When most people think of sun exposure, they think of tropical vacations or summertime fun in the sun. A better and safer way to think about sun exposure is not in terms of the activity we are doing or the time of the year but in terms of the kind of sun exposure – intense and incidental. Continue reading “Intense and Incidental – The two kinds of sun exposure”
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The Trouble With Oxybenzone and Other Sunscreen Chemicals
Slop it on and reapply after every two hours. That is what millions of Sunscreen users have been told. But did you know that the chemical ingredient, Oxybenzone also known as Benzophenone-3, that enables Sunscreen to stay on your skin is actually absorbed into your body and can be found and measured in your blood, breast milk, and urine?
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