SPF Sunscreen and Sun Safety
With skin cancer on the rise, many people are purchasing SPF sunscreens to protect their skin from harmful UV rays. But is the SPF sunscreen you’re purchasing actually safe? The ingredients in SPF sunscreens enhance the absorption into the skin so it can withstand powerful UV rays without losing their effectiveness. This has flagged SPF sunscreens as potentially harmful because they were detected in the blood stream, urine samples, and breast milk. Specifically, the ingredient oxybenzone, where attention has focused on it being a hormone disruptor.
