What You Should Know About Sunscreen Effectiveness
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More and more of us are using sunscreens to protect skin from sunburn signs of early aging and some kinds of skin cancer. But what do we know about sunscreen effectiveness?
When you’re shopping for that sun protection product this summer look beyond the package and the claims on the label… make sure you know exactly what you’re buying.
According to a report known as the Environmental Working Group EWG 2009 Sunscreen Guide three of five brand names either don’t offer sufficient protection to skin from sun damage or contain hazardous chemicals.
Sometimes both come together in one handy little package according to the just released report by the EWG a self-proclaimed watchdog organization.
Critics say the report makes some valid points but also carries a more alarmist tone than might be strictly necessary.
The report looked at 1599 sunscreens lip balms and moisturizers with an SPF (Sunburn Protection Factor) of at least 15. This is often the minimum recommended though you can buy products with lower (and higher) SPF numbers.
The researchers obtained a list of ingredients from retailers and used lots of databases to look at the safety and effectiveness of each product’s ingredients.
This year’s study like the one in 2008 was prompted because the FDA has yet to set safety standards for sunscreens… at least when it comes to UVA protection UVB labels already exist.
It’s UVA rays that are associated with skin wrinkles and sagging but also with skin cancer. UVB rays lead to sunburn and skin cancer.
The group also isn’t happy that the FDA has approved only 17 chemicals for use in sunscreens yet there are at least 29 used in other parts of the world.
The EWG report makes plain the belief that the agency is lagging behind other countries. Other experts who reviewed the report for online resource WebMD agree that drawing attention to snail’s pace of the FDA on this issue is a good idea.
“The most important thing they highlight is that the FDA is really lagging behind in getting a UVA rating” agrees Eric Schweiger MD a Manhattan dermatologist and clinical instructor of dermatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
He recommends that patients use as high an SPF as possible when it comes to sun protection since he believes most people don’t apply sunscreen properly anyway.
Improvements the EWG finds from last year?
Almost 70% of brands (only 29% in 2008) have added strong UVA protection to the mix.
What’s more the ingredient oxybenzone with the potential to disrupt hormone systems was in 19% fewer products this year.
The report also has a list of 339 sunscreens that it does not recommend.
The report’s detractors from the sunscreen industry say the assessment is flawed and that the sunscreen ingredients weren’t looked at in terms of stability.
They insist that what’s inside the bottle isn’t nearly as important as applying the product correctly using the right sunscreen for what you’ll be doing (and your skin type) and reapplying every two hours.
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You’ll want to look for these ingredients known to help protect against UVA as you shop for products. They include avobenzone (Parsol 1789) titanium dioxide zinc oxide or mexoryl. And in case you’re wondering here’s EWG’s list of the ten best sunscreens:
1. Soleo Organics Sunscreen Organic chemical-free sunscreen SPF 30+
2. Badger Sunscreen SPF 30
3. UV Natural Sunscreen SPF 30+
4. Mexitan Sunscreen Lotion SPF 50
5. Lavera Sunscreen Neutral SPF 40
6. California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance SPF 30+
7. Trukid Sunny Days Facestick Mineral Sunscreen UVA/UVB Broad Spectrum SPF 30+
8. Kabana Skin Care Green Screen Organic Sunscreen SPF 22 Skin Tone Tinted
9. Obagi Nu-Derm Physical UV Block SPF 32
10. Elta MD UV Physical SPF 41.
You can find the rest of the list that is rated by sunscreen effectiveness including top ten lip balms and daily moisturizers as well as the 339 products the group doesn’t recommend online.
What’s A Mother To Do? Why It’s Harder Than Ever To Find Safe, Natural Sunscreens
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About a year ago I stumbled across a blog post titled Why It’s Harder Than Ever To Find Safe Natural Sunscreens. This post was a mother’s lament about the decision of several leading natural personal care companies including Dr. Hauschka and Weleda to opt out of the sun care product market altogether.
Apparently the European Union’s new stricter regulations around UV protection in sun care products would have forced them to re-formulate their products using synthetic sunscreen filters. These companies like mine are committed to making safe healthy non-toxic plant-based products so they are just saying ‘No Thanks’ to government regulations based on fear-mongering inconclusive studies and incomplete science.
But this woman’s blog post revealed the true bind conscientious consumers are in. On the one hand you want to make choices that protect you and your loved ones from danger and harm on the other hand your choices are limited by government regulations that are often strongly influenced if not dictated by large corporate interests short-sightedness complicity from the medical (and in this case dermatology) community or a simple lack of funds for more meaningful research and testing.
