Today I’m going over which sunscreen ingredients to avoid, and which are shown to be safe. I also talk about SPF considerations, and some strategies for avoiding UV exposure that no one seems to be talking about.
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Sunscreens I Recommend:
- Anti-aging, mineral-based SPF face moisturizer
- Sheer mineral face sunscreen
- Sheer water-resistant mineral body sunscreen stick
Ingredient breakdown:
The two sunscreen ingredients that have been banned from US sunscreens and that you definitely shouldn’t use:
- Aminobenzoic acid (PABA)
- Trolamine salicylate
The potentially dangerous ingredients are below (not enough data to know for sure yet, but it’s not looking good—see the video). Note that there are NO non-mineral sunscreens that contain ingredients that we know are safe. So ALL non-mineral sunscreens fall into the “unknown” (or “definitely dangerous”) categories.
- Avobenzone
- Cinoxate
- Dioxybenzone
- Homosalate
- Meradimate
- Octinoxate (aka octyl methoxycinnamate or ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate)
- Octisalate
- Octylsalicylate
- Octocrylene
- Oxybenzone
- Padimate O
- Sulizole
- Sulisobenzone
Here is a very useful US government (NIH) page that will (presumably) stay updated as studies come out on the risks of the different ingredients: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/topics/uvfilters
The safe ingredients (when sunscreen is NOT a spray kind):
- Zinc oxide
- Titanium dioxide
Study links mentioned in the video:
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- Key study links:
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2759002
- https://www.fda.gov/media/124655/download
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0190962212002605
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2605.2012.01280.x
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8550398/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30444533/
- https://europepmc.org/article/med/23652948
- (you can find the other auxiliary study links by searching the titles that are shown in the video)
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