Does Sunscreen Go Bad?

Posted on February 23, 2015

Does Sunscreen Go Bad?You all have done this.  Opened up that sunscreen which was sitting in your car/suitcase/cabinet and used it.  Who knows how OLD it was… Sometimes it was cakey, or yellow, or smelled a bit off.  But you used it anyway.  The question is does old sunscreen still work?

I read a blog on this, where someone asked, can they use the sunscreen they bought last summer, or do they need to purchase a new bottle each year? The answer was a non-answer in some ways- they said “dermatologists recommend using sunscreen daily, not summer only, so if you are using it daily and in the correct amount a bottle should not last long.”

Sounds great. Not realistic.

BUT they had some good information on how to rate ancient sunscreen you find.