Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Natural and Safe Sunscreen

Ideally you don't even want to use sunscreen and just keep your baby under the shade and wear hat and sleeves, etc. However, as your baby turns into a toddler, this task gets harder and harder because they want to run around so much and a hot day also doesn't help either. There are two kinds of sunscreen, chemical and physical. Chemical sunscreen absorbs sunlight, however, creates free radical on your skin and some chemicals can absorb into your skin. Physical sunscreen deflects or blocks sunlight instead, and is less irritating to the skin, however, they tend to be greasy and not as transparent and hard to wash off. Of course I decided to go with a physical sunscreen. Then I read that there are also concerns about nanonized physical sunscreen, apparently if they are nanonized, they might get absorbed into the skin as well. So I finally decided to go with Badger Sunscreen, it is all natural and non nanonized zinc oxide (I heard that California Baby Sunscreen is also a good choice with titanium oxide instead, but I read that some people might be allergic to titanium oxide).

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