Whereas it was once believed that UVB rays (the ones that cause sunburn) were directly linked to skin cancer it is now believed that UVA rays are the real cause of both skin cancer and pre-mature aging of the skin. So UVA filtration (or protection) is the latest driving factor behind global sunscreen product development. Unfortunately at the moment there are only a few chemical sunscreens that can protect you from UVA and as it turns out here in the U.
S. we have even fewer options than in Europe or Japan due to the FDA’s continuing failure to finalize its official position on this sensitive but critical matter.
It also turns out that some of the FDA-approved sunscreen chemicals can lead to other cancers because of the free radicals they generate when they absorb and react with the very rays they are designed to protect you from! Free radicals are unstable molecules that cause cellular damage by stealing electrons from healthy cells –a process called oxidation. The DNA mutations caused by this damage are usually a pre-requisite for the rapid development of any type of cancer.
According to The Chemical Sunscreen Health Disaster web site sunscreens made from chemicals are potentially harmful to humans in one of two ways:
1) Their chemical action leads to the proliferation of cancer-causing free radicals and/or
2) Their estrogenic effects make them endocrine disruptors which can cause serious problems in sexual development and adult sexual function and can further increase risks for certain types of cancer other than melanoma.
This is a list of FDA-approved sunscreen ingredients as of August 2010:
Avobenzone (also known as Parsol 1789)
Cinoxate
Dioxybenzone
Homosalate
Menthyl anthranilate
Mexoryl
Octinoxate (formerly Octyl Methoxycinnamate)
Octocrylene
Octyl Salicylate
Oxybenzone
Padimate O
Phenylbenzimidazole sulfonic acid
Sulisobenzone
Titanium Dioxide
Trolamine salicylate
Zinc Oxide
Of this list only two ingredients –Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide– are naturally occurring ingredients. Both are very effective physical UVA and UVB sun blocks because they deflect UV rays away from the skin. All the other ingredients are chemical sunscreens that work by absorbing UVB radiation (the so-called “burning rays”) and then dispersing the energy through chemical reactions –some of which can generate those dreaded “free radicals” that often lead to cancer.
The most commonly used of these ingredients are Avobenzone Octinoxate (formerly Octyl Methoxycinnamate) Octocrylene Oxybenzone and Padimate O.
Avobenzone is an oil soluble chemical agent capable of absorbing light throughout the entire UVA spectrum. It is one of the very few comprehensive chemical UVA sunscreens available on the market right now. Its role in protecting skin from the potentially carcinogenic effects of UVA radiation are what make it the most widely used chemical sunscreen ingredient.
Unfortunately Avobenzone is known in the scientific community as a strong free radical generator that degrades fairly quickly in actual sunlight rapidly reducing its effectiveness as a sunscreen. Which has to make you wonder… can using this type of sunscreen actually cause more harm than good?
The results of one study done at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Zurich Switzerland showed that many widely used sunscreen chemicals including benzophenone-3 octyl methoxycinnamate and octyl-dimethyl-PABA mimic the effects of the female hormone estrogen and trigger developmental abnormalities in rats.
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And as far back as 1998 Dr. John Knowland at the University of Oxford reported studies showing that certain sunscreens containing PABA and its derivatives can damage DNA at least in the test tube experiments. When a chemical sunscreen Padimate-O was added to DNA and the mixture exposed to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight it was found that the sunscreen broke down in sunlight releasing highly active agents that could damage DNA.
Research by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) of over 1500 sunscreens and other sun-blocking products currently on the market found that 3 of 5 sunscreens either don’t protect skin from sun damage or contain hazardous chemicals –or both. In their 2009 Sunscreen Report they reported a 70% increase over 2008 in the number of products containing one ore more of the 4 strong UVA filters FDA has approved for use in sunscreens (Avobenzone Mexoryl Titanium Dioxide and Zinc). Their research showed that despite the increased use of UVA filters 1-in-9 products offer dangerously low levels of UVA protection.
In August 2007 the FDA proposed a 4-star rating system for UVA protection and a requirement that the rating appear on sunscreen labels. The FDA has not yet finalized this proposal though there has been talk that the new rules will finally be released in the fall of 2010. As a result of this delay no brands are currently posting the new UVA rating voluntarily. With no mandatory comprehensive sunscreen standards in place products vary widely in safety and effectiveness natural product manufacturers aren’t able to offer safer products mothers fret and the public continues to lose out.
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