Is Nivea good for sensitive skin?

Yes, Nivea is recommended for sensitive skin. Their products are formulated with gentle ingredients.

What is Nivea's price range?

Nivea is a budget German beauty brand. They offer 8 products across their range.

Nivea

budgetEst. 1911· Germany

Skincare for everyone — mass-market, dermatologist-tested, always in a blue tin.

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The original blue-tin cult. Creme is still a working-class classic. A few product ranges (Q10, MicellAIR) deserve more credit than the mass-shelf label suggests.

Strengths

+ Rock-bottom price
+ Dermatologist-tested legacy
+ Globally available

Weaknesses

− Mass-market formulas
− Fragrance-heavy lines
− Inconsistent across ranges

The Nivea Story

Nivea Creme launched in Hamburg in 1911 — the world's first water-in-oil emulsion you could keep at room temperature. The blue tin has been essentially unchanged since 1925. Beiersdorf's flagship brand, now a €10B business.

Shop Nivea by skin type

Curated picks from Nivea's lineup, ranked for each skin type.

Best for Dry Skin (7)Best for Combination Skin (6)Best for Sensitive Skin (3)Best for Mature Skin (6)

All Nivea Products

13 products reviewed and rated.

Nivea Cellular Luminous630 Anti-Spot Serum — German beauty serum

Treatment

8.6/10

Cellular Luminous630 Anti-Spot Serum

Nivea's Cellular Luminous630 brings Thiamidol (the same Beiersdorf-patented Phenylethyl Resorcinol active in Eucerin Anti-Pigment) into a drugstore-priced format — niacinamide, sodium hyaluronate, tetrahydrocurcuminoids, and the same Beiersdorf tone-work pedigree, at €22. The drugstore answer to Spanish pharmacy serums.

Mature

Sunscreen

8.5/10

Sun UV Face Shine Control SPF 50

Nivea's Sun UV Face Shine Control SPF 50 is the Drogerie sunscreen that makes expensive European face SPFs look overpriced. The formula uses Beiersdorf's proven UV filter combination — Tinosorb S (Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine) for photostable broad-spectrum protection, Uvinul A Plus (DHHB) for UVA coverage, and Uvinul T 150 (Ethylhexyl Triazone) for UVB — the same filter system that La Roche-Posay and Eucerin charge 3-4x more for. The 'shine control' claim comes from silica and tapioca starch, which absorb sebum throughout the day without the chalky dryness of most mattifying sunscreens. Licorice root extract (Glycyrrhiza inflata) adds anti-inflammatory and mild depigmenting action. At under €10 in every dm and Rossmann across Germany, this is the sunscreen German pharmacists recommend when customers say they don't want to spend €25 on Eucerin's SPF. It works. It mattifies. It costs less than lunch.