The best around

As a Scottish girlie, if there’s one thing I have stashed in every handbag, tote and should bag, it’s a tube of SPF. I could sunburnt in a thunderstorm and now I’m in my 30s and obsessed with skincare, I ain’t taking any risks.

Any beauty expert will tell you that Japan is home to the best SPFs you can buy and when I visited in October 2023, it was still hot enough to warrant buying. Little did I know that when I casually picked up an unassuming blue bottle in Don Quijote, I had inadvertently changed my skincare routine forever.

The bottle of this so-called Biore UV Aqua Rich Watery Essence featured a muddle of kanji and symbols........

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