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Dr Michelle Wong - Lab Muffin Beauty Science
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Seeing a lot of people recommending sunscreen mists... unfortunately they're really not that effective for applying to your face, sorry! See the cloud lingering in the air? That's sunscreen NOT going on your skin - my experiments estimated that 80-95% of the sunscreen doesn't land.

Dr Michelle Wong - Lab Muffin Beauty Science
@labmuffin.com

At a certain size, the particles just stop in midair (physics!). The lighter the spray, the more drifts off. And what coverage you get is spotty. Is it better than nothing? Well, a rice grain of sunscreen is technically "better than nothing", but I'm not going to recommend it.

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Dr Michelle Wong - Lab Muffin Beauty Science
@labmuffin.com

Even more useless than sprays, sadly. I haven't done a test on them but I analysed Colorescience's data a while back labmuffin.com/do-they-work...

labmuffin.comDo They Work? Colorescience SPF Powder, Skinnies “Pea-Sized Amount” | Lab Muffin Beauty Scienceve had a lot of questions about certain sunscreen products with unusual claims, and what I think of them. I'll be talking about what I personally think of the claims for 2 products in this post…