{"id":123,"date":"2012-05-16T09:35:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2012-06-22T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:23:00","slug":"ewgs-list-of-worst-sunscreens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/ewgs-list-of-worst-sunscreens\/","title":{"rendered":"EWG’s List of Worst Sunscreens"},"content":{"rendered":"

EWG’s list of worst sunscreens<\/strong><\/p>\n

The EWG recommends avoiding these sunscreens because they are spays or powders, have SPF values above 50+, and contain retinyl palmitate and\/or oxybenzone.<\/p>\n

Neutrogena Fresh Cooling Body Mist Sunblock, SPF 70<\/a><\/p>\n

Banana Boat Sport Performance Active MAX Protect Continuous Spray Sunscreen, SPF 110<\/a><\/p>\n

Aveeno Continuous Protection Sunblock Spray Active, SPF 70<\/a><\/p>\n

Wegmans Sheer Sunscreen Body Mist, SPF 55<\/a><\/p>\n

Rite Aid Extreme Sport Continuous Spray, SPF 70+<\/a><\/p>\n

CVS Sheer Mist Sunscreen, SPF 70<\/a><\/p>\n

Walgreens Sheer Body Mist Sunscreen Spray, SPF 70<\/a><\/p>\n

Coppertone Sport Clear Continuous Spray Sunscreen, SPF 90<\/a><\/p>\n

Best affordable sunscreens<\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on its analysis of over 800 beach and sport sunscreens, the EWG provided Yahoo! Shine with its 15 most affordable, recommended products:<\/p>\n

Coppertone Kids Pure & Simple Sunscreen Lotion, SPF 50<\/a><\/p>\n

BabyGanics Cover Up Baby Sunscreen for Face & Body, Fragrance Free, SPF 50+<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunbow Dora the Explorer Sunscreen, Pink, SPF 30<\/a><\/p>\n

Purple Prairie Botanicals SunStuff Mineral Lotion, SPF 30<\/a><\/p>\n

Nature’s Gate Aqua Block Sunscreen Lotion, SPF 50<\/a><\/p>\n

Solbar Shield Sunscreen, SPF 40<\/a><\/p>\n

Caribbean Solutions Sol Kid Kare Biodegradable Sunscreen, SPF 25<\/a><\/p>\n

Tropical Sands Broad Spectrum Sunscreen, SPF 30<\/a><\/p>\n

KidsUV Natural Sunscreen, Blue, SPF 30<\/a><\/p>\n

Color Me Pink Baby UV\/ Kids UV 100% Natural Sunscreen, SPF 30<\/a><\/p>\n

Alba Botanica Natural Very Emollient Sunblock, Kids Mineral Protection, SPF 30<\/a><\/p>\n

Blue Lizard Australian Sunscreen, Face, SPF 30+<\/a><\/p>\n

Healing-Scents Live Long Mineral-Based Sunscreen, SPF 25<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hara Body Care Hara Sport Sunscreen, SPF 30<\/a><\/p>\n

Vanicream Sport Sunscreen Lotion, SPF 35<\/a><\/p>\n

All of the above meet the following criteria:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Good, stable sun protection<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fewest ingredients with toxicity concerns. Do not contain the worst offenders: retinyl palmitate and oxybenzone.<\/p>\n

\u2022 No sprays or powders<\/p>\n

\u2022 No SPF values above 50+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EWG’s list of worst sunscreens The EWG recommends avoiding these sunscreens because they are spays or powders, have SPF values above 50+, and contain retinyl palmitate and\/or oxybenzone. Neutrogena Fresh Cooling Body Mist Sunblock, SPF 70 Banana Boat Sport Performance Active MAX Protect Continuous Spray Sunscreen, SPF 110 Aveeno Continuous Protection Sunblock Spray Active, SPF 70 Wegmans Sheer Sunscreen Body Mist, SPF 55 Rite Aid Extreme Sport Continuous Spray, SPF 70+ CVS Sheer Mist Sunscreen, SPF 70 Walgreens Sheer Body […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-sun-block"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/470_2364038.0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallhorse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}