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Regarding sunscreens and their effect on ocean life, I've mostly read that oxybenzone and octinoxate are harmful to coral reefs. Most articles cite this study that show these ingredients result in coral bleaching. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=10.1289/ehp.10966But I was watching a video on youtube in which Caroline Hirons was talking to Dr Marko Lens about spf and he said that research has shown that zinc oxide is also very toxic to marine life. I started googling and read that some sunscreen chemists and marine biologists argue that the study's methods are not necessarily the best way to replicate the effect of sunscreen ingredients in the ocean, and that they didn't include zinc oxide or titanium dioxide in the study. The following blog post summarizes what I've googled pretty well. https://daniellesdives.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/is-your-sunscreen-reef-safe/Basically all that my internet searching has done is confuse me a lot - is there such a thing as ocean safe sunscreen?
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