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Global / Regional Comparisons articles.

Every Global / Regional Comparisons article on the blog — sourced, science-led, zero hype.

Global 06 Nov 2026 Holiday Gift Guide: The Best Global Sunscreens to Gift Cult international favorites worth wrapping up. Read article →
Global 31 Aug 2026 A Year of Sunscreen Progress: Where the US Stands Now Taking stock after the big approval. Read article →
Global 21 Aug 2026 Does the New Filter Close the US-EU Gap? Not Quite An honest look at how far there is still to go. Read article →
Global 15 Aug 2026 Why It Still Takes 18 Months Before Every Brand Can Use the New Filter The exclusivity window behind the rollout. Read article →
Global 10 Aug 2026 Will the New Filter Make US Sunscreens Feel Better? The texture and protection promise of bemotrizinol. Read article →
Global 03 Aug 2026 The US Filter List Just Grew — Here's the New Lineup What 'GRASE' filters Americans can now access. Read article →
Global 20 Jun 2026 After Bemotrizinol, What's Next on the FDA's Filter List? The other filters still waiting at the border. Read article →
Global 10 Jun 2026 America Just Caught Up to Europe (a Little) How the bemotrizinol approval narrows the filter gap. Read article →
Global 15 May 2026 How Australia Cut Its Melanoma Rates Lessons from the country that gave us Slip, Slop, Slap. Read article →
Global 27 Apr 2026 Why the EU Updates Its Filter List and the US Doesn't (Often) Why the EU and US approve sunscreen filters at two very different speeds. Read article →
Global 19 Apr 2026 What 'Quasi-Drug' Means on a Japanese Sunscreen Decoding the regulatory label on your J-beauty favorite. Read article →
Global 11 Apr 2026 Bioderma, La Roche-Posay, Beauty of Joseon: A Global Sunscreen Tour The international cult favorites, and what actually makes them special. Read article →
Global 02 Apr 2026 The Filter Gap, Visualized: A Side-by-Side World Map Which UV filters are legal where — at a glance. Read article →
Global 24 Mar 2026 Why Some Countries Cap SPF Labels at 50+ Why you rarely see SPF 100 on shelves in Europe or Asia. Read article →
Global 14 Mar 2026 The Real Reason European Sunscreens Cost Less per Bottle It comes down to regulation, scale, and the cosmetic-vs-drug divide. Read article →
Global 05 Mar 2026 Why Japanese Sunscreens Feel So Elegant The texture engineering behind the cult favorites. Read article →
Global 28 Feb 2026 The Sunscreens Europeans Have That Americans Desperately Want A wishlist of formulas stuck at the U.S. border. Read article →
Global 21 Feb 2026 Australia's SPF Standards Are Among the World's Strictest The country with the highest skin cancer rates also has the toughest rules. Read article →
Global 15 Feb 2026 K-Beauty Sunscreen Culture: Why Korea Treats SPF Like a Lifestyle Daily reapplication, cushion compacts, and PA ratings as the norm. Read article →
Global 09 Feb 2026 What the FDA Actually Requires to Approve a Sunscreen Filter Why 'it's safe in Europe' isn't enough for US approval. Read article →
Global 03 Feb 2026 Europe vs America vs Asia: Who Makes the Best Sunscreen? A regulatory and formulation showdown. Read article →
Global 30 Jan 2026 Why You Can't Legally Buy That Viral Japanese Sunscreen in the US Importing that viral Japanese sunscreen is a gray area, and the reason is regulatory. Read article →
Global 23 Jan 2026 What PA++++ Means on Your Asian Sunscreen Those plus signs are a UVA rating system the US doesn't use. Read article →
Global 15 Jan 2026 The 34 vs 16 Problem: A Filter Map of the World Europe has 34 approved UV filters. The US has 16. Here's the gap. Read article →