In 2021, the FDA found that ONLY two ingredients in sunscreen, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, could be classified as safe and effective 🫠


Twelve other ingredients were proposed as NOT generally recognized as safe and effective due to insufficient data: avobenzone, cinoxate, dioxybenzone, ensulizole, homosalate, meradimate, octinoxate, octisalate, octocrylene, oxybenzone, padimate O, and sulisobenzone.


Two of them in particular (oxybenzone and homosalate) are not safe in the amounts at which they’re currently used, according to the European Commission's 2021 report. It proposed limiting concentration to 2.2 percent for oxybenzone and 1.4 percent for homosalate.


And the crazy part is, U.S. sunscreen manufacturers are legally allowed to use these two chemicals at concentrations up to 6 and 15 percent, respectively 🤯


What's worse, according to studies published by the FDA themselves, the ingredients oxybenzone, octinoxate, octisalate, octocrylene, homosalate and avobenzone are all systemically absorbed into the body after just ONE use. The agency also found they could be detected on the skin and in the blood WEEKS after they had last been used ☠️


Other studies have reported finding sunscreen ingredients in breast milk, urine, and blood plasma samples…


If you are going to use sunscreen, use these:


– Physical sunscreen (shirt, shade, hat, etc.)
– Mineral-based sunscreen (non-nano zinc oxide)
– Tallow-based sunscreen

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