Concerns Over Sunscreen Chemicals

But now some new research has people a little frightened to use it.

There's a new study out that says after just one day,

chemicals in sunscreens enter your bloodstream.

Before you grab that bottle of sunscreen,

the first thing you need to do is check the ingredients on the back.

They are chemicals and they can potentially be dangerous.

Look at any bottle of sunscreen on the store shelf

and it'll more than likely have one of these ingredients.

Avobenzone and oxybenzone are very commonly in your chemical sunscreens.

But a new study finds when you apply sunscreen with those chemicals,

along with two other ones known as escamsole and octocraylene,

they can absorb into your skin and into your bloodstream.

And more than 80%, 80% of the sunscreen products sold in the USA were now considered potentially unsafe for

use. We need to protect our skin,

but risking things like hormone disruption, skin allergies, even cancer.

On the other side, you have mineral sunscreens.

And the mineral sunscreens have zinc oxide or some other mineral.

And what happens is it reflects the light off of your body.

So it's almost like putting a barrier on your skin. The

sun's rays hit and then they bounce off.

So just from a health standpoint,

that's obviously intuitively, yes, they're much healthier than the chemicals.