Prep. Prime. Protect. The best primer with SPF will up the ante for your everyday skincare and makeup, as it harmoniously traverses through the two regimes. After the usual CTM (cleanse-tone-moisturize) comes your SPF for the day out, followed by the makeup base, including primer and foundation. A primer is the perfect transcendental product that lays the underwork for makeup as it finishes the skincare. Creamy, serum-like, gel-based, clear, or tinted, the primer works to minimize the pores, blur fine lines and wrinkles, hydrate the skin, and create a barrier that locks in all the skincare. You achieve a fresh base that grips the makeup and elongates its stay. A broad-spectrum SPF-infused primer performs the dual job of protection and prepping.

A generous application of primer-imbued SPF is like adding a film filter on your skin which mitigates the skin damage posed by UVA, UVB rays, and environmental stressors, while also perfecting the skin texture and complexion. Without any white cast, irritated skin, and clogged pores, you can make your flawless makeup last long, and lessen the routine steps. 

We too have prepped a coherent list of best primers with sunscreen for a seamless morning self-care session. Read on to navigate the top picks and a buying guide for your perusal.

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  BEST LIGHTWEIGHT / MATTIFYING

  Colorescience Mattifying Primer

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Elevate your morning beauty ritual with Colorescience Mattifying Perfector Face Primer. More than a primer, it's a sun shield and skin mattifier in one. This water-resistant mineral sunscreen, boasting broad-spectrum 20 SPF UV protection, transforms your routine. Effortlessly blending into your skin, it not only prepares your canvas for makeup but also safeguards it against harmful UV rays. Experience a velvety matte finish that lasts all day. It's your secret weapon against the sun, ensuring your beauty shines through while shielding your skin. You can now perfect your morning routine with this multitasking gem.

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Supergoop! Glowscreen

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To start your day on the right foot, let the multitasking duo of sunscreen and primer prep your skin. The Supergoop sunscreen is a broad spectrum with SPF 40 and comes infused with primer properties to act as a non-greasy and glowy base for your makeup. The hydrating formula with hyaluronic acid, vitamin B5, and niacinamide helps in perfecting the skin complexion and texture, leaving a dewy, pearl-like finish. For satin-supple skin, you can use this primer as a bridging step between your skincare and makeup. Besides giving sound protection from UVA and UVB rays, it also filters blue light.

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best lightweight / mattifying

NEW COVERGIRL Trublend Base Business

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Transcending seamlessly between your skincare’s sunscreen step into your makeup’s priming step, this base blend by COVERGIRL is an indispensable tube in your self-care bag. For flawless and long-lasting results, try this face primer that is tailor-made for different skin types. The creamy formula is lightweight and caters to specific skin needs; for instance, the white is for skin smoothing, the green formula is for color neutralizing, the purple minimizes the pores, and the peach is made to illuminate the skin. All this goodness is coupled with SPF 20 to additionally offer sun protection.

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Best Waterproof

Peter Thomas Roth Max Clear Invisible Priming Sunscreen

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Elevate your morning beauty routine with Peter Thomas Roth Max Clear Invisible Priming Sunscreen SPF 45. This innovative makeup primer doubles as a powerful water-resistant sunscreen gel, offering broad-spectrum protection while creating a flawless canvas for your makeup. With a silky finish, it effortlessly blends into your skin, enhancing your natural beauty. Shield yourself from harmful UV rays and ensure your makeup stays impeccable all day. It's more than a primer; it's your daily defense and beauty enhancer, perfectly fitting into your morning ritual.

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Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Moisturizing Face Serum

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For sun-drenching days, you need superior protection from scorching heat and sunburn along with minimal layers on your skin to feel light and airy. Enter, the face serum by Neutrogena with SPF 60+. The vitamin E-imbued formula with a soft texture provides your skin with intense hydration and broad-spectrum UVA and UVB protection. No surprise that this incredible formulation also functions as a makeup primer. The sheer product is non-comedogenic, perfect to create a flawless base for your makeup.

