With summer coming, questions about sunscreens are just around the corner. How often should sunscreen be used?
Are ingredients such as oxybenzone and avobenzone endocrine disruptors that are absorbed by the body in the products? Are they dangerous to humans and coral reefs? Will the use of sunscreen lower Vitamin D levels in humans? What are the “safest” sunscreens?
It has only been a few decades since a suntan ceased to convey “status” and began to represent unnecessary health risks in some people’s minds. Before the industrial revolution, when people still worked in the fields, a suntan carried the stigma of marking someone as working class, a peasant, or an agricultural laborer.
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