How to Score an A With Your Sunscreen
When you pick a sunscreen, you are considering many factors not just: feel, scent, effectiveness, price, shelf life, but it should work with your skin and lifestyle (think getting wet, being in the snow, or just sitting in front of blue light all day). We also advocate the 4 “A’s” of sunscreen to consider:
Allergies, Acne, Aeration (oxygen into your skin), and Anti-aging
Now we can add ADVANTAGEOUS (to the environment), incorporating the principal of safety of both to you, as well as to the environment!
Shockingly it has come out that some sunscreens have the chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate deemed dangerous to the coral reef and other marine life, and these chemicals are actually in over 3500 sunscreen products!
OXYBENZONE- or- BENZOPHENONE are also found nail polish, fragrances, hairspray, and cosmetics to help these products be stable in light. Physicians also some concern that oxybenzone has both hormonal and photo-allergenic effects.
OCTINOXATEis also fairly ubiquitous and found in shampoo, lip balm, skin creams, hair color, and lipstick. If you see “long-lasting” on a cosmetic brands it’s often stabilized by octinoxate, so not as healthy for you as pure mineral make ups like Jane Iredale.
At our practice we sell SkinCeutical Sunscreens that do not have either of these ingredients, so that we meet 5 of the Hada “A’s” for sunscreen. come in for a consultation to determine which is the best for you!
