has very minimalistic packaging and design, with it's design elements (Sun and accents) coloured blue to differentiate it from the Daily Go-To Sunscreen, which is yellow and marketed towards dry skin types. My sunscreen came from niasha.ch, one of the three big online K-Beauty specialty retailers in Switzerland (The others are coree.ch and sooyou.ch) at 22.90CHF. Interestingly, the packaging on my sunscreen did not include the words "기능성 화장품", which denotes it as a functional cosmetic in Korea. This means the sunscreen I bought was probably manufactured for export only, which is an odd quirk. 🤷‍♀️ 🫙 Texture and Scent: This is a fragrance-free sunscreen, though when I deliberately smell on it it DOES have a hint of that typical sunscreen-y smell It has a thick, lotion-like consistency that makes it a bit more lightweight without being too runny. On my combination skin it initially applied very tacky and sticky. Unfortunately, even after twenty minutes it stayed tacky and sticky, particularly around my eyes, and it dried down to a very shiny, greasy and oily finish on my skin (See pictures). I've been using this sunscreen for more than two weeks every day using the two-finger method and have worn it to geological excursions and particularly sunny days, where it held up surprisingly well in terms of protection (I use a sunstick for reapplication). ✅️ Pros: • Good protection that held up to constant sun exposure before reapplication. • Not as runny as my previous sunscreen, which made it easier to apply to my face. • No white cast on the skin, so this is suitable for deeper skintones too.