Summer is HERE (1)

Finally it’s June again… we are all in summer holidays mood…

While you might now are busy with holidays preparation, don’t forget to take sunscreen with you this summer vacation. Frequently asked question related to sunscreen is about SPF. How much SPF do we need? Is it the higher the better? Then, what kind of active ingredients that are safe and effective for sunscreen?

So, here is some guideline for choosing sunscreen:

It is unnecessary to use SPF100 – I saw some available in the market! According to SkinCancer Org, SPF 15 filters out approximately 93 percent of all incoming UVB rays. SPF 30 keeps out 97 percent and SPF 50 keeps out 98 percent. Even though FDA finally failed to ban sunscreen products with SPF higher than 50, please remember that SPF 100 is useless. Such products with SPF100 may have greater risk to health due its chemical ingredients. All sunscreen products need to reapply after 2 hours anyway!

Choose sunscreen with low toxicity ingredients. Referring to EWG Guide for Safe Sunscreen, here are the low toxicity ingredients of sunscreen: titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, avobenzone. And don’t ever buy sunscreen with insect repellent – it’s super toxic for combining sunscreens and repellents leads to increased skin absorption of the repellent ingredients.

 Do not buy sunscreen contains retinyl palmitate (Vitamin A). While retinyl palmitate is a good ingredient for anti-aging, on sun-exposed skin, retinyl palmitate may speed development of skin tumors and lesions.

So, here is my sunscreen for this summer vacation!!!

It contains zinc oxide with no Vitamin A, non greasy with SPF15, and it can be used for face and body. Interested to try?