Posted on 05/06/2019 12:42:03 PM PDT by SMGFan
The chemicals in sunscreen enter the bloodstream of users within hours of slapping it on, an American study has found.
The study found that chemicals – avobenzone, oxybenzone, ecamsule and octocrylene – reached levels high enough to trigger a government safety investigation within a day.
The research conducted by America’s Food and Drug Administration found that blood concentration continued to rise during the day – and remained in the body for up to 24 hours.
Previous research has suggested that sunscreen ingredients can enter the bloodstream, and have even been detected in breast milk.
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Well technically when it was invented it was just to prevent sunburn. Nobody really worried about skin cancer. Then the world started making the assumption that if you don’t get burned you won’t get cancer. And the sunscreen guys just kind of nodded and smiled along.
Just can’t win
Zero surprise to me.
Something that looked like an eventual headline from the start. I’m probably from the last generation that will be shriveled in old age for the sun we got as kids, but at least we weren’t commanded to smear that stuff all over ourselves all the time.
I normally keep my skin covered by light clothing. Due to a bone marrow transplant, I’m prone to graft vs host disease. Sun will trigger it. So, I stay covered. I used to love summer, being tan and all the fun things being outside in the summer offers. Those days are long gone for me.
Those are first world problems. In other parts of the world people are dirty and spend a lot of time in the sun but they’re working and sweating. Skin cancer cases are low.
Here we bath with soap and swim in chlorinated water then spend time in the sun with skin stripped of the natural oils. Viola skin cancer!
Anyway that was the explanation of one of my anthropology professors.
Oops? Reply to wrong thread?
We also are obsessed with avoiding germs that our immune systems never fully develop, explains the proliferation of all of these weird food allergies.
We went the same time every year....at the end of the school year. Finally figured out why we never celebrated the 4th of July. Ahhhh.....Canada....A big duh.....
The storms....oh yeh...fast and furious...you could see it coming at you.
A man from the future told me to invest in Zinc.
Remember this people: if it goes ON you, it goes IN you. Look at those ingredients and ask yourself, “would I eat this?”
Depending on the quality, coconut oil has an SPF of between 10 and 15.
Living will kill you.
We also are obsessed with avoiding germs that our immune systems never fully develop, explains the proliferation of all of these weird food allergies.
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I have worked outside my whole life. Never wash my hands before I eat because there is no place to do such a thing. dirt is good for you.
I also have never used sunscreen. I don’t know anyone who works outside that does.
I never get sick and at 61 years old never a hint of skin cancer.
I got hit by a black fly hatch. It was painful. The worst was a deer fly hatch. I had allergic reactions and my hands swelled up big time.
A derivative approach based on claims that tests showed sunscreen ingredients applied to corals are potentially harmful? Someone thought sunscreen washing off into seawater rated scrutiny for environmental issues.
Thank you! That is great to know.
With a quiet sun, has anyone undertaken a recent sunlight exposure study, which accounts for a reduced amount of UV consequent the reduction of sunspots?
Next up-the threat from under arm deodorants. - Tom
They are just now figuring this out? Any two year old could tell us this. Okay; maybe 4 yo.
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