Joy to the world for my first day at the beach: my summer 2017 starts with a new sunscreen with a high and smart multi-action: Pupa Super Cream Intensive Tanning with SPF 30 and Melastim Tech, a melanin activator
You can’t imagine how much time I’ve spent to make my choice. In the end, the shop owner was very happy to see me picking this Pupa Super Cream Intensive Tanning cream SPF 30. A choice done not for this superhero name but Pupa’s promise and authority in skincare and beauty matters. I’ve never tried a sun care product by Pupa before, so it was a real discovery for my delicate, pale skin.
Far from being just a make-up company, Pupa has a well-stocked line of sunscreens, self-tanning, and after-sun products.
Pupa describes its Super Cream Intensive Tanning as “a sun protection product for face, body, lips, hair and scalp […]
and continues – Tanned and protected skin. What a great way to soak up the sun!”. Am I golden, not crunchy, right now? Let’s find it out!
THE PRODUCT: packaging
Pupa Super Cream Intensive Tanning SPF 30 is a multi purpose product contained in a big 200ml bronze tube with a very solid cap.
Formula and texture
Pupa Super Cream Intensive Tanning SPF 30 is a yellowish cream with a fairly dense consistency. It melts pleasantly while massaging it; it results very moisturising and slightly oily, but not too much. Indeed, my skin absorbs it with ease. This sunscreen has a light sweet scent.
Pupa Super Cream Intensive Tanning SPF30 has a multi-purpose formula studied to protect and hydrate intensively the skin. It contains sweet almond oil and shea butter, known as nourishing ingredients, Pro-vitamin B5 to soothe the skin and a clinically tested factor, called Melastim Tech, which stimulates melanin production in order to intensify and prolong the tan. Its SPF level is high and its formulation makes its protection active at a wide spectrum, in fact, this Pupa sunscreen cream shields from UVA rays, the most harmful ones. This Pupa sun cream is dermatologically tested and parabens-free to reduce any risks of allergy, the formula is also water and sweat resistant and ‘sand repellent‘.
How to use
This multi-purpose sunblock can be applied from head to toe and works as more products in one. In fact, it can be used as:
- a body and face sunscreen (remember to repeat the application after swimming or sweating),
- a lip balm to protect lips from sun, wind and sea salt aggression,
- a scalp balm to shield the skin along your hairline,
- an intensive hair mask.
Its versatility attracted me: I couldn’t miss a delicate sunblock for face, body and hair, but I read too late it isn’t intended as a leave-in hair treatment…
After trying and using it, I can say its fragrance isn’t too sweet or overwhelming, and its formula doesn’t glue sand on my body. However, avoiding this ‘panko effect‘ is pretty impossible. Pupa Super Cream Intensive Tanning protects without irritating the skin but requires more applications, despite it’s a water and sweat resistant product. When applied to the end of your locks, it seems to wrap and shield them against the typical summer dryness and saltiness.
What about the Melastim Tech, the featured melanin activator? I wouldn’t believe in but it’s true: I’ve never had such a long-lasting and caramel tan so far! This Pupa sunscreen really helps skin to tan easily, faster but safer and make it last longer. My phototype II is a ‘tan enemy’, I hardly tan and I usually go straight from lunar paleness to lobster flush in a few days, then to come back to my original pitiful state in a couple of months.
PROS:
it hydrates for hours,
it’s delicate both on face and lips,
it’s a multi-purpose product,
it protects effectively from UVA rays,
it leaves the skin totally silky (to the touch and sight),
it’s soothing,
it eases and enhances suntan,
suntan lasts longer.
CONS:
it’s partially ‘sweat resistant’ and ‘sand repellent’,
the packaging is too small for the quantity needed,
it’s expensive.
Expensive, yep: Pupa Super Cream Intensive Tanning is available in three different factors, from SPF 6 to 30; and costs around 20€, but its price varies depending on your country and distributor. I bought my Pupa sunscreen cream on offer at 11€, bu the regular price would be really prohibitive considering it as an all-over-product.
I suggest to buy it only on promotion or used as sunblock during sports and other outdoor activities, meaning in small quantities: indeed, I use it every day to protect my milky skin when I go biking! I’m sure I’m going to keep using it in the morning, but I’ll opt for a cheaper sunscreen for sunbathing. Despite its price, I recommend Pupa Super Cream Intensive Tanning because it’s very useful, extremely delicate and versatile, especially for its quick and intensive effect I wished for and craved.
Now that you’ve got your sunscreen, are you sure you’ve got the right swimwear? There’s a perfect swimwear for every and each body shape… I’ve chosen a crochet monokini!
How much time do you need to become a Brazilian girl?
Slow down, better be careful with the sun: most importantly, stay safe from head to toe! I’m going to put some more Pupa Super Cream Intensive Tanning…
Valentina Chirico aka Valens
