Beauty Tips For Body Care
If you're a regular on this sub, you probably already know this. But for newer people: please, for the love of skincare, don't fall for those DIY sunscreen posts. I saw this video on my Facebook news feed and I'm pretty sure I felt the ghost of my childhood second degree sunburn come to life. (Video summary: someone cooks up a recipe for "non-toxic" homemade sunscreen using coconut oil, olive oil, essential oils, and zinc oxide. They heat it up, stir it with a spoon, let cool, then store it in a transparent jar outdoors in direct sunlight. Off-camera, chemists everywhere are pulling their hair out.)Here are the reasons to never DIY sunscreen:Zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are really hard particles to disperse properly. An industry-grade homogenizer (AKA not a spoon) is needed to break up and emulsify zinc and titanium powders so that they can be spread evenly and cover all your skin. If not distributed properly, you're misleading yourself into thinking your skin is protected when it's not. It's impossible to know how much SPF you're actually getting.Although coconut oil does screen an insubstantial portion of UV light, it, as well as other oils, can actually attract sunlight like a tanning oil and cause UV damage. Coconut oil is also a terrible base that does not work well with physical blockers. This DIY sunscreen is gonna be greasy AF--can you imagine putting this on your face? Just the idea is making me break out.Overall, it'd be great if people could stop getting scared of big science ingredients that actually protect your skin from the sun. Those """toxic chemicals""" are for your safety. There's an intricate art and chemistry that goes into sunscreen products that makes them stable and effective. So please leave this to the professionals.
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