How to Choose Safe Sunscreen and Safe Skin Care Products with Autumn Blum

#041 - Autumn Blum, CEO of human-safe and reef-safe sunscreen maker Stream2Sea teaches us how to be better skin care products detectives by explaining which skin care ingredients are or may be dangerous and how to identify cleaner formulas.  In addition, she discusses the recent sunscreen recalls, the differences between sunscreens formulas, and the importance of using high quality hand sanitizer. 

DOWNLOAD: Pocket Guide of Stream2Sea’s Ingredients to Avoid in Skin Care
Carefully Healing Blog Post:  Sunscreen:  What You Need to Know Before You Buy

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Facebook at Stream2Sea
Instagram at @stream2sea

And online at Stream2Sea.com ($) and on the Resources page of my website at CarefullyHealing.com/resources.

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Downloadable Pocket Guide of Stream2Sea’s Ingredients to Avoid

The 3 O’s:  Oxybenzone, Octocrylene, Octinoxate

Ingredients of Emerging Concern, not included in the Pocket Guide but mentioned in the episode:  Butyloctyl salicylate

Reports and Press Releases:

• Subsequent to taping this episode, Stream2Sea had its products independently-tested for benzene through a third-party and the results for all of its products came back benzene-free!  To read that release, use this link.
• Valisure Report highlighting benzene levels in sunscreens (5/24/21)July 

2021 Sunscreen Recall Notices:

• Johnson & Johnson for Neutrogena and Aveeno sunscreens (7/14/21)
• Recall news from CVS Health

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