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Find the Best Sunscreen For You
Skin Care article posted on May 29, 2010 by Joséphine Beck, Digestive Care Advisor
Your favorite sunscreen may not be all it’s advertised to be... This is why the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit organization, assesses every year about 1,400 products with SPF (including beach and sports lotions, sprays and creams, moisturizers, make-up and lip balms) to tell consumers what they need to know to find safe and effective sunscreens. What are the best sunscreens on the market?
Which sunscreens do EWR researchers recommend?
This year, EWG researchers recommend only 39 (8 percent) of 500 beach and sport sunscreens. All top-rated products contain either zinc or titanium minerals to help cut UVA exposures for sunscreen users. Overall Score 1 (Score between 0-2 is recommended by EWG):- Badger - Sunscreen Face Stick, SPF 30, Unscented
- Badger - Sunscreen for Face and Body, SPF 30 Lightly Scented
- Badger - Sunscreen for Face and Body, Unscented, SPF 30
- California Baby - Sunblock Stick No Fragrance, SPF 30+
- Loving Naturals - Sunscreen, SPF 30+
- Purple Prairie Botanicals - Sun Stick, SPF 30
- Purple Prairie Botanicals - SunStuff, SPF 30
- Soleo Organics - All Natural Sunscreen, SPF 30+
- Soleo Organics - All Natural Sunscreen, SPF 30+
- Soleo Organics - Wyland Organics All Natural Sunscreen, SPF 30+
- thinkbaby and thinksport - Sunscreen, SPF 30+
- UV Natural - Baby Sunscreen, SPF 30+
- UV Natural - Sunscreen Sport, SPF 30+
- All Terrain - Aquasport Performance Sunscreen, SPF 30
- All Terrain - KidSport Performance Sunscreen, SPF 30
- All Terrain - TerraSport Performance Sunscreen, SPF 30
- Badger - Sunscreen for Face and Body, SPF 15 Lightly Scented
- Beyond Coastal - Lip and Face Screen, SPF 30
- California Baby - Sunblock Stick Everyday/Year-Round, SPF 30+
- California Baby - Sunscreen Lotion Everyday/Year-Round, SPF 30+
- California Baby - Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance, SPF 30+
- California Baby - Sunscreen Lotion, SPF 30+, Citronella
- Caribbean Solutions - Natural/Biodegradable SolGuard, SPF 25
- Caribbean Solutions - Sol Kid Kare Natural Sunscreen, SPF 25
- Desert Essence - Age Reversal SPF 30 Mineral Sunscreen
- Episencial - Sunny Sunscreen, SPF 35
- Estion - Sunscreen with Zinc, SPF 38
- Jason Natural Cosmetics - Earth's Best: Sunblock Mineral Based, SPF 30+
- Jason Natural Cosmetics - Sunbrellas: Chemical Free Sunblock, SPF 30+
- Jason Natural Cosmetics - Sunbrellas: Mineral Based Physical Sunblock, SPF 30+
- Kabana Skin Care - Green Screen Organic Sunscreen Fragrance Free, SPF 20
- Kabana Skin Care - Green Screen Organic Sunscreen, SPF 22, Skin Tone Tinted
- L'uvalla Certified Organic - SPF 20 Sunscreen Face/Body
- La Roche-Posay - Anthelios 40 Sunscreen Cream
- Little Forest - Sunscreen Lotion For Babies and Kids, SPF 30+
- Miessence - Reflect Outdoor Balm, SPF 15
- Purple Prairie Botanicals - SunStuff, SPF 15
- Trukid - Sunny Days Face and Body Stick, SPF 30+
- UV Natural - Sunscreen, SPF 30+
- Vanicream - Sunscreen Sport, SPF 35
Can you depend on sunscreen?
The best sunscreen is a hat and a shirt (see the article Sun Safety Tips). The Food and Drug Administration’s 2007 draft sunscreen safety regulations say: “FDA is not aware of data demonstrating that sunscreen use alone helps prevent skin cancer” (FDA 2007). The International Agency for Research on Cancer agrees. IARC recommends clothing, hats and shade as primary barriers to UV radiation and writes that “sunscreens should not be the first choice for skin cancer prevention and should not be used as the sole agent for protection against the sun” (IARC 2001a).Products with high SPF ratings sell a false sense of security because most people using them stay out in the sun longer, still get burned (which increases risk of skin cancer) and subject their skin to large amounts of UVA radiation, the type of sunlight that does not burn but is believed responsible for considerable skin damage and cancer. High SPF products, which protect against sunburn, often provide very little protection against UVA radiation. According to EWG, few people use enough sunscreen to benefit from the SPF protection promised on the label. Studies show that people typically use about a quarter of the recommended amount.
Source: Few Sunscreens Win Green Rating (EWG.org)
Concerns about sunscreens: Oxybenzone and Vitamin A
- EWG recommends that consumers choose vitamin A-free sunscreens.
- EWG has again flagged products with oxybenzone.
None of the non-mineral sunscreens earned EWG's top rating this year because they contain at least one sunscreen chemical considered to be a potential hormone disruptor (like oxybenzone), and many offer only moderate or weak UVA protection.
Other articles related to sunscreens
- Natural Remedies for Sunburns: Tips on how to heal sun damaged skin with natural remedies.
- Sun Safety Tips: Sun safety tips to avoid sunburns and keep your skin safe.
- Sunburn Reliever: Sunburn soothing bath recipe very effective to relieve sunburned skin.
- Sunburn Remedy: Great sunburn remedy to soothe sunburned skin.
- Sun and Skin Damage: Is Nutrition Important for Sun Protection?
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