After a day in the sun, your skin deserves a moment of care 💛
Whether you’ve been lounging by the pool or chasing rays, your skin’s been working overtime — now it’s your turn to return the favour.
The right after-sun can cool, calm, and nourish — but it’s worth avoiding products loaded with harsh ingredients that have no place on sun-stressed skin.
As always, we’ve done the legwork for you. With options for every skin type and budget, here are Yuka’s top 10 after-sun picks ☀️
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After Sun Sensitive Lotion - Cien Sun
Excellent - 100/100
This after-sun lotion blends shea butter, aloe vera, and glycerin to moisturize, soothe, and restore skin after sun exposure. |
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After Sun Restorative Lotion - Avène
Excellent - 100/100
With pro-vitamin E, this formula is thick and has antioxidants to soothe and replenish sensitive or sunburned skin. |
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Hydrating After Sun Oil - Hawaiian Tropic
Excellent - 100/100
This after-sun oil combines sunflower, avocado, and jojoba oils with vitamin E and bisabolol to nourish, repair, and calm sun-exposed skin. |
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Photoderm After Sun Gel-Cream - Bioderma
Excellent - 100/100
This non-greasy gel formula rehydrates, soothes, and softens the skin with glycerin, while helping to repair your skin barrier. |
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Sun Secure Moisturizer - SVR Laboratoire Dermatolo
Excellent - 100/100
A blend of coconut oil, aloe vera, niacinamide, and plant extracts, this lotion hydrates, soothes, and supports skin recovery after sun exposure. |
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Sensitive After Sun Gel - E45
Excellent - 93/100
This fragrance-free after-sun gel is enriched with vitamin B5 to hydrate, calm, and support moisture retention in dry, sensitive, and eczema-prone skin. |
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Anthelios After Sun Lotion - La Roche Posay
Excellent - 86/100
With added peppermint extract for a refreshing effect, this formula hydrates, soothes, and supports the skin’s barrier after sun exposure. |
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Lotion & After Sun - Green People
Excellent - 86/100
This after-sun lotion combines sunflower, olive, and calendula oils with aloe vera and myrrh to gently nourish, soothe, and restore sun-exposed skin. |
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After Sun Lotion - Childs Farm
Excellent - 79/100
With aloe vera leaf juice powder and glycerin to moisturize and soothe sun-exposed skin, this formula is lightweight offering a smooth, non-greasy finish. |
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After Sun Repairing Lotion - Caudalie
Good - 72/100
This milky after-sun lotion blends aloe vera, organic grape water, and coconut oil to soothe, nourish, and hydrate while helping to promote skin repair. |
Like all our rankings, this one was conducted completely independently, and no brand has paid to be included.
Many thanks Julie
Never seen any of them on a shelf in a supermarket.
Very informative and helpful. Thanks you.
V.helpful thankyou Julie.
Thank you yuka
This is very useful information
How are nano particles listed in any sun product or skin care ? Thank Nicky
Great info – love the app please could you do it for sun lotion have recommended to lots of friends
Thank you so much for your help in advising me about after sun products as I was thinking about holidays, and what is best for me.
How many of the top 10 are french?
Great to see that Greenpeople have made it in the top ten this time. Great products !
Thank you for this after sun information,
Which is very helpful.
Thanks for this info Yuka ..Could you do the same report For sun cream??,as I have lupus,,and I am having difficulty Finding a 50+ ..
Very helpful to know which after sun I could buy for sensitive skin. I downloaded the Yuka App a while ago and find it very useful when out shopping.
Thank you Yuka.
Thank you Yuka. I never shop without consulting your app. Anything new or I’m unsure of I use the app and that’s what I decide with what to buy. Thank you.
Aside from any suntan lotion from Boots (which are horrendous) , it would have been interesting to see the top 10 worse lotions as well !
How fantastic that a Lidl cream is coming out on top..off to stock up! Thanks.
Love, love. Love this app.
Great info as always! Love the Yuka app and have recommended it to family and friends (who are also now using it) 😉
Disappointed not to see Ringana Sunscreen.They are fresh, 100% natural and ecosystem friendly, not damaging our sea ecosystem for a change.
Disappointing not to see Tropic on the top 10 list as it normally rates as excellent!
Thanks great help
Love this app, it’s very helpful have got most of family using it too
This information is very helpful thank you
Brilliant app. Thank you very much for creating it! I don’t shop without it anymore for the past 3 years . It’s horrendous what’s out there and some people so ignorant and don’t want to know or be informed. Thank you again.
