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What do all of those numbers on the bottles mean anyway? And how do you pick the right one?
SPF is an acronym for Sun Protection Factor. Think of it as a rating that tells you how well your skin will be shielded from the sun using spray or lotion.
But what about the numbers?
SPF allows us to filter out harmful UVB rays (or sunburn rays). Research tells us that the SPF equation goes something like this: 15 SPF is equal to filtering 93% of the sun’s UVB rays. That isn’t enough to keep you from getting burned though. SPF 30 is about 97% protection.
Sunscreen can be applied in layers, like in your moisturizer or with your makeup, but you should always reapply. After too much time in the sun, the sunscreen will begin to be broken down by the sun’s rays. After any type of sweating, exposure to water or to the sun, you should always reapply.
At Beyond Complexion, we are obsessed with skincare and sunscreen is a surefire way to fight back against discoloration, skin cancers, wrinkles, and other signs of aging.
Here are some of our favorite non-traditional sunscreen products:
Loose Mineral Foundation Skincare Makeup: A 100% non-comedogenic foundation powder that feels like your own skin. All-natural minerals provide light-to-heavy coverage while also blocking the sun’s harmful rays.
Vitamin C+ Sheer Defense SPF 30 Sunscreen: Vitamin C + antioxidants + sunscreen = better skin and UVA/UVB protection. This lightweight sunscreen is loaded with potent antioxidants to fight free radicals, improve the appearance of aged, fragile skin, and discoloration.
Radiance Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46: Mattifying, oil-free tinted moisturizer with SPF 46 that adapts to your skin color to enhance skin tone with long-lasting hydration. The universal tint of Sheer Defense Tinted SPF 46 provides a smooth and even complexion, effectively masking imperfections, for beautifully radiant skin.
Daily Facial Moisturizer SPF 30: Lightweight moisturizer reduces redness and discoloration while improving the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Our lightweight yet super moisturizing mix of aloe vera, vitamin E, and botanical oils hydrates skin without clogging pores.
beyond complexion Summer Series: summer beauty must-haves.
Looking flawless shouldn't mean spending hours in front of the mirror putting on layers and layers of makeup. Especially when you want to be outside enjoying the sunshine!
It's time to speed up your skincare routine and get beautiful, flawless skin in one step with beyond complexion's Radiance Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46.
Look Flawless with beyond complexion
Our antioxidant-rich, oil-free, fast-absorbing SPF makeup reduces redness and evens skin tone. It also gives sheer medium coverage with universal tint and is water-resistant up to 80 minutes (perfect for summer activities!) Look flawless with just a swipe of this mattifying tinted moisturizer (with SPF 46!) that enhances skin tone with long-lasting hydration. Containing an innovative blend of ingredients, this moisturizer is ideal for all skin types including oily, sensitive and acne-prone skin.
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Packing for a trip can often be stressful, time-consuming and lead to you having 14 bags for a two-night getaway.
Make your life (and your packing) easier with beyond complexion. It's REALLY easy to keep your skin glowing even when you're out of town, or just stressed from running around town. Each of our products packs a potent (but gentle) punch, so you can easily look your best all summer long.
Easy Beauty with beyond complexion
Mandelic Acid 5+ Antioxidant Gel Cleanser
A cocktail for your skin: alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) is paired with hops, green tea to clean, clarify and rejuvenate skin all over the body. Hops brighten while the antioxidants in green tea soothe skin irritations. Mandelic acid minimizes the appearance of pores while also exfoliating and brightening skin. This potent combo leaves any spot on the body looking rejuvenated.
Daily Facial Moisturizer SPF 30
This lightweight yet super moisturizing mix of aloe vera, vitamin E, and botanical oils hydrates and protects skin without clogging pores. These natural products also improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, reduces redness, plus calms and soothes skin with acne or rosacea.
Radiance Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46
Look flawless with this mattifying, oil-free tinted moisturizer with SPF 46 that adapts to your skin color to enhance skin tone with long-lasting hydration. Containing an innovative blend of ingredients including Niacinamide, Vitamin E, Hyaluronic Acid, and the groundbreaking Knotweed Extract, this moisturizer helps smooth and restore skin, making it ideal for all skin types.
Because SPF is Really, Really Important
We hate to sound like a nagging mom, but did you pack your SPF? No, really, did you? While we all want a summer glow - sitting in the sun and burning your skin is NOT going to get you there. If you want healthy, glowing, wrinkle-free, blemish-free skin, then you HAVE to protect your skin with beyond complexion's SPFs.
Why beyond complexion?
