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Don't Come Home Lobster Red: Sunscreens for Beach, Cruise & Pool Days
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items As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. “We'll only be outside a minute,” said every lobster-red tourist on the drive home. This is the sunscreen I'd pack for pool days, beach trips and cruise ports: kid-proof bottles, mineral picks...
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Best Sunscreens for Kids, Beach Bags, and Family Pool Days
Mineral Sunscreens and More Natural-Leaning Picks
Face Sunscreens for Daily Summer Routines
Travel, Purse, and On-the-Go Sunscreen Finds
The Spots Everybody Forgets (Until Supper)
Best Sunscreens for Kids, Beach Bags, and Family Pool Days
Kids go through sunscreen like it's free. These are the bottles worth keeping in the pool bag, the beach tote, the camp backpack, and by the back door.
Made for face and body, so it's one bottle for the whole kid. Easy to keep handy when they're in and out of the pool all day long.
Fresh Monster Daily Kids Sunscreen, SPF 30
Unscented mineral sunscreen for kids with sensitive skin. Small enough to toss in the beach bag without taking over the whole pouch.
California Kids Super Sensitive Sunscreen, SPF 30+
Made with melanin-rich skin in mind, and it works on face and body. SPF 50 for the kids who stay in the water till their lips turn blue.
Black Girl Sunscreen Kids Lotion, SPF 50
The big pump bottle for families that go through sunscreen by the gallon. Park it by the back door and everybody gets a squirt on the way out. No excuses.
Rocky Mountain Kids Sunscreen Lotion, SPF 50
For the kid who won't stand still long enough for lotion. Spray, rub it in a little, and they're back in the pool before they can argue. Two cans, so one stays in the pool bag and one waits by the back door.
Neutrogena Beach Defense Kids Spray, SPF 70, 2-Pack
Mineral Sunscreens and More Natural-Leaning Picks
Zinc oxide, physical blockers, and formulas for folks who read ingredient labels like a mystery novel. Lotions, a spray, and one made with beef tallow. Yes, really.
Beef tallow, zinc oxide, unscented, face and body. I know. Sunscreen from the steakhouse. But if you're on the tallow train, this one's definitely not your usual bottle.
Beef Tallow Mineral Sunscreen, SPF 50
Non-nano zinc oxide, made for sensitive skin, and it works on face and body. One bottle that goes from the pool to the porch.
Non-Nano Zinc Mineral Sunscreen, SPF 30
For the folks who'd rather spray than rub. Zinc oxide, face and body, and easy to keep in the pool bag.
Zinc Oxide Mineral Sunscreen Spray, SPF 50
Mineral SPF 50 made for sensitive skin, with organic aloe and no fragrance. A name you'll recognize on the drugstore shelf, so it's an easy one to grab.Matte finish, made to wear under makeup. For those of us who'd like to glow, not glisten. And it c...
Blue Lizard Sensitive Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen Lotion
Face Sunscreens for Daily Summer Routines
Face sunscreen only works if you'll actually wear it. These feel more like skincare than beach goop, and a couple play nice under makeup.
Mineral face sunscreen with zinc oxide and 2% niacinamide. Feels more like skincare than beach sunscreen, so you'll actually put it on in the morning.
AXIS-Y No-Stress Mineral Face Sunscreen, SPF 50
Matte finish, made to wear under makeup. For those of us who'd like to glow, not glisten. And it comes in a travel size, too.
Black Girl Sunscreen Make It Matte Gel, SPF 45
Sunscreen in a brush-on powder. Face, scalp, and that shiny-forehead situation by 2 p.m. Handy for touch-ups when another layer of lotion just isn't happening.
Mineral Sunscreen Setting Powder, SPF 50
Tinted sunscreen that pulls double duty in a simple face routine. It's a two-pack, so keep one at home and one in your purse.
Tinted Face Sunscreen, SPF 50
The one everybody passes around in the group text. It goes on clear, with no white cast and no greasy shine, and it sits right under makeup. If you hate the feel of sunscreen on your face, start here.
Supergoop! Unseen Sunscreen, SPF 50
Travel, Purse, and On-the-Go Sunscreen Finds
The best sunscreen is the one you actually remembered to bring. Minis, sprays, and purse-size bottles for carry-ons, cruise bags, and party favors.
Thirty little sunscreens. Party favors, wedding welcome bags, camp bags, or one in every bag you own. Problem solved.
Mini Travel Sunscreens, SPF 50+, 30 Pack
A 6-pack of travel-size, water-resistant SPF 50 sprays. Stash one in the beach bag, the carry-on, the glove box, and the cruise tote, and you're covered. Literally.
Vacation Mini Classic Sunscreen Spray, SPF 50
SPF 30 in a glowy oil, in a 3.4 oz travel size. And it comes with a matching air freshener, because Vacation does things a little extra. I'm here for it.
Vacation Chardonnay Oil SPF 30, Travel Size
Fragrance-free mineral SPF 30 with zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, plus aloe, coconut, and vitamin E. A 4 oz bottle that still fits in the toiletry bag.
Kovr Organic Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30, Travel Size
The Spots Everybody Forgets (Until Supper)
The part in your hair, the tops of your ears, your lips. You won't think about them at the pool. You'll think about them at supper, when they're glowing. And the aloe's here for when it's already too late.
Lips burn just like everything else, and they peel worse. Three in a pack, so one lives in the beach bag, one in the car and one in your pocket. Swipe it on every time you reapply sunscreen and you'll never have to think about it.
Sun Bum SPF 30 Lip Balm, 3-Pack
A sunburned part in your hair is its own special kind of misery, and it flakes like dandruff for a week. This little spray mists right onto the scalp without making your hair greasy. Cruise days and boat days especially.
Sun Bum SPF 30 Scalp & Hair Mist
For when you did everything right and still came home looking like a boiled shrimp. Keep it in the fridge in the cabin or the beach house so it's cold when you need it. Nobody admits they need the aloe until they need the aloe.
Sun Bum Cool Down Aloe After Sun Gel
Sunscreen on your ears and the back of your neck only lasts so long. A wide brim covers both, and the ponytail hole means you don't have to choose between the hat and getting your hair off your neck. Hat hair beats a peeling neck any day.
FURTALK Wide Brim Sun Hat with Ponytail Hole