Sunscreen: Still Shady

Mother Jones:

July 4th weekend beach time is upon us, and the FDA still hasn't finalized its rules about what sunscreen manufacturers can claim on sunscreen labels. The new regulations were proposed back in 2007, and two years later, they still haven't been published. That means sunscreen manufacturers are still getting away with exaggerated claims.

Read the whole story: Mother Jones

Comments

[ddanimal]

Sunscreens are a scam. The only one worth using is zinc oxide.

I hardly ever use sunscreens. The best way to protect from the sun is to take a cocktail of antioxidants: grape seed extract, turmeric extract, vitamin C, E complex, CoQ10, quercetin, green tea extract, milk thistle extract, R lipoic acid etc. Combine all this stuff in sufficient doses and you wont get burned. Even while surfing in midday sun in Costa Rica. It really works. It protects your eyes, too, which sunscreens wont. Also provides many other health benefits, instead of causing cancer, like sunscreen chemicals do.

[Erdgeist]

From a health standpoint sun blockers are tres dangerous. They prevent our body from producing vitamin D3. Without vitamin D3 you can expect lower respiratory infections such as colds and flus, cancers, and a host of other diseases (lack of D3 may even cause autism). Expose yourself to direct sun in a bathing suit for about 30 minutes, then cover up. This will insure that you will produce at least 20'000 to 30'000 IUs of D3. In addition supplement with vitamin D3 orally or with cream (about 2,000 IUs a day).

[ddanimal]

Yup. Vitamin D is CRITICAL for good health. I sunbath all the time in the summer, with no sunscreen.

Dermatologists have killed millions with their nonsensical sun phobia.

[FormerReaganite]

Why the obsession with deep suntans anyway? Sun-tanned skin is damaged skin, any dermatologist will advise.

[ddanimal]

Dermatologists are wrong and they are the reason why about 80% of people are deficient in vitamin D.

Sun phobia kills millions with cancer, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune diseases diabetes etc. Vitamin D protects against all these diseases and the best source is UVB-the most "damaging" sun rays.

[Pupadup4oBama]

my husband and i were talking about this very topic the other day. I read some where that for a family of four for a day at the beach, they need to use 3/4 of a bottle. Bottles cost about 10-15 bucks at the store. If sunscreen is THAT important, it should be available in bulk.

[vippy]

Sunblocks are bad for you. If you have a healthy immune system I found out you don't even get a sun burn. I never used creams or lotions, love the tan, and at 65 I have no wrinkles nor any other health
issue. We need the Vitamin D the sun offers.

[Pupadup4oBama]

I think I might agree with you on this.

[toobusy]

Tell that to my 9 year old son who is so fairskinned he gets freckles and pink cheeks in April in WI. He would blister from the sun if I didn't sunscreen him up daily.

[ddanimal]

He is deficient in antioxidants.

[CrazedSurfer]

Try surfing in Costa Rica for 4 or 5 hours with no sun block. You'd be one fried bro.

Down there I put on the thick white stuff and still come in Krispy.

[ddanimal]

I have been there and done that with no sun block except on my face. And I'm white. I use a cocktail of antioxidants-vitamin C, e complex, grape seed extract, R lipoic acid etc etc.

[rich misty]

Where I am at in the desert, the sun does not burn my skin, it strips it off unless I am completely covered or I am wearing sunblock. Reflected sun from the ground burns my lips even with a brimmed hat, so a lip protectant with sun block is always required outside.

[ddanimal]

Take antioxidants-vitamin C, e complex, R lipoic acid, grape seed, curcumin, quercetin, etc etc.

[inthefog]

I'm sorry, I just can't let this go, that statement is so wrong in so many ways. Vitamin D is necessary, but you can in no way base your statement that if you sunburn you must have a bad immune system on any science.

If one's skin composition is genetically best suited for life in a foggy peat bog, one burns in the sun. Period. Glad that you have no wrinkles and love to tan. That was a very patronizing statement, superior in tone, and based on nothing.

[ddanimal]

Wrong. Sunburns are a symptom of antioxidant deficiency. I'm not saying thay antioxidants will protect the whitest people in the most extreme sun conditiions, but for most, antioxidants help a great deal and often make sunblocks totally unnecessary.

[fcsakes]

Couldn't get Motherjones to load, try Environmental Working Group, www.ewg.org, they have a full report on sunblock (and lots of other stuff consumers might want to know) and they don't take advertising either. They do have links to Amazon because Amazon contributes part of their income to ewg. (Amazon is pretty much the cheapest place to get good sunscreen - as a person who uses gallons of it, I know).

Well, maybe not gallons, maybe just pints.

[walleymr]

thanks for the link! but, unless you type it in directly, rather than click it, it doesn't take you to the site

[Vieweraudience]

Our government at work. No animals were harmed in the making of this incompetence, just people.

[dadw5boys]

Where was this pic taken is the big questions.

Men everywhere want to know.

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[ljc]

My guess is they got from Fox News soft porn file cabinet. Why are there no men in that pix. Are men immune to sun burn? Ha!

[darker]

can't be trusted? ? ?
those sunscreens must be MADE BY REPUBLICANS.

[wordvarc]

Nice picture. High heels work great on sandy beaches.

[sparkey]

High heels? Didn't notice and had to re-look at the picture. My eyes were a little higher up. Wait a minute, this picture wasn't posed, was it, like something out of stock footage?