New regulations. Which products are safest? Get ready for summer with our Hawaii sunscreen safety info.
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New regulations. Which products are safest? Get ready for summer with our Hawaii sunscreen safety info.
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I don’t understand, if it’s so bad for the ecosystem in Hawaii’s ocean waters, why allow it to continue for 2 and a half more years?! I could see 6 months to allow retailers to sell out product, or send it back to the manufacturer, but 2 more years on top of that??? It’s rediculous, and makes no sense to wait that long. That’s government at its finest for you…
Please encourage people to forego the sunscreen and just wear SPF rated long sleeve rashguards or water shirts.
Before we visited Hawaii we researched what sunscreen to bring. We wanted to make sure whatever we got was environmentally safe.
I also burn very easily and wanted to make sure I was protected. I also bought a beach cover up and hat.
We bought Kiss My Face spf 30. It was wonderful. It may be pricey but worth it. We were there for 10 days and in the sun a lot and I never burned.
I hope more people will buy environmentally safe sunscreens sooner then when the law takes effect, as we noticed significant bleaching of the coral while snorkeling in spots all over the Big Island.
How does Sun Bum brand compare?
On inbound flights and cruise ship shore excursions, the carriers should offer informative flyers to tourists in many languages. Tourists might be bringing in banned sunscreens. Airport lobbies could have surrender bins – bin attendants (volunteers) could perhaps provide coupons to save money on Safe Sunscreen brands supplied by the manufacturers.
The Kiss My Face Organics sunscreen that you have linked to contains 7.5% Octinoxate so would not work for the new Hawaiian sunscreen law.
Hi and Mahalo for the story, I love you guy’s!
I use and always have used Hawaiian Tropic dark tanning oil, it does not contain either of those ingredients, however the Hawaiian Tropic oil spray 4 spf uva/uvb contains the Oxybenzone 2.0% along with Avobenzone 2.8% and Octocrylene 2.2% all under medicinal ingredients …Mahalo Rhonda I will look for Planet Sun up here in Calgary and if I can’t find it here, well I’m just gonna have to move back home to the Islands…
Mahalo’s and Aloha to everyone
Best aloha and mahalo John!
“Oxybenzone may also cause hormonal disruptions and cell damage itself, and could be cancer causing. More on this is likely to come to the forefront based on research soon.” Hmmm, well, what that says is there is no evidence yet of those results. But we DO know that sun exposure does cause skin cancer, do effective protection is crucial.
You basically want to look for a sunscreen that is zinc oxide based. There is some question as to the safety of titanium dioxide.
What’s happening with the floods on Kauai?