Black Girl Sunscreen

Black Girl Sunscreen was founded in 2016 by Shontay Lundy with $33,000 in personal savings to address the lack of sunscreens formulated for melanin-rich skin. The brand has since expanded to over 12,000 retail locations including Target, Walmart, and Ulta, and has become the first Black-owned sunscreen brand in major US retailers.

4 products reviewed

76/100 Score

Black Girl Sunscreen Kids SPF 50 in a colorful squeeze tube

No-White-Cast Kids Essential

Black Girl Sunscreen sunscreen

Kids SPF 50

A no-white-cast kids' sunscreen that finally gives melanin-rich families a sun protection option designed for them, not adapted from someone else's formula. The broad-spectrum SPF 50 delivers solid protection with moisturizing botanicals at a genuinely accessible price. It is not reinventing UV chemistry, but it is solving a real problem that the sunscreen industry ignored for decades.

normaldry Fragrance Free

Melanin-Friendly Pioneer

Black Girl Sunscreen sunscreen

SPF 30 Broad Spectrum Sunscreen

A genuinely useful sunscreen that solved a real problem — disappearing completely on melanin-rich skin while delivering competent SPF 30 protection. The moisturizing botanical oil base is a bonus for dry skin but a drawback for oily types. Not the most sophisticated formula on the market, but it earns its spot by being the sunscreen that finally got a lot of people to wear sunscreen at all.

normaldry Fragrance Free

Shine-Control Sun Shield

Black Girl Sunscreen sunscreen

Make It Matte SPF 45

A solid no-white-cast face sunscreen with competent broad-spectrum protection, but the matte promise does not fully deliver for everyone. The gel texture and chemical filter combo work beautifully on melanin-rich skin, though the finish lands closer to satin than truly matte. A good option for oily skin types, with the caveat that you may still need blotting papers by afternoon.

oilycombination Fragrance Free

Melanin-Rich Skin Sun Essential

Black Girl Sunscreen sunscreen

SPF 30 Broad Spectrum

The sunscreen that proved the industry had been ignoring an enormous market. A moisturizing, cast-free SPF 30 with an oil-rich formula specifically designed for melanin-rich skin. It is not for oily skin, but for dry to normal darker complexions that have spent years fighting white cast and ashy finish, this $16 tube is exactly the product that should have existed decades ago.

drynormal Fragrance Free

★★★★★

4.5 (3,500)

$15.99