In the article it briefly mentions L’Oreal. They have a patent on another set of filters mexoryl and mexoryl xl, both are great and allowed by the FDA. You can buy it with their La Roche Posay brand.
Newer, better sunscreens have not been approved by the FDA
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#12*in US.
Honestly, I was expecting an article about some ingredients being harmful to coral reef hence disallowed, or similar.
Instead, the issue is slow process of FDA.
> The FDA hasn’t added a new active ingredient to its sunscreen monograph [...] in decades.
Also, what makes this article interesting (a "man bites a dog" kind of story) is that the US is more strict than EU in this area; in 95% of cases for all kinds of items sold, it's the opposite.
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#13You're also not allowed to have the best toothpaste in the world. Toothpaste with Novamin can't be sold in the US. Thankfully the internet makes it easy to get the good stuff anyhow.
For those that are curious, here's[1] a mildly deep dive into the history of Novamin sales in the US.
[1]: https://medium.com/@ravenstine/the-curious-history-of-novami...
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#14How often do people go to the dermatologist to have their moles checked?
Considering most are booked 12-18 months out, if they are even accepting new patients, probably not a lot.
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#16> At 36, I am just old enough to remember when sunscreen wasn’t a big deal. My mom, despite being among the palest people alive, does not remember bringing it on our earliest vacations, or hearing any mention of sun protection by our pediatrician.
> Now SPF is ubiquitous. You can find it in lotions, sprays, gels, oils, powders, and implements that look like grade-school glue sticks, as well as infused into skin-care products, lip balms, makeup, and clothing. Sun care has its own aisle at big-box stores, and beauty companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars have been built from the ground up by offering only products that block ultraviolet rays.
So we went from little to no sunscreen to ubiquity over a few decades, but over that time rates of skin cancer have increased per 100k.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK247164/figure/skincanc...
Shouldn't rates have gone down? What explains this?
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#17> At 36, I am just old enough to remember when sunscreen wasn’t a big deal. My mom, despite being among the palest people alive, does not remember bringing it on our earliest vacations, or hearing any mention of sun protection by our pediatrician. > Now SPF is ubiquitous. You can find it in lotions, sprays, gels, oils, powders, and implements that look like grade-school glue sticks, as well as infused into skin-care…
I recall reading a recent study (too lazy to look it up, tbh) that showed a link between skin cancer and sunscreen use, so your numbers may somehow support that suspicion.
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#18> At 36, I am just old enough to remember when sunscreen wasn’t a big deal. My mom, despite being among the palest people alive, does not remember bringing it on our earliest vacations, or hearing any mention of sun protection by our pediatrician. > Now SPF is ubiquitous. You can find it in lotions, sprays, gels, oils, powders, and implements that look like grade-school glue sticks, as well as infused into skin-care…
Perhaps because so many sunscreens contain benzene, a known carcinogen:
https://www.valisure.com/valisure-newsroom/valisure-detects-...
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#19> At 36, I am just old enough to remember when sunscreen wasn’t a big deal. My mom, despite being among the palest people alive, does not remember bringing it on our earliest vacations, or hearing any mention of sun protection by our pediatrician. > Now SPF is ubiquitous. You can find it in lotions, sprays, gels, oils, powders, and implements that look like grade-school glue sticks, as well as infused into skin-care…
People's willingness to engage in risky behaviour tends to increase with how safe they think they are. So basically they're staying out in the sun for longer, but either not using or reapplying enough sunscreen.
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#20> At 36, I am just old enough to remember when sunscreen wasn’t a big deal. My mom, despite being among the palest people alive, does not remember bringing it on our earliest vacations, or hearing any mention of sun protection by our pediatrician. > Now SPF is ubiquitous. You can find it in lotions, sprays, gels, oils, powders, and implements that look like grade-school glue sticks, as well as infused into skin-care…
I don’t have them on hand but I believe some studies claimed that diet can have a negative affect on skin cancer resistance.