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Best drugstore pick

MAYBELLINE NEW YORK Master Prime

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A drugstore go-to for many, Maybelline New York’s primer is a water-soluble formula with active ingredients. For a refined look, this primer with SPF 30 blurs any skin imperfections to help you achieve a flawless, skin-perfected base. The multipurpose creamy emollient is lightweight, non-greasy, combats sun damage, and color-corrects the face. This enables an even base for a smooth and luminous makeup that grips and lasts long. From pore minimizing and redness control to smoothening and hydrating the skin, there’s a goal-specific product in this range for you to choose from, based on your skin requirements.

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Best anti-aging

LA ROCHE-POSAY Anthelios Anti-Aging Primer with Sunscreen

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Get this multi-faceted primer+sunscreen by LA ROCHE-Posay added to your skin-prepping line-up. The lightweight and buttery soft mousse texture provides the clubbed effect of anti-aging benefits and a broad spectrum SPF 50 protection. To be used daily for instant results, this mousse blurs signs of aging like fine lines, wrinkles, and pores. The shine-absorbing formula is perfect for a mattifying makeup base, to be used after a moisturizer. The oil-free and non-comedogenic whip-up evens out any skin imperfections.  Well-suited for all skin types, this duo is topped with cell-OX technology.

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Best skin finish

ALMAY Smart Shade CC Luminous Primer

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Complexion-correcting primer meets skincare with sun protection to perfect the skin. The ALMAY primer is a microspheres-based blend to deliver targeted results. The lavender microspheres are meant to even the skin tone and the green microspheres reduce the appearance of redness. This unique formula is lightweight, smoothening, hydrating, and mattifying. The luminous and brightening finish comes packed with SPF 15 and skin-prepping benefits. With a few brief pumps onto your fingertips, apply and blend the primer gently, let it dry, and move on to use your foundation.

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Best skincare benefits

Dermalogica Skinperfect Primer

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The skin-perfecting primer by Dermalogica has a unique line-up of ingredients to cater to specific needs and give you a flawless skin prep. The pearl powder and natural earth minerals lend a neutral tint for an even skin tone, organic radiance, and luminescence on the skin. The soy protein is beneficial for smoothened skin texture. The potent peptide present in the velvety primer lends firmness to the skin for a lifted appearance. The broad-spectrum sunscreen protects the skin from sun damage by UV light. With a silken application, this primer can be used after moisturizing your skin and creating a smooth base for your foundation and makeup.

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Best tinted primer

Glo Skin Beauty Tinted Primer

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Prepping your skin with all the goodness is a must while practicing your skincare regimen. The tinted primer by Glo Skin Beauty offers sun protection with pure mineral sunscreen. The swift glide with full-day coverage and instant results is a valuable addition to your beauty shelf. With sheer radiance, this lightweight formula evens the skin tone, smoothens the complexion, and has a semi-matte finish. The oil-free primer blocks harmful UVA and UVB rays with its SPF 30+ formulation.

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Best for makeup

HOURGLASS Veil Mineral Primer

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Enhance your makeup and your skincare all together with the mineral primer by HOURGLASS. This primer allows a smooth application of your foundation and also extends its wearability. It has complexion-perfecting properties to even texture, minimize pores, blur fine lines and wrinkles, and conceal redness. The broad spectrum SPF 15 protection is an added benefit that lessens the layers you need to put on the skin. Only a little a few drops are required to achieve the cloudy, airy, and silky texture finish.

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heimish Artless Glow Base SPF 50+ PA+++

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Imbued with rosa canina fruit extract and peppermint leaf extract, this multipurpose primer by heimish is a tone-up cream with SPF 50+ PA++++ sunscreen. With a serum-like formula, the non-greasy and smooth texture is lightweight on the skin and smoothens fine lines. You can achieve a radiant complexion with a gold-pearl-like base that shimmers with a subtle glow with this one. A makeup base with a dewy and refreshing finish on the go is delivered by this primer which is perfect for everyday wear.

