Sun-Lite Moisturizing Organic Sunscreen by Emerald Essentials

This stuff is as amazing as the EWG site has named it. I'm not sure why they aren't more widely distributed. My main two selling points? Its organic and you can lay it on quite thick without looking white, which is unusual for most sunscreens. My use case is pairing it with my moisturizer. I'm not a fan of the combined moisturizer and sunscreen, because you can't control where you put what. People tend to moisturize heavier on certain parts of their face (dry spots) vs. area where shine builds up (nose, etc). This is great for moisturizer but horrible for proper sunscreen application. So I separate the two products. I use my moisturizer early in the morning, or a heavy one the night before, then I put this on right before my makeup in the morning, when I'm walking out the door.Only downside, its quite expensive, for the size of the bottle. I'm not sure i could afford to put this on, total body, for a day at the beach. Its $20, and i'd use the whole body on just me, for one day out in the sun.

This is one of my favorite sunscreens due to its pure and minimal ingredients that effectively screen UVA and UVB light. However, I will not be repurchasing due to its tiny size. It used to be twice as big so I was extremely surprised to get a skinny bottle no bigger than my hand. I'll only be able to get three to four body applications out of it and I am on the smaller side.

I agree with others that this is a great sunscreen, given its inoffensive ingredients. I chose it relative to other EWG top-ranked sunscreens because it was also a moisturizer, and I'm glad that I did. It absorbs nicely and doesn't dry out my skin. I do notice that right after I put it on, there is a slight white tint to my skin, but this disappears by the time I'm out the door in the morning. The sun hasn't been too strong yet this spring, so I haven't tested whether it actually blocks the sun, but others seem to vouch for it so I'm not too worried. I wish, a bit, that it had a higher SPF, but all in all I am so happy to have found this!As a side note, when I first received the product I was worried that it was counterfeit because the label was put on crooked, but it matches other official images online. In case others were concerned...

BEWARE, the picture of this product is very deceiving. It is a very small bottle. While this is very good sunscreen it is very hard to rub in.

I have purchase 3 bottles of this product and the sunscreen was different every bottle. The first made my skin a little white but okay. So I liked it and bought 2 bottles the next time...one bottle made my skin very white and the other one didn't make my skin white at all. I had to wonder if the one that didn't make my skin white at all was working as an effective sunscreen? The inconsistency was concerning but I keep trying it because it is one of the highest rated by Environmental Working Group, it is perfect for my dry skin and it smells good - not like sunscreen.

Product came in an old, worn looking bottle with no expiration date, so I returned it the same day.

I got this name from reading reviews on here and recommendations. 1) I am fragrance sensitive and usually I need unscented products. This has a very light delightful fragrance of something tropical.2) All the healthy sunscreens have zinc oxide and leave a whitish covering, but this is very minimally white.3) This has moisturizers that make my skin softer by using this. And the zinc oxide doesn't get caught in lines, pores or dry patches.I am very happy with the texture of this product and the way it improves my skin and hopefully protects me from sun damage in a healthier way, I hope. This is EWG's review of it http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/product/566120/Releve_Organic_Skincare_Sun-Lite_Sunscreen,_SPF_20/

I love that the ingredients are so much better than most sunscreens, and it doesn't have an annoying sunscreen odor--it smells mild, like oatmeal and coconut. My main problem with this sunscreen is that it definitely leaves a white cast on my skin. It makes me look like a ghost! I'm already very pale as it is, and this sunscreen definitely amplifies it. I end up with white deposits of residue on my face that slip into my eyebrows and latch onto every imperfection on my skin. It's a shame, because the ingredients are wonderful and I wanted to make this my go-to sunscreen. I'd wear it to the beach, or out exercising when I'm okay with looking messy, but I wouldn't even wear it to the pharmacy or the grocery store. Unfortunately, the white residue is too noticeable to wear under makeup, too.