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Serious Skincare for Serious Adventure
While there are many mineral sunscreens that offer UVA/UVB protection, very few go deeper to address and counteract the long-term damaging effects caused by free radicals and overexposure to the sun. Sunburns are caused by a complex chemical reaction that creates free...
Does Your Sunscreen Provide Long-Term Protection?
Remember that really nasty sunburn you got as a kid? You turned red as a beet, then everything peeled off in really disgusting layers. Believe it or not, that awful experience probably wasn’t the worst damage the sunburn caused to your body. Scientists still don’t...
Who Knew Dolphins Could Get Sunburned?!
Tribute to Winter the Dolphin As long-time supporters of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, my wife and I were deeply saddened by the untimely death of Winter, the dolphin who won hearts around the world wearing a prosthetic that helped her swim. At the same time,...
The Truth About Reef Safe Sunscreens
Sunscreen is probably on your list as you plan your fall excursions – and hopefully you’re looking for a product that is “reef safe.” (If not, check out the report from the International Coral Reef Initiative.) But just because the front of the bottle might say it is...
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...
Protect What You Love, and We Love Sea Turtles!
Ahhhh, remember the ‘80s? I remember sitting by my giant stereo, in my neon pink windbreaker with velvet scrunchies in my hair, waiting for my favorite songs to come on the radio so I could record them on tape at the exact right time. I had to make a mix tape for my...
Small Green Manufacturers are Being Squeezed by the CHFA and FDA
There is an emerging battle between small green businesses selling sunscreens and other OTC drugs and the giant companiesthat would rather we not exist. Our friends at Pacific Beach Organics are putting together a campaign to highlight this injustice, made possible by...
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...
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...
