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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2020 has been a lot of things, hard and uncomfortable decisions, tragic losses and people grappling with what comes next. This Small Business Saturday, I’d like to highlight the issues facing small business about what this means to the decision makers, the customers,...
It was always my dream to live on a sailboat, and that dream came true almost 3 years ago. My husband and I gave up our dive shop in Key Largo, bought a sailboat, gave away pretty much everything we owned, and moved onto the boat full time with our two black cats we...
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