Product Review - Soleo Organics All Natural Sunscreen
Sunscreens are controversial. The mainstream says you absolutely must slather it on every time you go out into the sun. However, sunscreen prevents your body from making vitamin D. You need some exposure to the sun, without sunscreen … during the time of day when the sun is not at its hottest, before 10 am or after 4 pm, in order for you body to make vitamin D.
With natural skin care growing in popularity, there are a lot of sunscreen products claiming to be natural. However, not all of them live up to the claims when you read their ingredients lists.
There’s also the discussion about the so called natural sun protective ingredients zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. Are they micronized? Are they nano size? Or are they larger particle size? In the non-micronized larger size, they go onto the skin leaving a white film. Most sun products contain the micronized or nano sized particles.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified titanium dioxide as a possible carcinogen. Some companies now leave it out, but still use the zinc oxide.
Recent research is reported to say that micronized zinc oxide is not absorbed through the skin into the bloodstream if it is greater than 100 nanometers in size. That is not true for particles less than 100 nanometers.
Soleo Organics recently introduced their All Natural Sunscreen with 22.3% zinc oxide. The rest of the ingredients include oils and botanical extracts.
The zinc oxide is well above the 100 nanometer size, according to the company.
One other ingredient caught my attention… vegetable oils. They specifically named four other oils. Why is vegetable oil listed as ingredient instead of naming the specific vegetable oils? It usually means they’re hiding something. When I contacted the company they did admit that the vegetable oils included soy oil and canola oil, both undesirable oils. However, they said it only makes up about 1% of the product.
Compared to the majority of the sunscreen products on the market, this is definitely a better choice.
However, here is an even better choice … without the vegetable oil.
Yours in health,
The Ingredients Investigator
Protecting you from harmful ingredients
www.dyingtolookgood.com
dr.cfarlow@dyingtolookgood.com
