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The Best Reef-Safe, Eco-Friendly Sunscreens
#1: Stream2Sea Sport Sunscreen BEST WATER-RESISTANT SUNCREEN
This brand earned the seal of approval from Downs and Haereticus. In short, you can feel good about dousing yourself with the water-resistant (up to 80 minutes), biodegradable, paraben-free broad spectrum sunblock before diving into the deep end of the ocean. The active ingredient is non-nano titanium dioxide while green tea, tulsi leaf, seaweed, aloe, and coconut oil make the Sport line less harsh on skin. Bonus points for using 100-percent recycled or recyclable packaging.
Top Five Reasons You Should Use Stream2Sea Sunscreen
Divers know our reefs are under threat, but you can help protect them (and yourself) every time you apply sunscreen by using Stream2Sea. Here are the top five reasons it should be your sunscreen go-to.
Good for You and the Blue – Products Protect Reef, Help Nonprofits
Stream2Sea Founder Autumn Blum summarizes it best. She said, “It is up to the passionate ocean advocate to educate locals and tourists to make better purchasing decisions. Making small changes in our daily lives, like avoiding single use plastics and using reef-safe sunscreens and biodegradable hair care products, are easy ways to help protect our local reefs.”
Stream2Sea Shifts Gears from Sunscreen to Hand Sanitizer
“It’s an amazing feeling being able to put out a great product that people need and perhaps save my company’s future at the same time,” she said.
Virgin Voyages Cruises with a Conscience
Our ocean reefs are in trouble, but we want to do our part to make a difference. As part of Virgin Voyages’ commitment to protecting our seas, we are proud to announce Stream2Sea as our preferred partner for reef-safe sunscreen.
Sunscreen Safety: Learn How to Protect Yourself and the Environment
Consumers who use sunscreen have both environmental and health questions about these products, especially as cities and states in the U.S. as well as Caribbean and Pacific destinations begin to either enact or consider sunscreen bans. An interview with Autumn Blum.
11 Reef-Safe Sunscreens We Love
From Ripple to Groundswell, Stream2Sea’s Making Waves of Change
Over the year since we last caught up with Stream2Sea, they’ve been struggling . . . to keep up with demand! It’s a problem that’s good to have because the more people are using eco-friendly products, the more our delicate environments are being protected. And boy are people using them!
We meet up with Stream2Sea’s ‘Mad Chemist.’
Blum and Nussbaum are somewhere between “local celebrities” and “hometown heroes,” having met on a dive boat of the now-defunct Scuba-Do Dive Company in Key Largo. Years later, in 2014, they would launch Stream2Sea together. “We’re Florida grown, Florida made, Key Largo launched,” says Blum.
Senate Panel Votes to Ban Sunscreens with Toxic Chemicals
A Senate committee voted Monday to forward a bill banning two chemicals found in many sunscreens after a panel of witnesses, including chemists and divers, testified that the compounds contribute to the deterioration of coral reefs and have been linked to harmful side effects in humans. Cosmetic chemist Autumn Blum testifies Monday before the Senate Committee on Government Operations, Consumers and Affairs, describing the toxic chemicals found in most sunscreens.
How to Know if Your Sunscreen is Killing Coral Reefs — and 11 Brands to Try Instead
The next time you take a dip in the warm waters of the Caribbean or Hawaii, think about this: you aren’t just swimming in seawater. There may also be as many as 82,000 kinds of chemicals from personal care products that have made their way into the world’s oceans, according to a report by Marine Life, a marine conservation NGO.
