Q: Isn’t spray sunscreen a health and environmental nightmare when it seems that more of the sunscreen ends up going up my nose than on the kid at the beach next to me? Spray cans of sunscreen may no longer contain chlorofluorocarbons (also known as CFCs, which were phased out in the 1990s for causing [...]
It’s that time again — time for the annual EWG 2011 Sunscreen Guide to the safest and most effective sunscreens for the year. Each year I do a quick post to let you guys know when the list is available, and this year’s list includes more than 1,700 sunscreens, sunblocks, lip balms and moisturizers, and [...]
It may be. Did you know that the Food and Drug Administration’s 2007 sunscreen safety regulations say that the “FDA is not aware of data demonstrating that sunscreen use alone helps prevent skin cancer”? Me neither! While every major public health agency still advises people to use sunscreen, there is now an increased importance being [...]
EWG, a reference I use all the time for finding out product toxicity, has released their annual guide to sunscreens just in time for summer. They cover 1,400 sunscreens, lip balms and moisturizers and tell you what you need to know to find safe and effective sunscreens. I use this list every year to buy [...]
It’s that time of year in case you haven’t noticed – sunscreen season! More than 1,000,000 new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in the U.S. every year with incidences of melanoma, the most dangerous one, rapidly increasing. I had a melanoma cancer removed from my leg last year, so I know first-hand just how [...]
Today I am heading down the hill to see a dermatologist, as right after we arrived here in New Mexico my guy back in California called and told me that a mole I had removed was, in fact, melanoma. He says that it was early enough and shallow enough that they probably got everything, but [...]
