NIOD | SURVIVAL 30

This product review originally appeared in my blog article titled, Skincarma Approved : The Best Facial Sunscreen Products. You can catch it here.

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Contrary to the Dr. Gross sunscreen, I talk about this one all the time. In fact, I included it recently in my blog article, My Quick Summer Skincare Regimen. You can read it here if you missed it! If you caught it already, feel free to jump ahead to the next product.

I first reviewed NIOD’s Survival 30 mineral sunscreen several months ago in a blog article titled, My Favorite Facial Sunscreen Product: NIOD Survival 30. You’re welcome to read it here.

In it, I fessed up that because the brand’s Survival sunscreen formulas haven’t been validated by the US FDA, I order it illegally online from the UK-based site Cult Beauty.

I usually buy a six-month supply for fear of a crackdown! And I just discovered that I’m on my last bottle of it. Ugh…

Here’s the thing that makes it next-level: Survival 30 is much more than a sunscreen. There are actually four Survival formulas — sunscreen-free Survival 0 and three with sun protection.

Like all of the Survival formulas in the NIOD Survival series, Survival 30 is antioxidant-powered to reinforce the skin’s defenses against both environmental and lifestyle assaults. Survival 30 is formulated to target the effects of multiple daily aggressors including a range of free "oxygen" radicals including the superoxide radical, nitrogen radicals and carbonyl radicals.

If antioxidant protection were measured like sunscreen is with a “broad-spectrum” designation, this would be classified as broad-spectrum antioxidant protection.

“Survival is a range of four networked protection systems with technologies that help support healthy skin defences against environmental and lifestyle-related assaults.”

- NIOD

The texture of Survival 30 is amazing. It’s got a super-spreadable, liquid viscosity that’s more like a serum than a lotion. It applies quickly and I’ve found it effective in the eye area with no migration into the eyes.

There’s a whole lot more to the Survival formulas that boosts their defensive efficacy, including purified Lutein, yeast-derived Superoxide Dismutase, Pycnogenol and Dimethylmethoxy Chromanol — a potent free-radical scavenger.

NIOD’s Survival 30 is one of the most well-formulated pro-skin health treatments I’ve ever come across. It’s worth the effort — and certainly worth getting your hands on it illegally if that’s what you have to do!

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