Many moisturizers with SPF utilize zinc oxide, because it’s a physical sunscreen that can block out the sun’s harmful rays. Below, we’ve rounded up highly-rated products that contain zinc oxide.

Details: This tinted facial sunscreen contains zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. It’s also a National Eczema Foundation-accepted sunscreen that is water-resistant for up to 80 minutes.

Formulated with non-nano zinc oxide (23.5%), it offers broad-spectrum protection and was a staff favorite in our tests for a couple of reasons. It rubs in easily.

Zinc oxide sunscreen might conjure images of lifeguards with white noses, but this one rubs in the clearest of those we evaluated, and with minimal effort. Once on skin, Bodyshield SPF 50 feels ...

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticle distribution in excised human skin. The black line represents the surface of the skin (top), blue represents ZnO nanoparticle distribution in the skin (stratum ...

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Zinc oxide helps form a physical barrier on your skin to reflect and absorb the sun’s UVA and UVB rays. It is also used in other skincare products to help protect and soothe irritated skin.

For many, zinc oxide conjures images of bright stripes down lifeguards' noses. But for researchers, ZnO is an exciting compound with important optical and electrical properties.