Naturally Beautiful Sunscreen Should Protect Your Skin Without Adding To Your Toxin Load
If you want naturally beautiful skin, you need to take care of it… and one of the most important steps in protection against skin cancer and aging… is sunscreen. Because sunscreen is such a key step… it is very important to take care to select a product that is safe on your skin.
Our skin is our largest organ and everything that goes on our skin, is absorbed to some degree into our bodies. This summer consider committing to using safe sunscreens.
Safer Sunscreen Options
PND Naturally Beautiful Safer Sunscreen Options
- All Terrain: Aquasport Performance Sunscreen SPF 30
- Badger: Sunscreen, Unscented SPF 30 +
- Jason Natural Cosmetics Sunbrellas: Mineral Based Physical Sunblock SPF 30+
- Earth’s Best Sunblock, Mineral Based SPF 30 +
- All California Baby Sunscreens
- Episencial Sunny Sunscreen SPF 35
- If you find yourself with no safe natural labels – Coppertone WaterBabies Pure & Simple – SPF 50 – oil, fragrance & dye free – is a safer formulation. Note – a simple change in SPF could result in the product being moved into PND unsafe territory.
PND Naturally Beautiful Safer Sunscreen – Spray Options
Know you’ll be at the beach with no one to get your back… ? A spray might be your only option. Our safest Sunscreen Spray picks:
- Kinesys Alcohol-Free Performance Sunscreen Spray with Parsol 1789, Fragrance Free, SPF 30
- All Terrain Aquasport Spray SPF 15
Naturally Beautiful Sunscreen Shopping Pointers
Look for at least 7% zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. This will ensure UVA & UVB protection.
Naturally Beautiful Shoppers Avoid:
- Spray and Powder Sunscreen
- Vitamin A additive, retinyl palmitate – according to the FDA this additive has been deemed a likely photocarcinogen.
- Sunscreen insect repellent combo – pesticides absorbing into your body
- Ingredients; Oxybenzone or benzophenone-3, skin absorption, allergies, hormone problems
- Proceed with caution or avoid these brands; Coppertone, Banana Boat and Most Neutrogena
Naturally Beautiful Note – be prepared when switching to safer sunscreens you are going to move into products that are going to be thicker, whiter and slower to absorb that other sunscreen choices. This is because they rely on a high concentration of zinc oxide or titanium dioxide to block the suns rays.
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I will be using Purple Prairie’s Sun Stuff–an artisan product made in Minnesota using zinc oxide (disclaimer: I sell this–cause I love it!)
Thank you for the informative article. It’s so important to know what we are slathering on our skin! Try to avoid harsh chemicals at any cost!