# Sunscreen Safety Claims: FDA Findings, Oxybenzone and Melanoma

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117661564333384053
- Source account: [@Fa21519230](https://x.com/Fa21519230)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:06
- Published: 2026-11-03
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ZiH3TKerBDo5/en/sunscreen-safety-claims-fda-findings-oxybenzone-and-melanoma

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ZiH3TKerBDo5/en/sunscreen-safety-claims-fda-findings-oxybenzone-and-melanoma) Don't use sunscreens. Still, millions of people use sunscreens, so somebody's not listening.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ZiH3TKerBDo5/en/sunscreen-safety-claims-fda-findings-oxybenzone-and-melanoma?t=7) They even slab the sunscreen on their children.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ZiH3TKerBDo5/en/sunscreen-safety-claims-fda-findings-oxybenzone-and-melanoma?t=11) In May of two thousand and nineteen, the FDA issued a report saying that sunscreen chemicals, when used just one day, penetrated the bloodstream, reaching levels that exceeded FDA standards.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ZiH3TKerBDo5/en/sunscreen-safety-claims-fda-findings-oxybenzone-and-melanoma?t=26) One ingredient, oxybenzone, reached that level exceeding the standards after only two hours of use.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ZiH3TKerBDo5/en/sunscreen-safety-claims-fda-findings-oxybenzone-and-melanoma?t=34) This is not good. These chemicals change your complex metabolic machinery, they put a load on your liver and your kidneys, and they make you sick.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ZiH3TKerBDo5/en/sunscreen-safety-claims-fda-findings-oxybenzone-and-melanoma?t=44) The more sunscreen we use, the more skin cancer we get.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ZiH3TKerBDo5/en/sunscreen-safety-claims-fda-findings-oxybenzone-and-melanoma?t=50) Do you suppose there may be a cause-and-effect relationship?

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ZiH3TKerBDo5/en/sunscreen-safety-claims-fda-findings-oxybenzone-and-melanoma?t=53) The sales of sunscreens have gone up by thirty-eight times in the last thirty years. Meanwhile, the incidence of the most dangerous kind of skin cancer, melanoma, has doubled since nineteen eighty-two