Purlisse Youth Glow Vitamin C CC Cream SPF 50
Product summary
The ingredient list suggests that "Purlisse - Youth Glow Vitamin C CC Cream SPF 50" can provide reliable sun protection. It can protect from both UVA and UVB rays. This is great news because not all sunscreens with SPF ratings give UVA protection. (UVA rays do not cause sunburn, but still damage our skin and lead to early aging).
This product should also be hydrating enough to use without an additional moisturizer during the day. Like all broad-spectrum sunscreens, this product helps prevent early signs of aging.
Sunscreen filters
This is a so-called "chemical" sunscreen. It means that it uses organic UV filters. They typically offer good sun protection and rarely leave a white cast, but they can be irritating for some people with sensitive skin. The UV filters in this sunscreen are: avobenzone 2.00% (declared), octisalate 5.00% (declared), homosalate 12.00% (declared) and octocrylene 8.00% (declared).
Irritation risk
This formulation includes some common irritants, including ingredients that do not provide a benefit for the skin. We assess the overall irritancy of it to be medium. For a detailed overview of all potential irritants: click here
You can see the detailed formula review with the breakdown of all actives in the product and the full ingredient list with estimated concentrations in the tables below.
Price
The product retails for 39.00$ in the United States.
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Benefits
Promise: Sun protection
This product offers a good level of protection against both UVB and UVA rays.
This sunscreen uses organic (so-called "chemical") sunscreen filters. Organic, or "chemical" filters usually provide reliable sun protection and rarely leave a white cast. Sunscreens with organic filters can sting eyes.
This product can be considered "reef safe" because it does not contain the UV filters (oxybenzone and octinoxate) that can be harmful to coral reefs when present in the water in high concentrations.
| Ingredient | Effectiveness | Concentration | Irritancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane | HIGH |  |  |
| octocrylene | HIGH | | |
| homosalate | MEDIUM | | |
Promise: Anti-aging
What does the product description say?
Youth Glow Vitamin C CC Cream SPF 50
This product can help prevent early signs of skin aging because it offers a good level of broad spectrum sun protection. Sun damage is the main cause of premature skin aging, and protecting your skin from the sun is the best anti-aging strategy.
| Ingredient | Effectiveness | Concentration | Irritancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| camellia sinensis leaf extract | LOW | | |
Other benefit: Evens skin tone
This product offers broad spectrum sun protection. It means that it can prevent hyperpigmentation and help keep the skin tone even (sun damage is the main factor causing age spots, darkening of post-acne marks and other discolorations).
| Ingredient | Effectiveness | Concentration | Irritancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| camellia sinensis leaf extract | LOW | | |
| hydrolyzed soy protein | LOW | | |
| dipotassium glycyrrhizate | LOW |  | |
Other benefit: Moisturizing
What does the product description say?
It's enriched with active ingredients like Vitamin C, Hyaluronic Acid and Sea Buckthorn to leave your skin feeling and looking bright, youthful and hydrated.
This product can help improve hydration of the skin with the two types of ingredients.
The first type is called “humectants”:
these ingredients help attract water.
When humectants are on the surface of the skin, they “pull in” the moisture from the outside environment, or from
within deeper layers of the skin. The following ingredients in this product do the job:
aphanizomenon flos-aquae extract, glycerin.
This product also contains ingredients called “occlusives”. They help reduce the speed with which our skin loses moisture to the outside environment. These ingredients also help soften the upper layer of the skin, so it feels less tight and nicer to the touch. The following ingredients in this product do the job: dimethicone, cetearyl alcohol.
| Ingredient | Effectiveness | Concentration | Irritancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| sodium hyaluronate | HIGH | | |
| dimethicone | HIGH | | |
| glycerin | HIGH | | |
Other benefit: Anti-oxidation
This product contains antioxidants (aphanizomenon flos-aquae extract, camellia sinensis leaf extract) that might be able to help neutralize free radicals in skin to lessen the damage it gets from the UV light (sun). There is not enough evidence to confirm their effectiveness in skin though.
| Ingredient | Effectiveness | Concentration | Irritancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| aphanizomenon flos-aquae extract | MEDIUM | | |
| camellia sinensis leaf extract | MEDIUM | | |
| tocopheryl acetate | LOW | | |
Honesty check
How honest is this product?
