Black-woman-founded; vegan and cruelty-free SPF formulated for deeper skin tones
| Ingredient transparency | Could not be retrieved (no readable product feed, or requests blocked) |
| Ownership | Black Girl Sunscreen has no parent company. It was founded in 2016 by Shontay Lundy, who remains its CEO and owner. The brand remains actively trading and is sold at Target, Walmart, Ulta and over 3,100 Walgreens stores. (Founder-owned) |
| Where made | Made in the USA from US and imported ingredients; the company is based in Los Angeles, California. |
| Price | Budget |
| Cruelty free | Yes |
| Vegan | Yes |
| Organic | No |
| Certifications | PETA Beauty Without Bunnies (cruelty free): genuine. PETA's own company database lists Black Girl Sunscreen as cruelty free, with neither ingredients nor finished products tested on animals.; Leaping Bunny (cruelty free): not held. Black Girl Sunscreen does not appear anywhere in Leaping Bunny's full published brand list, which was checked in its entirety.; Protect Land + Sea Certification (reef safety, Haereticus Environmental Laboratory): not held. Black Girl Sunscreen does not appear among the certified brands featured on the Haereticus Labs website. |
| Sold in mainland China | No public disclosure found; the brand is PETA certified cruelty free and vegan, which requires it not to sell where animal testing is mandatory. |
| Palm oil | No public disclosure found. |
| Packaging | Recyclable; plastic tubes |
| Good On You | No Good On You rating found. |
| EWG | Most products rate low hazard in EWG's Guide to Sunscreens, with the Make It Glow continuous spray rated moderate hazard. |
| External ratings | CFK cruelty-free & vegan; PETA |
| Lab tested | SPF tested to meet FDA labeling |
| Clinical studies | Not published |
| Controversies | Named in a California Proposition 65 sixty day notice alleging benzophenone exposure from its SPF 30 products, and sustainability reviewers flag petrochemical based ingredients sitting behind its natural ingredients marketing. |
| Caveat | Founded by Shontay Lundy in 2016 and independently run with venture backing; the reef safe framing rests only on the absence of oxybenzone and octinoxate, not on a mineral only formula. |
Claims made for this brand that could not be confirmed in a certifier's own register. A brand website is a claim, not a source.
Reef safe marketing claims. Black Girl Sunscreen is widely described in retail and blog coverage as a reef safe sunscreen, but this was not found stated on the brand's own site pages checked directly, and no Protect Land + Sea certification exists to substantiate a reef safe claim. Reef safe is an unregulated marketing term with no other certifier behind it, so it should not be published as a verified claim.
Black Girl Sunscreen PETA cruelty free listing https://crueltyfree.peta.org/company/black-girl-sunscreen/
Absence from Leaping Bunny's full brand list, checked via sitemap: and https://www.leapingbunny.org/sitemap.xml?page=2 https://www.leapingbunny.org/sitemap.xml?page=1
Absence from Protect Land + Sea certified brand list https://www.haereticus-lab.org/protect-land-sea-certification/
Founder Shontay Lundy, independent ownership, retail distribution https://blackgirlsunscreen.com/about/
Third party reef safe description (unsubstantiated by any certification) https://wanderingmoms.com/reef-safe-sunscreen-for-all-skin-tones/
Why there is no score: Site could not be read. No verdict is given. Neither a full ingredient read nor a check of the certifications against the certifiers own registers has been completed for this brand, so there is no basis for judging it either way. No score is published. No readable product listing could be found at https://blackgirlsunscreen.com, so the catalogue could not be enumerated. A manual product by product read has not yet been completed.
Last checked 22 July 2026.
Not yet independently verified. The certifications listed for this brand are as the brand states them. They have not yet been checked against the certifiers own registers, so they should be read as a claim rather than a confirmed fact.
This brand's product catalogue could not be retrieved automatically: the site exposes no machine-readable product feed, or blocks automated requests. Ingredients may still be listed on individual product pages. Its formulas are not yet verified here.
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