6 BB Creams to Use on Days When You Just Can't Deal With Foundation

This ultra-affordable BB cream from Maybelline promises seven benefits in one product. It can cover imperfections, brighten skin, correct an uneven tone, smooth the skin, hydrate, enhance a complexion, and protect with SPF. On days when you want a fresh look without doing a full face, reach for this product instead. It offers enough coverage to pass as a light foundation without the overdone feel.

Specifically designed for oily and combination skin, this BB cream is guaranteed not to clog pores. It provides moderate blemish coverage, helps to control oil, and even minimizes the look of your pores, all while delivering broad-spectrum SPF 40 protection. Choose from five different shades ranging from light to deep.

If you find yourself constantly battling slick skin, add this oil-free BB cream to your skincare routine, stat. It's designed to correct shine, minimize pores, even skin tone, hydrate, and protect the skin with SPF 15, yet thanks to the super-gentle formula, it won’t clog your pores when used as an everyday product. Even though the formula is made for oilier skin types, the moisturizing properties make it a great product for people with dry or combination skin as well.

The formula is also made with the antioxidant wild berry, which helps protect both the appearance of your skin while also improving it, so your skin looks great even after you take off your makeup at the end of the day.

This top-rated BB cream from popular K-beauty brand MISSHA is the best product for everyday use. According to the brand, this cream is their best selling product, with over 30 million bottles sold worldwide thus far. In addition to strong sun protection, thanks to the SPF 42, this lightweight and comfortable cream helps to heal visible wrinkles and other imperfections and signs of aging while it’s worn. While most BB creams help to conceal blemishes, this MISSHA BB cream is full-coverage, so it can be worn daily as an alternative to a cakey foundation and will stay in place all throughout the day.

If your skin could use a little extra love and hydration, reach for this nourishing BB cream from Burt’s Bees. This mineral-rich formula promises nine benefits: SPF 15 sun protection, moisturizing, smoothing, skin firming, illuminating, tone evening, concealing, reduction of fine lines and wrinkles, and it also acts as a skin perfector. As a bonus: Like most of Burt’s Bees’ products, the formula is made with 98.9% natural ingredients, so you can feel good about what you’re putting on your face.