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Title    Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen
Date    Tuesday May 15 2018, @03:31PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the no-sun-in-my-mom's-basement dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/15/1118235

An Anonymous Coward writes:

[...] with bottles and tubes covered with claims, "it's really hard to make sense of what all the terminology means," says Roopal V. Kundu, M.D., an associate professor of dermatology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who researches how people buy and use sunscreen.

Here, then, is the help you need: seven common terms and what they actually mean—and don't. The federal government requires sunscreen claims to be "truthful and not misleading." But only three of the main claims consumers see—"SPF," "broad-spectrum," and "water-resistant"—are strictly regulated by the [U.S.] government and therefore have agreed-upon definitions.

(source)

The article goes on to explain those terms as well as "sport," "dermatologist recommended," "natural," "mineral" and "reef safe."


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  1. "source" - https://www.consumerreports.org/sunscreens/shop-smarter-for-sunscreen/
  2. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=26578

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