Our lightweight SPFs not only protect your skin, but also help to restore it. Our SPFs are lightweight, non-clogging, and acne friendly. Which means, not only are they going to block those harmful UVA/UVB rays, they are also nourishing and rejuvenating your skin. Two for one!
beyond complexion SPF
Daily Facial Moisturizer SPF 30
This lightweight yet super moisturizing mix of aloe vera, vitamin E, and botanical oils hydrates and protects skin without clogging pores. These natural products also improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, reduces redness, plus calms and soothes skin with acne or rosacea.
Vitamin C+ Sheer Defense SPF 30
This lightweight sunscreen is loaded with potent antioxidants to fight free radicals, improve the appearance of aged, fragile skin, and discoloration. It creates a powerful shield to protect skin from UVA/UVB rays and renews skin’s moisture barrier, leaving your skin feeling silky-smooth. Ideal for all skin tones and types.
Radiance Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46
Look flawless with this mattifying, oil-free tinted moisturizer with SPF 46 that adapts to your skin color to enhance skin tone with long-lasting hydration. Containing an innovative blend of ingredients including Niacinamide, Vitamin E, Hyaluronic Acid, and the groundbreaking Knotweed Extract, this moisturizer helps smooth and restore skin, making it ideal for all skin types.
Vitamin C: The Secret Ingredient for Glowing Skin
We all want a summer glow, but not from sweat and goopy sunscreen that creates more of a drip situation than a glisten.
Get glowing from the inside out with the power of Vitamin C! This vitamin is the secret ingredient to beautiful skin any time of year, but especially during the summer - when cover-ups should only apply to swimsuits, not your face.
Why Vitamin C?
Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that fights off free radicals, penetrates the skin and regenerates cells. Our Vitamin C products leave skin looking refreshed with fewer fine lines, sun spots and scars. Wow!
Vitamin C-20+ High Potency Serum
This anti-aging antioxidant serum penetrates the skin with vitamins C & E, and hyaluronic and phytic acids- a combo that gets those skin cells moving! And by that we mean regenerating to create new, fresh cells, and leaving skin looking refreshed with fewer fine lines, sun spots and scars.
Vitamin C+ Sheer Defense SPF 30
This lightweight sunscreen is loaded with potent antioxidants to fight free radicals, improve the appearance of aged, fragile skin, and discoloration. It creates a powerful shield to protect skin from UVA/UVB rays and renew skin’s moisture barrier, leaving your skin feeling silky-smooth. Ideal for all skin tones and types.
Vitamin C with HQ Lightening Serum
This clinical strength brightening serum reduces the appearance of skin discoloration and hyperpigmentation - including melasma, sun spots, liver spots, brown spots, freckles, and chloasma. This mix of hydroquinone 4%, vitamins C & E, alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) and 11 botanical oils has been proven to reduce discoloration caused by sun exposure (sun spots) or hormones (melasma).
How to Deal with Discoloration
Summer is the time when you want to kick back, relax, put on some flip flops and just take it easy. It calls for breezy tunics, cute hats, your favorite sunnies and listening to some good music. What it doesn't call for...heavy goopy makeup to cover up your skin discoloration. beyond complexion has specialty products that will help with skin discoloration issues while also rejuvenating and protecting your skin.
Illuminate 2+
This powerful, over-the-counter strength skin lightening & anti-aging formula aggressively targets skin pigmentation associated with UV exposure and hormonal changes. The optimal delivery of 2% stabilized Hydroquinone (the only over-the-counter skin lightener approved by the FDA) is clinically proven to inhibit melanin production while improving and normalizing the cell renewal process.
Vitamin C-20+ High Potency Serum
This anti-aging antioxidant serum penetrates the skin with vitamins C & E, and hyaluronic and phytic acids- a combo that gets those skin cells moving! And by that, we mean regenerating to create new, fresh cells, and leaving skin looking refreshed with fewer fine lines, sun spots, and scars. This product has everything to bring back a youthful glow—vitamin C, l-ascorbic acid, hyaluronic acid, phytic acid, and vitamin E— packed into one convenient serum.
Radiance Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46
Look flawless with this mattifying, oil-free tinted moisturizer with SPF 46 that adapts to your skin color to enhance skin tone with long-lasting hydration. Containing an innovative blend of ingredients including Niacinamide, Vitamin E, Hyaluronic Acid, and the groundbreaking Knotweed Extract, this moisturizer helps smooth and restore skin, making it ideal for all skin types including oily, sensitive and acne-prone skin. The universal tint of Sheer Defense Tinted SPF 46 provides a smooth and even complexion, effectively masking imperfections, for beautifully radiant skin.
