I wound up texting her about it an hour ago since I remembered we were almost out of sunscreen anyway lol.
She reaffirmed that the Biore UV aqua rich watery essence is still among the best for sensory issues. In my experience it's been incredible, I've struggled with basically lotions and creams and other skincare goos my whole life, sunscreen worst of all — I have zero problems with that one, it doesn't feel like anything, isn't greasy, doesn't have a white cast, doesn't sting if it gets in my eyes, and very importantly doesn't have much of a scent (iirc it has a faint, mild smell that doesn't smell anything like american sunscreen and goes away relatively quickly). The drawback is that it can be a little pricey, so it's better kept as a face-only sunscreen.
Otherwise, she sent me this sunscreen thread from the subreddit for asian skincare products and assured me that I could let my eyes glaze over at the ingredients if I wanted and just read the bullet points for the descriptions of how they feel and smell. From the thread it sounds like Kose Suncut, Nivea Sun, and Canmake Mermaid are good. I think pilling is mostly something that happens when you use multiple kinds of skincare products together, but I'm not 100% sure (i don't use anything other than sunscreen and it's never happened to me)
I wound up texting her about it an hour ago since I remembered we were almost out of sunscreen anyway lol.
She reaffirmed that the Biore UV aqua rich watery essence is still among the best for sensory issues. In my experience it's been incredible, I've struggled with basically lotions and creams and other skincare goos my whole life, sunscreen worst of all — I have zero problems with that one, it doesn't feel like anything, isn't greasy, doesn't have a white cast, doesn't sting if it gets in my eyes, and very importantly doesn't have much of a scent (iirc it has a faint, mild smell that doesn't smell anything like american sunscreen and goes away relatively quickly). The drawback is that it can be a little pricey, so it's better kept as a face-only sunscreen.
Otherwise, she sent me this sunscreen thread from the subreddit for asian skincare products and assured me that I could let my eyes glaze over at the ingredients if I wanted and just read the bullet points for the descriptions of how they feel and smell. From the thread it sounds like Kose Suncut, Nivea Sun, and Canmake Mermaid are good. I think pilling is mostly something that happens when you use multiple kinds of skincare products together, but I'm not 100% sure (i don't use anything other than sunscreen and it's never happened to me)
thank you both so much!!! this is honestly going to help me a lot
totally, very much understand the struggle and happy to help! hope you find one you like, good luck!