Hero Cosmetics Force Shield Superlight Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 30

I love other Hero products and wanted to give the sunscreen a try. Unfortunately, my entire face broke out in countless small zits from this product…and I do not have issues with acne normally.

it felt nice, as someone with combo skin it didnt feel too oily or greasy or dry. i couldnt really feel it at all, even wearing it all day at disneyland. the only downside is that it's not waterproof, which is a shame since it's my go to sunscreen but i can't wear it in the pool or at the beach.

I just want to start this off by saying I used this sunscreen last summer and had no issues. I decided to try it out again since its at a good price point. A couple days later I went from having 100% clear skin to painful bumps/acne going up my jawline and cheeks, literally all over. I have NEVER experienced this amount of acne in my life. It took me almost a week to figure out what had caused it because I had only worn it a couple times and I have used the product before. My skin has since cleared up it was horrible few weeks trying to clear my skin. Also I'm pretty pale and this does leave a white cast.

I purchased this sunscreen because I have sensitive skin prone to redness and I needed an SPF geared towards acne-prone skin. I tried it on my face yesterday and wow, it was truly awful. First of all, it is anything but sheer. I literally looked like a ghost - some of the worst mineral sunscreen I've tried in quite some time from that perspective. Any videos you see where it looks sheer is because the person is not applying nearly enough sunscreen to hit the marketed SPF 30 claim. But I figured I'd wear the sunscreen the rest of the day, even though I looked greasy and deathly white, to at least get some UV coverage. Boy was that a mistake. When I washed it off a few hours later my skin was in one of the worst flares I've ever had -- closed comedones, red rashes on my cheeks (an area that never flares for me), dermatitis flared up all around my mouth, and raised bumps all over my face. Truly, truly awful - especially from a product marketed to sensitive, acne-prone skin. I couldn't believe my eyes. I will be dealing with barrier issues for quite some time because of this product. Avoid it like the plague.

Tried this on a whim as I was looking for a face sunscreen that wouldn't break me out or smell/taste bad like the Aveeno face sunscreen did and it worked so well I'm on my third bottle now! The redness reducing effect is not very strong, so you will still need to use other products if that is your goal. It does leave a faint white cast upon initial application to my fair skin, but fades as it sinks in. My forehead is significantly oilier than the rest of my face, so I do still have to use a mattifiying moisturizer over the sunscreen there, but on the rest of my face it gives me a natural glow. No smell or taste I can detect and I've broken out less since I began using this daily versus the Aveeno face sunscreen. Added bonus that this size is travel-friendly and kept me burn-free on a recent summer trip to Arizona. So happy I found my perfect sunscreen!