A surprisingly luxe grocery store sunscreen
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May 23, 2025

A luxe sunscreen that you can buy with your groceries

A photo of someone holding Trader Joe’s Daily Facial Sunscreen SPF 40 with an illustrated border.
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“You know that saying, you can have something cheap and good, or good and fast, or fast and cheap — but never all three? Given the fantastic price and performance of this sunscreen, I think you can,” says writer Rose Maura Lorre.

This Trader Joe’s sunscreen is shine-free, doesn’t leave a white cast, and looks and feels a lot like Supergoop’s ever-popular Unseen Sunscreen. You can use it as a combination sunscreen and primer — the last step of your skin care and the first step of your makeup, blurring pores without feeling sticky.

“It’s the only face sunscreen I’ve used that I regularly reapply throughout the day,” says Rose. And because it’s inexpensive, she buys several tubes at a time and stashes them everywhere for easy reapplication.

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