Ingredient · INCI listed
Iron Oxides
The pigments that give tinted products their color — and, more usefully, help shield skin from visible light, a meaningful benefit for melasma and deeper skin tones.
Data summary
Products containing
48
Most common in
35 products
sunscreens
Typical pairing
Zinc Oxide
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In the catalog
Iron Oxides by the numbers.
Iron Oxides appears in 53 products across the DermFND catalog, and it's strongly concentrated in sunscreens — 38 products, 72% of where it shows up. Formulations carrying it score 79/100 on average (well above the catalog norm); the strongest is SkinBetter Science sunbetter TONE SMART SPF 68 at 89/100.
Of those, 27 products score 80 or higher in our analysis. It co-occurs most with Zinc Oxide (47 shared formulas) and Titanium Dioxide (24 shared formulas). The median price of a iron oxides product here is $42.
Where it shows up
