PSA: Sunscreen

[whispercricket]

There have been news stories lately about sunblock ratings and how they need to change (for example: current UVA protection claims on packaging mean nothing).

The Environmental Working Group has published a Sunscreen Summary rating a large number of sunscreens on both sun hazard (e.g. how effective they are against UVA / UVA) and health hazard (based on certain chemicals - they break down the ingredients in detail in case you don't care about fragrance, etc.).

naturalliving has a nice short list of some of the more affordable good ones and links to where they can be bought, saving a lot of research time.

ETA: Note that some of these sunscreens may contain nanoparticles, which have a bit of controversy surrounding them that I haven't researched yet to my satisfaction.

This information actually comes at a good time for me - I was wondering if I should buy some of that Anthelios stuff they have by the counter at CVS, even though it's pretty expensive. Now I think I'll buy something else (and if anyone else is interested / wants to go in on an order somewhere, let me know, although I'm not quite sure what I want yet).

Also, if you use cosmetics or...well, soap...you might be interested in the rest of the Environmental Working Group's cosmetics database.

And maybe I'll make a personal post at some point...or maybe I won't...

Comments

[sonata960.livejournal.com]

Useful post, thanks. We've been using JASON for Miss C, and it seems good. Also, California Baby (though interesting that it's not quite as good).

[keshwyn]

Well, shoot.

My soap is apparently a Bad Soap. :/ That's frustrating because the thing I like about it the most is apparently the thing that's worst about it - namely, the smell.

I shall have to find a new orange soap. But thanks for the warning!

[paladin-of-gaia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting the info.

[autumnesquirrel.livejournal.com]

I remembered this post and came back to find it because I need to buy some new sunscreen. I'm now off to do research!