Thank you for that, it’s useful. It would be good to be clear about environmental impacts, though – this list doesn’t address that and I don’t find it easy to see on the app either at first glance. Since almost all this stuff is going to end up down the drain, that seems an important issue.
Using Yuka app is the best! Thanks Julie to you and all the team for keeping us up to date and fully informed 🙂
I love Yuka as they are not affiliated to certain brands and make recommendations for affordable products! Thank you
Thank goodness the best is not so expensive. Well done Lidl
Nice to know which brand is best
Thank You
So helpful. Good to know the healthiest products to use.
This app has changed the way I buy – thank you for taking the guesswork out of trying to find the best products
This info is brilliant, I will certainly act upon it , thank you
Thanks for sharing this with me
Thank you, great advice.
Thank you for this information; it is greatly appreciated. I was shocked to see that Lidle brand is at the top. I wouldn’t have bought it, but now I will.
Linda
Me too
Thank u for your information its greatly appreciated ☺ please to see Lidle is at the top of the list ..
i am allways searching for sun protection 50 but i find through your app most of them don’t reach the basick standard of protection …so i try to be on the shade ….
Keep the good work greatly appreciated 🙏.
Thank you.
I love the app.
I am saddened by how many people are unaware of what’s in the stuff we slap on and the stuff we ingest.
I am constantly referring people to your app and the information it holds.
Thank you for the review on the aftersun products. That is very helpful to know. Has there been or will there be a similar review on suntan lotions especially the more intense and prolonged sunshine we are getting and with a lot of holiday destinations getting into the forty plus degrees
Thank you
Thanks Yuka, I’m pleasantly surprised by some products on the list. Although it would be helpful to include which products leave a white cast, as this is a crucial factor for most people when getting sun cream.
Thank you for your info on after sun lotions, very useful information.
Thank you Julia and your team for all the excellent information you provide for us and the safe alternatives. I have made many adjustments and recommend your app to all my family & friends. There is one area where I am struggling and wondered if you could help and that is I cannot find a factor 50 Sun protection cream, even my dermatologist says “ any good factor 50 cream/ lotion will be ok” Have you done any research on sun protection? Thank you from Pauline.
Thank you very much for being so helpful, your are doing amazing job by helping people looking after their health.
Very helpful, thank you.
Thank you so much for all your hard work!
You are amazing!
Love Yuka! So great to get some suggestions of products with no nasties. I used your lip balm suggestions to find a replacement for the blistex I had been using for years but swopped to one on your list when I found it in a local store, and it cost a fraction of my usual for a pack of 4! I will definitely be using your Aftersun suggestions for my next purchase.
I Keep these ideas in an email folder to refer to when needed, so keep them coming please, great work and very much appreciated!
Maybe a face cream next? I found Garnier do a couple of options, but I’m still trying to source one that gives me the moisture that my mature post menopausal skin needs, such a confusing market these days!
Keep up the good work!😊
I’ve started using Byoma face creams as recommended by the app for my really dry skin and they’ve been great. You have to get the blue packaged ones though and not the orange ones as they rate poor.
try Weleda Skin Food – its a thick cream but it works so well on the face and leaves a lovely glow
Very surprised by the Hawaiian Tropic product, as every other product from them that you have rated is Bad or Poor.
Very good
Thanks for that and goes to show once again that the most expensive product is not always the best product to use
Which SPF 50 is good for pigmented on face please
I’m disappointed that you didnt include Tropic’s Sun Sooth in your top 10. You scored it 79 and excellent but included a 72 and good. Could you tell me why please?
Thank you.
Thanks for the advice
I disagree with the previous comment from Phillip. You will always get someone who is negative, when all you are doing is trying to help us. I think that it is extremely helpful when you inform us, as not everyone has the time to check their app, especially if they have young children distracting them or there is such poor Internet reception in the supermarket. Thank you for all your help and information you provide us.
I agree with your comment…. I don’t always have time to use the app or if I’ve got my special needs daughter with me she doesn’t have the patience so if I have this information upfront it is very useful.
This is so very useful. Thank you
Many thanks Julie.
