Based on an annual report that analyzed more than 2200 sunshine cracks, which can be purchased in 2025.
“Our criteria include the ability of active solar protection measures to ensure balanced UVA and UVB rays, as well as any dangerous chemical ingredients of the product,” said David Andrews, since 2007. Chief Director of Science, or EWG, a consumer organization that has been Produced the annual Sunscreen manager.
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“There are nearly 500 products that we recommend consumers to look for as their first options,” Andrews said. “We want people to wear sunscreen protective creams and at the same time admit that there are other ways to protect their skin-shade, wear broad-hated hats, lightweight long sleeves and trousers and cover their feet, are very effective ways, especially if you care about sun protection.”
According to some of the “Tikatok” influencers, choosing not to protect your skin from the sun, the idea that some influencers are encouraged should not be a way out, according to Dr. Kathleen Boose, a dermatological surgeon from Yale Medical School.
“Detailed studies have shown that sun UV radiation is a significant cause of skin cancer such as melanoma. It is certainly undisputed at this time,” CNN said in a previous interview. “UV radiation has both UVA and UVB, and we know that both of them damage DNA skin cells.”
Experts say that a safe protection against sunscreen includes the choice of sunscreen protection and its application. – Meeko Media/Iltockphoto/Getty Images
Concern for chemical sun creams
Sun protection creams are of two types, chemical and minerals. Chemical sunscreen products are designed to absorb into the skin because the chemical reaction absorbs ultraviolet radiation as energy and dispels it as heat.
Testing in the US Food and Drug Administration 2019 Seven chemical ingredients released – avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene, Ecamsule, homosealat, octisalate and octinoxate – were absorbed from skin to blood.
The concentration of seven chemicals in the blood increased every day after lubrication and remained above the FDA safety level. Two of the chemicals – homosalat and oxidbenzone – were still over 21 days over the sill of safety.
Once in the bloodstream, these chemicals can enter water roads through sewage, threatening coral reefs and water life. Due to the growing devastation of their coral reefs in Hawaii; Key West, Florida; US Virgin Islands; Bonnaire; Aruba; And Palau, the Pacific Island, banned the use of several chemical sunscreen, especially oxyibenzone.
Oksybenzone was also associated with lower testosterone in teenage boys, male hormone changes and shorter pregnancy and disrupted baby birth weight.
However, EWG 2025 The Sun leader has dramatically reduced the use of oxybenzone. Once, 70% of non -sunscreen minerals, Oxybenzone is now only 9% of products, Andrews said.
The Board of Personal Supervisory Products, representing sunscreen manufacturers, disagreed with the reports of the report.
“This report causes consumers’ confusion and is a serious risk by hurting public confidence in products that are scientifically proven, strictly checked and very effective to protect against harmful UV radiation,” Alexandra Kowcz, chief scientist and executive vice president of the PCPC, said in the letter.
Safety of mineral creams
Mineral solar creams work differently. Instead of absorbed into the skin, minerals physically guide and block sunlight. Zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are two Ingredients of Sunrot Creams Protected by FDA confirmed, and do not seem to be harmful to marine ecosystems, Andrews said.
“Of the 2217 products we have tried this year’s report, 43% use zinc oxide or titanium dioxide compared to just 17% in 2007,” Andrew said. “This is good news for consumers and the environment.”
However, some mineral products may contain chemical “amplifiers” to artificially increase sunscreen (SPF), the report said.
“With chemical amplifiers, consumer safety costs can be less concentration of active mineral ingredients,” Andrews said. “We want to ensure that these sunscreen are protected by SPF advertised on their labels, as well as a balanced UVA and UVB protection.
Some of these amplifiers, such as the solvent in Butyloctyl salicylate or bos, absorb UV rays similar to chemical protection creams, Andrews said.
“However, they are first sold as solvents that improve how the product feels on the skin and reduces white castings that can be left by minerals,” he said.
“The bosses are structurally similar to an ocutisalate, one of the 12 ingredients of sunscreen, which the FDA found more safety data,” Andrews added. “However, the BOS is not regulated as the active ingredient and has not been performed by the same level of security.”
EWG first raised concerns about SPF amplifiers in 2016. August In a letter to the then FDA commissioner Robert Califf, calling for the agency to investigate “the ingredients of solar protection measures that can allow manufacturers to promote higher SPF values for their over -the -counter sunscreens.”
The agency should also investigate any correlation “between red, immunosuppression, long-term skin damage and cancer,” the letter said. So far, the FDA has not taken any action, Andrews said.
Additional consumer protection still offered by FDA
The FDA proposed an updated Sun Protection Rules for 2019. The industry was asked to provide additional tests with 12 sunscreen chemicals, including seven, which were shown by the FDA tests, easily absorbed into the bloodstream. It still needs to be done, said Andrews.
The FDA proposal also asked manufacturers to test the spray sunscreen products to prove that the aerosolized chemicals could not be inspired in the deep lungs – this test did not happen either, he said.
“When the FDA tested aerosol cosmetics a few years ago, they found that some products had very small particle sizes that could be inhaled in deep lungs and cause potential health damage,” Andrews said. “The same concern is valid for sunbathing protective creams.”
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the inhalation of such particles can cause serious health effects on people with the highest risk, such as “people with heart or lung disease, diabetes, older adults and children (under 18).
However, sunscreen protection products remain popular among consumers – 26% of the sunscreen tested for sunscreen – despite the potential risk of inspiration and difficulties associated with smooth and properly covering the spray, Andrews said.
“The Australian study found that even in the light of the breeze, say, 6 to 10 miles of an hour, a significant part of the aerosol just blossomed,” he said. “Last weekend I was in a football game, and when someone sprayed the sunscreen, I felt he was moving throughout the field. I am not sure they were experiencing any sun protection measures.”
2019 In the proposal, the FDA also urged the top of the 60 SPF at the top of the Sunscreen products, saying that any benefit over 60 is extremely small. As a result, the FDA said that the Sun marking at the level of SPFs above 60 may be misleading users, providing a false sense of sunscreen. This has not been done, and consumers continue to spend money on these products, Andrews said.
“One of the main users’ purchase engines is the highest possible number of SPF,” he said. “Consumers do not know that higher SPF values do not provide clear benefits.”
CNN appealed to the Department of Health and Human Services, which supervises the FDA to comment, but did not hear before the publication.
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