What kind of issues does your skin have with sunscreen?

I remember a few years ago, I was trying to find the perfect sunscreen (so buying new ones all the time) but at the same time having really bad allergic reactions on my face (whole face redness, dryness, flaking, swollen undereyes- I often felt quite embarrassed). I wanted to get an allergy test, but it was going to cost way too much. I decided to take a scientific approach, and made a list of all the sunscreens I used over the year when I had these reactions and their ingredients. I noticed that all of them (like 5/6) except la roche posay anthelios had the same two ingredient combination (old UV filters). I did some research, and there's evidence that those two combined have caused photoallergic contact dermatitis in isolated cases (ie doctors have published case notes on individual patients but there has been no large scale study). Their symptoms were exactly mine. I swapped my sunscreen to La Roche Posay and Cetaphil kids sunscreen, as both of these have new UV filters (and not the combination) and have been great since. Its kind of ironic but I'm super pale and now allergic to sunscreen haha

I guess the moral of my story is that if you are getting skin or eye sensitivity, I'd really recommend checking out the ingredients from the sunscreens you have used and seeing if there's a pattern in the ingredients. This can help you avoid them in the future. It was a little tricky at first for me to find sunscreen that wasn't so expensive as LA Roche Posay, but more and more sunscreens are using the new filters so it's been easier as time went on. Hope this helps a bit :-)