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Global / Regional Comparisons
articles.
Every Global / Regional Comparisons article in the journal — sourced, science-led, no hype.
- Global America Just Caught Up to Europe (a Little) How the bemotrizinol approval narrows the filter gap. Read article →
- Global How Australia Cut Its Melanoma Rates Lessons from the country that gave us Slip, Slop, Slap. Read article →
- Global 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 What 'Quasi-Drug' Means on a Japanese Sunscreen Decoding the regulatory label on your J-beauty favorite. Read article →
- Global Bioderma, La Roche-Posay, Beauty of Joseon: A Global Sunscreen Tour The international cult favorites, and what actually makes them special. Read article →
- Global The Filter Gap, Visualized: A Side-by-Side World Map Which UV filters are legal where — at a glance. Read article →
- Global Why Some Countries Cap SPF Labels at 50+ Why you rarely see SPF 100 on shelves in Europe or Asia. Read article →
- Global The Real Reason European Sunscreens Cost Less per Bottle It comes down to regulation, scale, and the cosmetic-vs-drug divide. Read article →
- Global Why Japanese Sunscreens Feel So Elegant The texture engineering behind the cult favorites. Read article →
- Global The Sunscreens Europeans Have That Americans Desperately Want A wishlist of formulas stuck at the U.S. border. Read article →
- Global 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 K-Beauty Sunscreen Culture: Why Korea Treats SPF Like a Lifestyle Daily reapplication, cushion compacts, and PA ratings as the norm. Read article →
- Global 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 Europe vs America vs Asia: Who Makes the Best Sunscreen? A regulatory and formulation showdown. Read article →
- Global 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 What PA++++ Means on Your Asian Sunscreen Those plus signs are a UVA rating system the US doesn't use. Read article →
- Global 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 →
- Global Why Your Korean Sunscreen Feels Like Water and Your American One Feels Like Paste It's not the brands; it's the filters they're legally allowed to use. Read article →