The First Country to Ban Reef-Toxic Sunscreens Selects Stream2Sea for Palau Pledge Campaign
Stream2Sea’s proven safe for you and our waters sunscreen is chosen by Palau for aco-branded sunscreen line to help raise awareness and funds to protect the nations’ fragileecosystems Palau has had a special place in my heart since my first visit in 2014. Stream2Sea...
Why Small Sunscreen Businesses Are Paying the Biggest Price with New FDA Regulations
A new rule announced earlier this year by the Food and Drug Administration will drive up the costs for many small sunscreen companies. Specifically, rising regulatory fees may actually reduce consumer choice and inhibit green innovation in the market. The new ruling...
Benzene-Free Sunscreen
Would you like your sunscreen with a side of benzene? No, thank you! Stream2Sea was the first (and is still the only) company to provide extensive testing to prove our sunscreen is truly reef safe. Now we’re the first sunscreen manufacturer to show that we are...
Sunscreens and Benzene Contamination: Safe for YOU and Safe for our Waters… Safe for You is first
Do you know where your sunscreen in manufactured? Is it in a large production facility that uses economies of scale to manufacture hundreds – or thousands – of other products? Contaminants are common in large scale productions When Stream2Sea was...
Shark Week: Shark-free Squalane & Scavenger Hunt
Why We Love and Need Sharks! Sharks play an important role in multiple key challenges we are facing on planet Earth: Addressing food securityProtecting biodiversityEnsuring sustainable economiesClimate change In the ecosystem, sharks play an critical role as apex...
NAS Sunscreen Study: From our Reef-safe and Human-safe Perspective
I was recently honored with an invitation to speak to a National Academy of Sciences subcommittee looking at the environmental impact of sunscreens. It’s a months-long investigation that brings people from the industry, dermatologists, and environmentalists together...
Another Oxybenzone Report Shows Danger to Pregnant Women
The science is clear: Oxybenzone kills coral larva at incredibly low concentrations. But until now, it’s been less clear what happens in the human body at exposures similar to those seen at your average beach or swimming pool. Turns out, it’s not pretty. A study...
Why is everybody asking for our Leave-In-Conditioner?
We received a really nice note from a travel writer last week saying that 70% of the comments on a women’s dive site recommended our Stream2Sea leave-in conditioner. She asked what made it so special — beyond the fact that it’s reef-safe. Like many female...
Common sunscreen ingredient Octocrylene degrades to easily absorbed carcinogen
A new report in a study published in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology by French and American researchers at Sorbonne University and Haereticus Environmental Laboratory shows that Octocrylene – one of the most common ingredients in sunscreens breaks...
Green-washing is Still Rampant!
It’s never been more important to be an informed consumer! Sharks are in skincare, and consumers CANNOT trust the words on the front of a hand sanitizer or cosmetic package. Yesterday, I did my first Instagram live event for our friends at Shark Allies,...
Re: FDA Recall of Dangerous Sanitizer
A letter from our Founder Re: FDA recall of contaminated sanitizer Dear Friends of Stream2Sea: The FDA has issued a mandatory recall of substandard and dangerous hand sanitizers. I wanted to reassure you that our products are NOT subject to this recall. When COVID...
