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Laura Mercier
Translucent Loose Setting Powder
8.3Great
The benchmark loose setting powder: finely milled, truly translucent and long-wearing, though it contains talc and costs $43.
Powder4$43.00
Clarify · Oil & Pores
Shine control
4 products we review are built for shine control — 50% of them complexion. The ingredients doing most of the work: vitamin e, chemical uv filters and niacinamide. Most are made for oily skin, normal skin and combination skin.
Breakouts, blackheads, oil and pores — the clear-skin department, minus the stripping.
Top rated
The shine control podium.
The ingredients behind it
Key actives in the products that deliver shine control — tap one for what it does and how strong the evidence is.
Often paired with
Benefits that tend to come along for the ride.
4 products
Every shine control pick.
4 products
Best value
Maybelline New York
Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation
8.2Great
A $11.99 oil-free matte foundation in 40 shades that remains a go-to drugstore pick for normal to oily skin.
Foundation4$11.99
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The Ordinary
Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1%
7.9Good
A $6 cult niacinamide serum that helps many oily, blemish-prone users with shine and pores, though a vocal minority reports breakouts.
Serum5$6.00
Budget pick
Neutrogena
Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunscreen Lotion Broad Spectrum SPF 55
7.6Good
A cheap, water-resistant drugstore classic with a fast-drying, non-shiny finish; it is fragranced, and white-cast reports are mixed.
SPF 552