| Promise | Can it deliver? |
|---|---|
| Sun protection | |
| Anti-aging |
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Potential irritants
| Ingredient | Irritancy | Skin Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| parfum | | |
| butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane | | |
| homosalate | | |
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Ingredients & concentrations
- aphanizomenon flos-aquae extract
- Avobenzone
- camellia sinensis leaf extract
- cyclopentasiloxane
- dimethicone
- dipotassium glycyrrhizate
- glycerin
- homosalate
- octocrylene
- sodium hyaluronate
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| Ingredient | Estimated concentration |
|---|---|
2%
Declared
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| Avobenzone. An organic, or so-called "chemical" UV filter. Protects against both UVA and UVB rays. Needs to be combined with other filters in a formulation to be stable. | |
12%
Declared
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| A weak sunscreen that offers some protection against the sun rays that cause sunburn (UVB), but does not offer meaningful protection against protect against the most aging sun rays (UVA). It loses its effectiveness quickly when exposed to sunlight. It is an organic, or so called "chemical" sunscreen. When used in low concentrations, helps to stabilize the product formulation | |
5%
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| Octisalate. A UV filter. It offers some protection against the sun rays that cause sunburn (UVB), but does not protect against the most aging sun rays (UVA). It loses its effectiveness quickly when exposed to sunlight. It is an organic, or so called "chemical" sunscreen | |
8%
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| A weak sunscreen that protects against the sun rays that cause sunburn (UVB) and is somewhat effective against the UVA rays. It is quite stable and can help stabilize other, more vulnerable, sunscreen ingredients like Avobenzone. It is an organic, or so called "chemical" sunscreen | |
| 45% - 55% | |
| Plain old water | |
| 5.2% - 6.4% | |
| One of the best moisturizing ingredients. Naturally present in skin. It attracts water to the upper layer of the skin working as a humectant | |
| 4.1% - 5% | |
| A non-drying alcohol. Works as an emollient. Helps water and oil mix together and creates a nice product texture | |
| 4.7% - 5.7% | |
| A silicone that helps to reduce water loss from the surface of the skin. Can temporarily "fill in" lines and wrinkles, absorb oil, and create a nice product finish | |
| 3.4% - 4.1% | |
| A silicone that helps improve the product texture and spreadability. Can absord oil creating a short-term mattifying effect on the skin | |
| 2.2% - 2.7% | |
| A more stable but less bio-available form of vitamin E compared to Tocopherol. Might help moisturize and protect the skin from free radicals, but mostly used in low concentrations to stabilize other ingredients. | |
| 1.7% - 2% | |
| 1.5% - 1.8% | |
| An extract from ablue-green algae. Can help attract water to the upper layer of the skin and might help to neutralize free radicals | |
| 1.2% - 1.5% | |
| Helps attract water to the upper layer of the skin. Might have some anti-aging, anti-oxidant, and skin lightening properties, but solid evidence is missing | |
| 1% - 1.3% | |
| Can contain potent anti-oxidant compounds (abbreviated ECG, GCG, EGC, and EGCG) that might help protect the skin from free radicals. Can help calm down inflammation and has some anti-bacterial properties. Unfortunately, these antioxidants are unstable and lose their effectiveness very quickly in products. The concentration of the antioxidant compounds in the extract also tends to be low to be effective in topical formulation | |
| 0.8% - 1.2% | |
| 0.7% - 1.05% | |
| One of the best moisturizing ingredients. Attracts water into the upper layer of the skin | |
| 0.6% - 0.9% | |
| A salt derived from licorice. Works as an emollient to soften the upper layer of the skin and can help calm down inflammation. Might be helpful for skin lightening | |
| 0.55% - 0.8% | |
| 0.55% - 0.85% | |
| 0.4% - 0.6% | |
| Used to adjust the pH in formulations | |
| 0.3% - 0.55% | |
| Helps create a thicker or gel-like product texture. It is not a surfactant but can be used in gentle cleansing formulations | |
| 0.25% - 0.5% | |
| Stabilizes the product formulation | |
| 0.16% - 0.32% | |
| A preservative | |
| 0.3% - 0.55% | |
| Helps preserve products and creates a nice product texture | |
| 0.2% - 0.4% | |
| A preservative. It helps prevent bacterial growth in cosmetic products | |
| 0.15% - 0.3% | |
| An aromatic blend of unspecified and possibly irritating ingredients | |
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Sources
- Opinion on Homosalate - Scientific Committee on Consumer Products
- Glycerol and the skin: holistic approach to its origin and functions
- Dimethicone as a protective ingredient in topical medications
- Final Report on the Safety Assessment of Dimethicone Copolyol
- Effects of the Aphanizomenon flos-aquae Extract (Klamin®) on a Neurodegeneration Cellular Model
- Extracts from Glycine max (soybean) induce elastin synthesis and inhibit elastase activity
- Dermatological and cosmeceutical benefits of Glycine max (soybean) and its active components
- Safety Assessment of Soy Peptides as Used in Cosmetics
- Hyaluronic acid: A key molecule in skin aging
- Hyaluronan (Hyaluronic Acid): a natural moisturizer for skin care
- Ameliorating effect of dipotassium glycyrrhizinate on an IL-4- and IL-13-induced atopic dermatitis-like skin-equivalent model