A Single Drop of Sunscreen Can Kill Coral
At last, coral reefs are finally getting some significant protection. Hawaii and Bonaire have just
banned sunscreens containing the sun-blocking
chemical oxybenzone. Furthermore, 13 United
Nations World Heritage sites have banned sunscreen use onsite
Stream 2 Sea Sunscreen
One reason that I love this brand so much is because they are very eco-conscious and have made sure to be very reef safe -and even use sugar cane resin tubes! Their ingredients list contains several certified organic ingredients like green tea, tulsi, wakame seaweed, olive, and aloe. SPF 30 is the only product I’ve used of theirs, and even though it’s 10 more than their 20 SPF I find that it gives a matte finish -so it’s not greasy in any way! For a natural sunscreen that’s biodegradable, 80 min. water resistant, aquatic safe, and a healthier option overall I must applaud Stream 2 Sea. I love them, and I highly recommend this company! I even used this as makeup all over my face and I don’t mind it at all!
What is a Real Reef-Safe Sunscreen
Environmental Conservation — SOURCES — The Journal of Underwater Education. First Quarter, 2019. The article on reef friendly sunscreen starts on Page 90.
News Channel 8 / wfla.com:
Eco-friendly sunscreens
Glamour:
Hawaii’s Sunscreen Ban Doesn’t Hit Until 2021, but the Reason for It Is Scary
Vogue:
Is Your Sunscreen Bad for the Planet? Here’s How to Choose an Ocean-Safe Formula
SELF Magazine – Why Hawaii Wants to Ban Oxybenzone Sunscreens
SELF Magazine recommends Steam2Sea as one of their choices for mineral-based sunscreen! “The world’s coral reefs are already in danger—and scientists worry that all the sunscreen in the oceans is making the situation worse. Fortunately, there are safer options… This titanium dioxide-based sunscreen is enriched with green tea and olive leaf.”
Conde Nast Traveler Looking for a reef safe sunscreen? Ask a surfer
Deeper Blue Read your sunscreen labels
Sources – NAUI Green Diver Initiative Eco-Conscious Divers Need to Choose Their Sunscreen Wisely
Vitamin Retailer: July 2016
Better Nutrition: Best of Natural Beauty Award Winner for 2016
Better Nutrition’s Best of Beauty pics cut through the maze of natural beauty and personal-care products on store shelves with their guide to get-gorgeous creams, serums, cleansers, scrubs, shampoos, eye shadows, and much more! “This is one smart sunscreen!”Scuba Diving International: Some “good” diving practices can be fatal to coral reefs
Country 102.5: Earth Day 2016 Part II
Alert Diver: Sunscreen Pollution
Scuba Diver Life: Top Four reef safe Sunscreens
BaySoundings: Eckerd students push limits on aquatic toxicity research
WFLA.com and News Channel 8: Eckerd College helps local company make sunscreen safe for marine life
Scuba Diver Life: Top Five Reasons You Should Use Stream2Sea
Cosmetic Design: Stream2Sea Sun Care Takes Safety Testing to the Extreme
83 Degrees Media: Eckerd College alum launches eco-friendly sunscreen, cosmetics line
Latest Press Releases
Stream2Sea Teams Up with Shark Allies to Educate Against Shark Oil in Cosmetics
Stream2Sea, which set the standard for reef-safe sunscreens, has become the first brand to officially join the Shark Allies’ Shark Free Products Campaign.
Recognizing that chemicals commonly found in sunscreens and personal care products can be dangerous in marine ecosystems, Turtle Island Restoration Network has partnered with Stream2Sea to develop an educational campaign for its members.
With oxybenzone (and other benzophenones) increasingly implicated in the decline of the most popular coral reefs as well as human health, Stream2Sea Founder Autumn Blum has been quoted as saying that “white is the new green.” The white, of course, is non-nano titanium dioxide, the only sunscreen ingredient proven to be safe for fish, C. elegans and coral larva.
The newest version of the award-winning sunscreen now features a natural tint made with coral-safe minerals that reduces the whitening effect of the original product…
When people on a boat or a beach learn that Stream2Sea sunscreen doesn’t harm fish or coral, they automatically ask to try some. “Even though our formulas are highly concentrated, when sharing with others, it’s easy to quickly go through one of our tubes,” says Autumn Blum, founder and chief formulator for the only company offering a mineral-based sunscreen that has been tested and proven safe on various species including coral larvae…
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