Looking for the best sun creams for a lazy summer 2022? Icon-Icon introduces its selection.
SUN CREAM SPECIAL: The Best Creams For A Quiet Summer
It’s the season for lounging around and spending long days on the white sand. From the beaches of Ibiza to those of Saint-Tropez, Capri or Mikonos – the summer of 2022, after so many restrictions due to the pandemic, will certainly have a taste of dolce vita.
But exposing your skin to tanning requires effective protection, and in this respect, companies and dermatologists have long been working to develop effective and delightful protections. For face, body and hair.
It is true that the houses of Guerlain and Dior can be counted on to give you a sun-kissed complexion all year round. With the legendary Terracotta Blooming Bee, Guerlain has been enhancing complexions for decades with a natural and elegant bronze veil. A Guerlain terracotta is sold every 20 seconds – and the new formula, its 96% natural origin, is even more sun-kissed. As soft and sensual as ever, Guerlain Terracotta still distills its aromas of white musk, carried away by notes of ylang-ylang and orange blossom… warmed by tonka bean and vanilla! A fragrance recognisable from all others.
Dior’s Bronze self-tanning gel has the same purpose – to give the complexion a natural veil of Dior refinement. The house notes: “Thanks to its dual perfecting and self-tanning action, the skin glows with a luminous complexion that becomes more intense every day. Its ultra-fresh and delicately pearly translucent texture melts immediately into the skin, moisturizing and sublimating it to reveal a gradually radiant complexion.”
An ideal cream to magnify the skin so… But now that the sun’s rays are shining on our skin, it’s time to pick from the best sun creams of 2022!
Dior has also developed Dior Bronze sun cream – a protective cream that gives you a beautiful tan. Especially for the face!
The house of Chanel offers a total cream that provides a new complete protection. Called UV Essentiel, the cream signed by the double C offers to protect the skin’s health capital from the sun, blue light, but also from pollution. The house explains: “Protection against UV rays (UVA – short and long – , UVB, indoor light) UV Essentiel SPF 50 combines two powerful natural ingredients: Life Plant PFA extract and Desert Yeast extract to intensify the skin’s protective power against pollution, oxidative stress and maintain its hydration.”
By combining 3 powerful ingredients for a global and total protection, Chanel inaugurates a new era in sun protection – chic and radical, just like Coco Chanel’s couture!
Givenchy celebrates the founder’s favourite black colour by giving its sun cream a very couture name. The Soin Noir Protection UV Fluide SPF 50+ carries with it this quest to elegantly protect the skin from the sun, around an illuminating formula that forms a shield around the epidermis.
Another name that has become a household name in the world of sun protection – the brand Fenty, founded by Rihanna. With the Hydra Vizorcream, Fenty offers a cream that combines intense hydration – thanks to its concentration of niacinamide – with sun protection. This velvety cream in a pink shade goes well with make-up and softens the skin! This cream is all the more interesting as it is in line with Fenty’s DNA: it adapts to all skin tones.
La Biosthetique offers the Sun Range – effective protection before, during and after a moment in the sun. And to make sure you don’t forget anything, La Biosthetique protects your body, face and hair all at once! Eight products for the skin and four for the hair make the La Biosthetique Sun Range one of the best for the season.
And the company behind the “Culture of Total Beauty” describes it this way: “Highly effective UV protection, a variety of pleasant textures and a summery fragrance make Soleil the ideal skin and hair care range for enjoying the sun at leisure. The Soleil range turns the need for sun protection into a real pleasure. Thanks to the ease of application of its protective sprays, lotions and creams, their pleasant, nourishing texture and their sensual, summery fragrance, there is no need to choose between pleasure and reason.”
A range that consists of active ingredients with low environmental impact. In other words, active ingredients that are very well tolerated by nature; perfect for protecting the environment!
Clarins also offers one of the most widely used sun creams… Dry Touch Face Sun Cream UVA/UVB 50+ – an essential cream enriched with Aloe Vera that “helps prevent the visible signs of photo-ageing and dehydration” as Clarins puts it. This sun protection is also orchestrated with the aim of respecting the environment, and in particular the corals!
In the same spirit of protecting people without destroying the nature that surrounds and intoxicates them – Thomsen’s Solar cream has been specially formulated to respect the seabed and protect the corals. The mineral sunscreen fps 30 is thus an organic formulation that leaves a satin-like effect on the skin, ensuring an even and long-lasting tan! “Our products will never make you choose between health and efficiency,” say sisters Emelie and Michaëla Thomsen, behind the eponymous company.
Shiseido offers a range of sun protection products to match the active and idle pace of summer life. An Expert Sun range recognisable by its blue-orange hue loaded with innovative active ingredients. The house details, “HeatForce™ and WetForce™ technologies strengthen the protective veil when it comes into contact with heat and water.”
Sisley puts its savoir-faire at the service of a protective and anti-ageing suncare range. A highly effective line that meets the needs of exposed skin!
Obviously, this selection of the best sun creams could not be concluded without mentioning the names of the companies behind the pharmaceutical creams… Names that have been specialising in chic and effective creams for decades – Avène, Photoderm, Eucerin Sun, Caudalie, Institut Esthederm, Biotherm or even the subtly scented creams from Nuxe!