Thank you for your tips i would never buy after sun made by Cien , i really didn’t think it would be that good !! But you have changed my mind i am off to buy some ☺️
I have been having issues with yellow residue on sheets from sun creams and after sun creams. In your research is something you have come across
Thank you Yuca, you are doing very valuable and essential work in today’s diverse marketplace. We did not know how much we needed something like your app. However I am a bit worried about your latest information sheet on the “ Top 10 after Sun” as some might infer that you are being sponsored by the manufacturers. We always check the ingredients using your app before buying anyway, hence you do not need to recommend specific products may I suggest as it might subtract from your impartially.
Thank you
Thank you
I love MIDI12 – the whole range is graded excellent by you. Its a little-known independent brand I much prefer supporting over major conglomerates. You can buy it from salons so you’re supporting their business too. Take a look at Luxury Skincare Brands website.
Thanks this is great! Would be very useful to have a typical buying price so we can also assess the relationship between ranking on your survey and retail price.
Thankyou. Thats really useful!
What about Boots, after sun.
Thank you for your brilliant work. You have changed the way that I shop. I recommend your app to who ever listens to me.
Thanks for taking the time to post these so very helpful given there is so much rubbish out there !!
Amazing thank you I was surprised to see Cien was top rated.
Thanks for this, Julie, much appreciated. An important and very useful study, made even more special by its independent approach.
What I’m not seeing, however, but assuming via your clear dedication to “all things pure & healthy”, is the assurance that no chemical nasties of whatever format are resident in any of the above chosen products, even items relatively low on the harmful scale, e.g. “parfum”, etc.
It’s one thing to trust people like yourself, which we all do, but it’s quite another to have a full exposé of the full picture, esp. with a formal test exercise like this one.
So, whilst I accept the above exercise at face value, I’d still like to be able to obtain the fuller, ingredient picture, even if it’s simply for complete assurance.
If you have the app and click on the items listed it will give you a list of all ingredients
If you haven’t already done so,
could you list a top ten of sun creams for spending time in the sun.
I have recently thrown several way after YUKA testing them.
A few were found to contain very harmful additives.
Hi Richard, there was one back in May. Here is the link to it 🙂
https://yuka.io/en/tops/sunscreens-uk/
Very helpful, I get prickly heat I’m very interested in sunscreen if you have any info on that please.
Hi, if you click on the blog link, you will find the sunscreen top 10 list.
Thank you this was very helpful and informative.
Have you done the sunscreens too? That would be good to share. Love your website 👍🏼
I was just going to ask this !
In the menu, select blog , scroll down and there’s an article on best suncreams.
I’ve just bought one that’s recommended (Nivea babies and kids) as the ones we had were 0/100 when I scanned them! 😱
Thanks for info it’s surprising which ones are the best , not always an expensive option.
Thanks can you do the same for suncreams?
Thanks for sharing
I have been using your number 1 aftersún my sister in law told me about your app and I have been using it ever since have 2 grandchildren so I check everything was looking for sun cream and aftersún thank you for this app
That’s great thanks for sharing 👍
Thank so much for good things find
Really useful information -thanks- am going on holiday soon so was looking for an after sun cream that wasn’t full of “nasties”
I need to
Although I find Yuka great and very helpful, majority of these aftersuns are not cruelty free! Which I feel is very disappointing and upsetting that they are being promoted, in 2025 this should not still be happening!
The aldi/lidl ones are
Such great information! Thank you. So hard to find good products. I scan so many products each time I go shopping.
Wow eye opener
Very helpful, could you do the same for sunscreen please.
Hi, they did sunscreen a month or so back, see if you can find it, maybe on the website
https://yuka.io/en/tops/sunscreens-uk/comment-page-1/#comment-237292
Thank you excellent important information.
Very helpful. Sunscreen info would be good too.
Brilliant to know thank you
Thanks for sharing this great information
Would love to know how suncreams rate as well
Good to know thanks 🤩
Really good information. Thank you very much.
Amazing – thank you
Great piece if information. Thanks
Thank you. Very useful.
This is great thanks. Will you do a sunscreen one too please. Would be great to see more of these, unless you do and I’ve missed it! Shampoo, conditioner. Moisturizer, toner, cuticle cream, eyelash serum, mascara, eyeliner…
Thank you for the advice
These reviews are soooo useful. Thank for taking time and trouble to do them. Very much appreciated
Thank you for conducting this, well worth knowing.
Can you please do a sunscreen one
Good to know thanks for informing me
I would like to put Apivita after sun on the list
It is a very nice cream .
Leaves skin soft soothed and non greasy