Journal — sunscreen

The recent debate sparked by anti-sunscreen influencers has highlighted an important public health message: sunscreen saves lives. But we think one critical part of the conversation has been left out. People are being told they have two choices – trust chemical sunscreens or don’t wear sunscreen at all. That’s simply not true. There is another option: mineral sunscreens made with zinc oxide.

It’s been a big year for sunscreen, and not necessarily in a good way. A wave of headlines has spotlighted numerous sunscreens being pulled from shelves after independent labs couldn’t replicate their SPF claims. We’ve got some reassuring news: our Everyday Easy Glide SPF 50 Mineral Sunscreen has been re-tested, and it passed with flying colours.  

As winter is now here, we feel it is super important to educate our community on the importance of wearing sunscreen while Skiing, snowboarding, and in general hanging out in the snow for winter.

There are a lot of sunscreen tubes out there being passed around, some are moving to plastic that can be recycled, and that's great. If you are unsure if your tube can be recycled, just look for the recycle symbol and number, if it is a number 2 (HDPE) you can put it into the kerbside recycling. Keep in mind though it's pretty hard to clean inside a tube ready for recycling, which must get you thinking, will this actually be recycled? And then there are the lids, most lids can not be recycled and off they go into landfill..