Expensive mineral-based sunscreens may not protect your skin from the sun's rays, worrying new research has found.
The consumer champion Which? tested five pricey suncreams against cheaper products and found that none of the expensive formulas lived up to claims on the bottle. Which? is advising sunseekers not to buy any of the mineral products they tested after all five failed SPF or UVA tests - and several products failed on both counts.
Four SPF 30 mineral-based sunscreens costing between £11.99 and £28 didn’t come close to providing the protection they claim to. They failed key sun protection tests twice, using two different samples. A fifth product, which uses mineral and chemical UV filters, failed to protect adequately from UVA.
