Discover Avène's Protective Sunscreen For Sensitive Skin

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Renowned for its soothing properties, Avène’s sunscreen range harnesses the restorative power of thermal spring water to alleviate and calm a range of skin concerns while keeping your skin safe in the sun.  Available in a variety of formulations, Avène creates face sunscreen for sensitive skin, sunscreen for children, and sunscreen for hypersensitive skin, ensuring that delicate skin stays free from irritation and sun damage. Chatting with Melanie, Avène's Medical Expert, we discovered more about Avène's Thermal Spring Water-enriched sunscreen. 

Gentle, lightweight, and highly protective, Avène create some of the best protective sunscreen on the market, infusing them with additional ingredients that rejuvenate ageing skin, soothe redness, balance oily or dry skin, and calm sensitive and reactive skin, keeping your complexion clear, nourished and youthful as you frolic in the sun.  

The Benefits Of Thermal Spring Water-Infused Sunscreen

A beneficial ingredient in sunscreen, particularly if your skin is sensitive or dry, thermal spring water nourishes your skin from within, the mineral-rich formula healing and soothing your skin to keep it free from dryness and irritation.

Brimming with calcium, magnesium, and silica, this natural thermal spring water replenishes lost nutrients in your skin, whilst hydrating, soothing, and calming as it protects, counteracting the damage caused by the sun, keeping your skin radiant and glowing without irritation or redness.

Gentle enough for even the most sensitive skin, Avène’s thermal water-enriched sunscreen range is perfect for children or skin prone to eczema and rosacea, their lightweight and effective formulas calming redness, while shielding sensitive skin from further sun-induced irritation.

Melanie shares: "Up to 80% of skin damage is done on a day today basis. If we all get in the habit of applying [sunscreen] every day, we no longer think about it. An easy tip when applying is to use two full finger lengths of SPF on our first and second finger then allow it to dry down. I love Avène Very High Protection Tinted SPF50+ Cream as I have dry skin. It is a broad spectrum and protects against UVB and UVA but also high energy Blue Light. Our sun filter, TriAsorbTM is the only organic sun filter to protect into the visible light spectrum, which is amazing for everyone, but especially those worried about pigmentation, as this tinted sunscreen is formulated with iron oxides that protects against pigmentation."

Avène Very High Protection Range

Providing maximum protection against the sun, the formulas in this range offer SPF50+, UVA, UVB, and blue light protection, making it perfect for people who want maximum sun protection when they’re pursuing outdoor activities or spending longer periods outside in the sun.

Formulated to soothe a variety of skin conditions while shielding against the sun, this range is suitable for normal and combination skin, children, sensitive, and oil-prone complexions, providing maximum sun protection while nurturing your skin.

Melanie explains: "Avène’s Intense Protect 50+ is the first SPF that we launched with our own proprietary sun filter TriAsorbTM. It took 20 years with expert scientists working tirelessly to develop this innovative new sun filter and it's the first organic sun filter on the market with a unique hybrid ability to absorb and reflect the suns rays. This sunscreen protects against UVB rays, UVA short and long rays, and also high energy visible (HEV) blue light up to 350 nm. More research is emerging about the importance of protecting against HEV blue light along with UVA and UVB rays. We know it can increase the damaging effects of UVA alone by 1.5 times and we also know that HEV blue light from the sun is much more powerful than from our devices. Avène’s Intense Protect 50+ features an ultra-light texture and invisible finish that absorbs into your skin in three seconds without white streaks. It's suitable for use on your entire family's face and body, including babies from six months and offers eight hours of protection. It's also ultra sweat, and water resistance as well as fragrance free so suitable for the most sensitive of skin.

Avène sunscreen spray on the beach

Five Of Our Favourites From The Avéne Sunscreen Range

Excited to discover more about Avène’s thermal spring water-enriched sunscreen? We’ve rounded up five of our favourite skin-soothing SPFs, sharing their features, benefits, and the reasons why we love them. Scroll down to find out more.

Avène Intense Protect 50+ Sun Cream for Very Sensitive Skin

Tested in the most extreme conditions, this Avène Intense Protect 50+ Sun Cream for Very Sensitive Skin provides maximum protection even at high altitude, high humidity, and in tropical weather conditions, the innovative TRIASORB™-enriched formula absorbing and reflecting UVA and visible blue light to keep your skin safe in the sun.

Ultra-lightweight, water and sweat-resistant this tough sunscreen keeps your skin safe in the sun while hydrating and nourishing for up to eight hours, ensuring that your skin stays perfectly balanced, no matter what you’re doing.

Avène Very High Protection Tinted Sun Cream SPF50+ for Dry Sensitive Skin

Formulated specifically for dry and sensitive skin, this Avène Very High Protection Tinted Sun Cream SPF50+ for Dry Sensitive Skin nourishes as it protects, the tinted formula unifying your skin tone to leave it balanced, bright, and even.

Perfect for wearing as a base under makeup, or in its own for a naturally flawless finish, this tinted sunscreen provides very high protection against UVA, UVB, blue light, and HEV, the water-resistant formula hydrating your skin for up to eight hours.

Avène Imtense Protect sunscreen on the beach

Avène Very High Protection Spray SPF50+ Sun Cream for Sensitive Skin

Quick, easy, and convenient, this Avène Very High Protection Spray SPF50+ Sun Cream for Sensitive Skin is perfect for on-the-go SPF top-ups, the high protecting formula drying invisibly, without stickiness to keep sensitive skin safe in the sun.

Shielding against UVA and UVB rays, this vegan-friendly sunscreen comforts sensitive skin instantly, the hydrating, vitamin E-infused formula nourishing dry skin for up to six hours while providing antioxidant protection against free radicals.

Avène Very High Protection Sun Cream SPF50+ for Dry Sensitive Skin

Soothing sensitive skin, this Avène Very High Protection Sun Cream SPF50+ for Dry Sensitive Skin is lightweight, high-protecting, and long-lasting, drying invisibly, without stickiness to leave your skin nourished and radiant.

Sweat, water, and sand-resistant, this thermal spring water-enriched sunscreen ensures dry skin stays smooth, soft, and protected, the nourishing formula keeping your skin hydrated for up to eight hours while defending against UVA, UVB, blue light, and HEV.

Avène Very High Protection Cleanance SPF50+ Sun Cream for Blemish-prone skin

Keeping blemishes at bay, this Avène Very High Protection Cleanance SPF50+ Sun Cream for Blemish-prone skin is specifically formulated with acne-prone skin in mind, the lightweight, non-greasy, and non-sticky formula dryig invisbly to keep your skin radiant and calm.

Shielding against UVA and UVB rays, as well as blue light and HEV, this nourishing sunscreen keeps your skin hydrated for up to eight hours, the Pre-tocopheryl and thermal spring water-infused formula soothing irritation to leave your skin calm and comfortable.

Shop Avène's Sunscreen Range

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