by Autumn Blum | Jul 23, 2021 | Keeping It Real
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...
by Autumn Blum | Jul 15, 2021 | Keeping It Real, Sunscreen
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...
by Autumn Blum | Jun 29, 2021 | Keeping It Real
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,...
by Stream2Sea | Jun 11, 2021 | Keeping It Real
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...
by Anya Elis | Apr 13, 2021 | Keeping It Real
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...
by Autumn Blum | Apr 8, 2021 | Keeping It Real
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...
by Autumn Blum | Mar 23, 2021 | Keeping It Real, Stream2Sea Products
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...
by Autumn Blum | Mar 12, 2021 | Keeping It Real, Sunscreen
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...
by Stream2Sea | Nov 18, 2020 | Keeping It Real
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,...
by Anya Elis | Nov 8, 2020 | Keeping It Real
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...
by Autumn Blum | Aug 13, 2020 | Keeping It Real
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,...
by Stream2Sea | Jul 23, 2020 | Keeping It Real
Mineral-based sunscreen is not a joke. It got a lot of laughs when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg over-applied that heavy-duty zinc oxide, but we still think it’s pretty cool. Even through the smiles, people pointed out that minerals like titanium dioxide and zinc...
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