Makeup that Covers & Enhances Skin
Most of the time we put makeup on to cover up our skin imperfections so we can appear flawless. BUT what if you could cover your skin while also reducing skin irritation, getting rid of wrinkles, and hydrating and protecting your skin?
Our Radiance Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46 is the perfect makeup that provides sheer-medium coverage PLUS has ingredients to enhance your skin and protect you from UVA/UVB rays.
Get beautiful skin with our Radiance Tinted Moisturizer. A mattifying, oil-free tinted moisturizer with SPF 46 that adapts to your skin color to enhance skin tone with long-lasting hydration. Containing an innovative blend of ingredients including Niacinamide, Vitamin E, Hyaluronic Acid, and the groundbreaking Knotweed Extract, this moisturizer helps smooth and restore skin, making it ideal for all skin types including oily, sensitive and acne-prone skin.
We've Got the Products for Great Looking Skin ????
It's time to make antioxidants your BFF when it comes to skincare. Why? Because they help fight those pesky free radicals that damage your skin cells!
Antioxidants are the army that helps lead you to your goal of getting radiant, youthful, refreshed skin. Check out beyond complexion's AMAZING antioxidant-rich products and start improving the appearance of aged, fragile skin, and bring back your youthful glow!
beyond complexion Antioxidant Products
Start your routine with our antioxidant-rich Green Tea & Pomegranate Cleanser that rejuvenates, restores, balances and hydrates the skin for a healthier-looking complexion.
Then apply our Vitamin C20+ High Potency Serum that penetrates skin with vitamins C & E to help regenerate cells, leaving skin looking refreshed with fewer fine lines, sun spots, and scars.
Next, apply our Intensive Eye & Neck Complex under eyes, and to neck and décolletage. In addition to firming skin and smoothing fine lines, the anti-aging properties of the ingredients restore, tighten and firm delicate skin.
Last, but not least, smooth on our Vitamin C+ Sheer Defense, our lightweight sunscreen loaded with antioxidants. This SPF 30 also improves the appearance of aged, fragile skin, and creates a powerful shield to protect skin from UVA/UVB rays.
Take Cover! ???? May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Don't Let the Sun Get You Down
Bad News: According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, there are over 5 million skin cancer cases diagnosed in the U.S. each year, which means it's the most common cancer in the United States.
Really Good News: Skin cancer is one of the most preventable forms of cancer!!!
Even Better News: We've got AMAZING skincare products that not only rejuvenate your skin from the inside out, but also contain SPF to protect your skin from unwanted UVA/ UVB rays.
May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month: Take this time to stock up on some of your favorite SPFs so you're covered this summer.
beyond complexion SPFs
Radiance Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46
Look flawless with this mattifying, oil-free tinted moisturizer with SPF 46 that adapts to your skin color to enhance skin tone with long-lasting hydration. Containing an innovative blend of ingredients, this moisturizer helps smooth and restore skin, making it ideal for all skin types including oily, sensitive and acne-prone skin.
Vitamin C+ Sheer Defense SPF 30
This lightweight sunscreen is loaded with potent antioxidants to fight free radicals, improve the appearance of aged, fragile skin, and discoloration. It creates a powerful shield to protect skin from UVA/UVB rays and renew the skin’s moisture barrier, leaving your skin feeling silky-smooth.
Daily Facial Moisturizer SPF 30
This lightweight yet super moisturizing mix of aloe vera, vitamin E, and botanical oils hydrates skin without clogging pores. These natural products also reduce redness, calming and soothing skin with acne or rosacea. This protective moisturizer uses patented safflower oleosomes technology to provide long-lasting protection from UVA/UVB rays.
We've Got the Secret to Flawless Skin
Get the beautiful, glowing skin you've always dreamed of with our Radiance Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46. This mattifying, oil-free tinted moisturizer adapts to your skin color to enhance skin tone with long-lasting hydration.
Containing an innovative blend of ingredients, this moisturizer helps smooth and restore skin, making it ideal for all skin types including oily, sensitive and acne-prone skin.
Get to Know the Ingredients
12% Zinc Oxide: provides broad-spectrum coverage from UVA/UVB rays.
Vitamin E: provides powerful antioxidant protection against free radicals and sun damage.
Niacinamide: helps reduce redness and skin irritation.
Knotweed Extract: reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles caused by infra-aging.
Hyaluronic Acid: replenishes moisture within the skin, keeping it hydrated without an oily feel.