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Best pore blurring

PAULA'S CHOICE Smoothing Primer Serum

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Glide on some skin-goodness on your face with this primer serum by PAULA’S CHOICE. The multi-tasking primer targets signs of aging like fine lines and wrinkles, enhances the skin tone, and evens the skin texture. With a combination of broad spectrum SPF 30, this formula protects against UV damage while creating a perfect base for your makeup with its silky texture. The presence of antioxidants also protects the skin from environmental damage. The fragrance-free and soothing serum is ideal for use twice a day for a wholesome skincare routine.

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e.l.f. SKIN Suntouchable

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Aloe, hyaluronic acid, and squalane come together in a tinted, skin-loving formula by e.l.f. to create the perfect primer that protects the skin from sun damage with broad-spectrum SPF 30. The lightweight formula with a hint of peach shimmer offers an instant glowy finish. The priming properties grip the makeup for long-lasting results while the SPF protects from UVA and UVB rays. The primer works to soothe, hydrate, and radiate the skin, and the sheer effect is perfect to layer beneath makeup.

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IMAGE Skincare, Prevention+ Daily Perfecting Primer

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Under our radar for good measure, this 100% mineral SPF 50 moisturizer by IMAGE Skincare is infused with a ferment-based ingredient that combats the damage caused by environmental stressors. The buildable formula has a seamless, sheer, and true-to-skin finish. It is ideal for a minimal routine that conjoins skincare and makeup. Get an even skin texture, softened wrinkles, a mattifying effect, and a silica-enhanced base for flawless skin. The formula is buildable and breathable, easy to blend, and features a natural citrusy scent.

These primers are from our favorites archive and cater to most skin types and needs. To pick what’s most suitable for you, here’s a mini guide for your assistance.

Finish: To enhance the finish of your foundation on the skin, the finish of your primer plus SPF plays a vital role. Whether you like a dewy, glowy, semi-matte, cloudy, or matte look, a similar finish primer will allow you to achieve it effortlessly, while also improving the application and stay of your foundation. 

Skin type: If you have oily or combination skin, a mattifying and non-oily primer plus SPF, which is also lightweight shall compliment your skin. For normal to dry skin, a hydrating primer with a soft dewy finish would suit best. For mature skin, an anti-aging product that blurs and softens fine lines and wrinkles will help create a smoother base for further makeup. If you are looking for minimal makeup, a tinted primer and sunscreen fits the bill. 

Ingredients: For all skin types, particularly for sensitive skin, an SPF primer without harsh chemicals and skin irritants is ideal. Mineral-based sunscreen-infused primers or ones with natural ingredients, antioxidants, etc are beneficial. Also, make sure it’s non-comedogenic, non-greasy, and lightweight for maintaining healthy skin.

As you envelop your freshly treated and moisturized skin with SPF and step into prepping it for the makeup base, the sunscreen met primer will come in handy. 

• After the CTM, bring out your primer SPF into action. 
• A little amount goes a long way, so dispense a couple of pumps, apply it on your face gently, and ensure full coverage. 
• Allow the primer to get absorbed and settle down for at least five minutes.
• Finally, proceed to blend in the foundation. Now your skin is moisturized, hydrated, protected with broad spectrum SPF, and finished flawlessly with foundation. 

Pro Hack: If your primer and SPF are lesser than 30+ SPF, apply your regular sunscreen which has no white cast, is non-oily, and lightweight, along with primer and makeup. This will ensure your skin is protected with the adequate SPF required.

Minimize your makeup layers, product lineup, and steps by including multifunctional beauty recipes like the primer with SPF. The sunscreen’s attributes help mitigate the damage caused by UV rays while the primer creates a smooth base by prepping the skin for makeup and foundation. Our list of primers with SPF includes the top-rated products that are suitable for all skin types, have varying textures, devoid of chemicals, and effectively deliver desired results. Based on your skin needs and personal preferences, pop the best primer with SPF on your AM skincare shelf.