Sunscreens: What You Don't Know May Harm You

The Environmental Working Group has updated its database of sunscreens, marking which it deems both safe and effective, and which it does not.

Its 2007 study of sunscreens found fewer than 2 in 10 both safe and effective. This year's results aren't much different, and the Food and Drug Administration has still yet to update its rules for allowable ingredients, something that the Environmental Working Group has been pushing for (since about 1978). (It's urging people to tell the FDA to get on the ball.)

The Denver Post ran a good story this week, outlining all the factors involved in finding safe, effective sunscreens.

EWG's Top 5 choices for safe effective sunscreens are these:

1. Keys Soap Solar Rx Therapeutic Sunblock
2. Trukid Sunny Days Facestick Mineral Sunscreen UVA/UVB Broad Spectrum
3. California Baby Sunblock Stick No Fragrance
4. Badger Sunscreen
5. Marie Veronique Skin Therapy Sun Serum

The Daily Green, using the Environmental Working Group's research as a guide, identified these 13 sunscreens that are safe and natural.

For more tips about keeping safe and green this summer, see The Daily Green's Summer Tips.

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