[cryptoz]

Worth mentioning that UVA and UVB are different, and that there are multiple sunscreen scandals happening right now where UVA protection is insufficient. UVB causes burns and tanning but UVA causes more cancer; and American suncreens especially - but also globally - are not telling the truth about how much protection they offer.

You've got to be careful to really apply multiple layers of sunscreen with UVA protection in order to get the skin-cancer-reducing benefits. A thin layer does not do it. Thick layers required, and be warned, you sunscreen label may be lying to you about how much protection it offers.

[pdr94]

This happened in South Korea, there were 3 brands that needed to pull their products because of this. https://www.nssgclub.com/en/pills/25875/solari-coreani-contr...

[rplst8]

You need to look for sunscreens that say "broad spectrum". That is the approved language in the U.S. for UVA protection.

https://time.com/3924609/sunscreen-spf-uva-uvb/

[cryptoz]

Sorry to say, but that article is 6 years old. A lot has changed since then. Yes, you need broad spectrum, but the point of my post is that those labels are not always telling the truth. You do not always get broad spectrum sunscreen from a bottle that says it is broad spectrum sunscreen.

[plorkyeran]

"Broad spectrum" just tells you that it provides some amount of UVA protection. It doesn't tell you how much, and it's often much less than the UVB protection.

[Johanx64]

Hard part is finding sunscreen which isn't cancerous or poisonous itself. 1 in 4 seem to have benzene in it. The sunscreen sitting on my shelf has talc in it. Etc

If only I could just buy sunscreen without having to worry about any of this shit.

[clint]

If you look over that table, its generally the cheap drugstore sunscreens pushed by 2-3 large multinational companies.

Buy a higher quality sunscreen (there are multiple reddits for this exact purpose) and you will not get poisoned by benzene and it won't be greasy and smelly.