Sunscreen

This information is derived from the website www.ewg.org.  Please take the time to visit the site and get your products ratings.  Our skin absorbs toxins and particles from our products and the environment.  Doing every bit we can to keep toxins out of the body aides in our wellness journey.

This summer when buying your sunscreen please be careful of some of these red and yellow light ingredients.

·      Oxybenzone

·      Octinoxate

·      BHT

·      Retinyl Palitate

·      Homosalate

·      Peg-8

·      Peg-100

The other important factor you want to consider is the Nano size.  Some products are beginning to label non-Nano zinc oxide in place of just zinc oxide.  You want to look for non-Nano.  Nano particles are more easily absorbed into the skin and that’s when you start to get toxicity in the body, which leads to endocrine disruption.  Yes, your sunscreen affects you on a cellular level!  If you are second-guessing me, Doctor Oz has said it too.

There are plenty of highly rated sunscreens on the market.  But I highly recommend visiting the website, www.ewg.org.  Products such as Neutrogena that have the Cancer Foundation seals on the bottle and the words “Dermatologist Recommended” have received red light (not good) ratings.  When investigating I also found that although one product from a company may get a red light rating, they have other products that have gotten yellow and green light ratings. 

Please take the time to check your sunscreen rating.  For the next three months we are going to be putting sunscreen on (into) our bodies several times a day.  Be informed and read carefully.

Love deeply, eat mindfully and lather up wisely,

Kim Gilroy