If you haven’t already been applying it daily, as doctors recommend, now is the time to make putting on facial sunscreen as much a part of your morning routine as brushing your teeth.
Being a citizen of southern California, we have followed medical advice and literally put on sunscreen nearly every day of the year – except when it’s pouring rain, which is usually confined to the winter season anyway.
There are two main problems that have arisen in the course of this regimen. The first is a product leaving a white residue on the skin, which, unless you’re a porcelain doll, is simply not attractive. The other and more common problem is even that products that are billed as oil free seem to either leave or encourage a greasy residue on the face, particularly on the nose and forehead.
This is glaringly apparent in photographs, and again is not a good look.
So we were absolutely thrilled after we checked out a new product that not only provides broad spectrum SPF40 broad-spectrum UVA and UVB protection, but leaves our skin with a beautiful sheer matte finish – for hours and hours.
Developed by board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Harry Fallick, CōTZ Face features a proprietary mineral complex, a silky-smooth blend of up to eight different sizes of mineral particles and natural sunscreens that sits invisibly on the skin to protect it from sun damage, while preventing the heat build-up that can cause irreversible damage to the skin. The company says this complex acts as thousands of little – yet powerful – mirrors to deflect UVA and UVB rays before they can touch or penetrate the skin.
The product is free of oil, chemical sunscreen ingredients, preservatives, fragrances, parabens, PABA, gluten, and phthalates.
CōTZ Face is also different in that it is natural skin toned, but seems to blend right in and look completely translucent, meaning that a wide range of skin tone should be able to wear this product. (There is also a product called CōTZ Face for Lighter & Fair Skin Tones available.)
On us, it also acted as a primer for when we wanted to put on a foundation or tinted moisturizer on top of it. But for daytime casual wear, we didn’t even need tinted moisturizer– a product we usually wear in the summer instead of foundation.
Full disclosure: we applied a bit of loose mineral powder over CōTZ Face and were good to go.
There are also other CōTZ sunscreen products that we can’t wait to try, but meanwhile, Face is our new summer staple.
CōTZ Face, 1.5 ounce tube, about $17 at major retailers
