Does the brand "Duke Cannon" make a sunscreen (excluding lip balm)
Executive summary
Yes — Duke Cannon publishes and retails multiple face lotions marketed with sunscreen protection (SPF 30 or SPF 32) separate from their sunscreen lip balm product, and these face lotions are sold through the brand’s site and major retailers such as Target, CVS, Kohl’s and Best Buy [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].
1. The product reality: face lotions with SPF, not just lip balm
Duke Cannon’s catalog and retailer listings show several distinct face-lotion products labeled and sold as sunscreens: “Daily Defense Face Lotion SPF 32” appears on Duke Cannon’s site and at retail partners (Target, CVS) as a lightweight daily SPF moisturizer [1] [2] [3], while “Standard Issue 2‑in‑1 SPF Face Lotion” and other SPF face lotions are listed on retailer pages as broad‑spectrum SPF 30 offerings [4] [6] [7] [5].
2. The formulations shown in public listings: active ingredients and claims
Retail product pages for Duke Cannon face lotions include sunscreen active-ingredient listings and claims: for example, a Kohl’s listing for a travel-sized “Standard Issue” product specifies active sunscreen ingredients including avobenzone, homosalate, octinoxate, octisalate and oxybenzone and markets the item as broad-spectrum SPF 30 [4], while Duke Cannon’s product copy describes the Daily Defense face lotion as a mineral-based SPF 32 moisturizer on its own site and reseller pages [1] [8].
3. How the brand positions these items versus the lip balm
Duke Cannon frames its SPF face lotions as daily, non-greasy, masculine‑targeted moisturizers with sun protection, distinct from its notably large sunscreen lip balm which is sold separately and labeled with SPF 15 for lips [1] [9]. The lip balm also appears in third‑party safety/ingredient databases like EWG with a detailed active‑ingredient list for that product specifically [10], showing the company markets multiple sunscreen‑category SKUs rather than only a lip product.
4. Retail footprint and consumer visibility
Multiple national retailers and specialty sellers list Duke Cannon SPF face lotions alongside other grooming goods, which demonstrates distribution beyond a single novelty or seasonal SKU: Target and CVS list the Daily Defense SPF 32 face lotion [2] [3], Best Buy and other merchants list an “Every Damn Day” or SPF 30 face lotion [5], and Kohl’s and other sellers carry the Standard Issue SPF 30 formula with explicit ingredient panels [4] [6].
5. Limits of the reporting and competing interpretations
Public product pages and reseller descriptions constitute clear evidence that Duke Cannon makes SPF face lotions, but product copy varies between “mineral” and chemical‑ingredient formulations across pages [1] [4], and not all pages publish identical ingredient lists; this makes it impossible from these sources alone to definitively map every SKU’s formulation history or to assert whether each listing is current or discontinued without checking live inventory on the brand’s site or contacting Duke Cannon directly [1] [4]. Additionally, marketing language—“tested by soldiers” or “non‑greasy” phrasing on some retailer pages—functions as brand positioning that may obscure differences between formulas or sizes [4] [6].
Conclusion: direct answer
Duke Cannon does make sunscreens beyond lip balm: multiple face lotions marketed and sold as SPF products (SPF 30 and SPF 32) are published on the company site and sold through major retailers [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. The EWG entry and product pages confirm a separate sunscreen lip balm exists (SPF 15) but the weight of evidence shows full‑size and travel‑size face sunscreens are part of Duke Cannon’s product lineup as well [9] [10].