Abib Quick sunstick Protection bar SPF50+ PA++++

What is this product?

Buy this if you reapply sunscreen over makeup and hate the drag a waxy stick gives. Two amino acid gelators at positions 4 and 5 build the bullet out of an oil phase instead of wax, so it glides and leaves a light sheen rather than a matte film, and five organic filters mean no white cast is possible: the 26 entry list has no zinc oxide and no titanium dioxide in it. The brand publishes measured protection indices with standard deviations and names its testing institution, dates and 30 person panel, which is better attribution than most of this format. Two things to weigh: octocrylene sits at position 11, and the patented acacia peptide the copy advertises does not appear in the brand's own ingredient list under any recognisable name.

What makes it different?

A wax free stick structure built on two amino acid gelators, paired with a brand that publishes measured SPF and PA indices with standard deviations rather than only the grade.

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Each name links to what we know about that ingredient.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Octyldodecanol
• Butylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate
• Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate
• Dibutyl Ethylhexanoyl Glutamide
• Dibutyl Lauroyl Glutamide
• Diisostearyl Malate
• Ethylhexyl Salicylate
• Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate
• Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine
• Dextrin Palmitate
• Octocrylene
• Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract
• Water
• Butylene Glycol
• Saccharide Isomerate
• Glycerin
• Maltodextrin
• Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
• Hydrogenated Lecithin
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Ceramide NP
• Citric Acid
• Sodium Citrate

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 10 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. 4 of them hold up. The rest are only partly right or have nothing behind them.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

Each line is quoted as the brand published it, and each one was read on its own against the ingredient list and the documents the brand publishes.

How we read these lines

What else is worth seeing?

Products we read alongside this one.

• Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Sun StickAnother product in the same category
• AHC Masters Icy Jelly Sun StickThe stronger one of the two

Which articles cover it?

Articles on this site that write about this product.

• You buy a sun stick to reapply, and nothing tells you how much you appliedWe read 23 Korean sun sticks. Here is the gap between the conditions an SPF number is made under and what a stick can tell you, plus what the labels disclose.