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Protect Your Skin--and the Planet

Green Life
Published July 3, 2008

You know it’s smart to wear sunscreen, but why hurt the earth while saving your skin? Sunscreens can damage the environment with chemicals that take ages to break down and end up bleaching coral reefs (a couple of nasties: the UV inhibitors 4-methylbenzylidene camphor and octocrylene). Many also contain a raft of harmful ingredients that don’t add anything in the skin-protection department. Fortunately, an increasing number of products address at least one, if not both, of these problems. The Environmental Working Group has put together a special report on sunscreens. After investigating nearly 1,000 products, the organization scored them on a scale from zero (no hazard) to ten (high hazard) based on performance in categories like ecological and reproductive toxicity. Filled with ingredients like avocado and olive oil, only these four clocked in with no strikes against them... Click here to read this post.
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