Does Your Sunscreen Work?

This is the title of an article posted on the Environmental Working Group website. Now I know the summer season has already begun, but you have to admit, June provided us with all the rain we needed for a while. Regardless, it's never to late to get started with protecting yourself as much as possible.

This article is a report of over 1600 different types of sunscreens, lip balms, skin moisturizers, etc. If you were not aware, many of the ingredients in these products are very toxic for your body and this helps clear up the confusion.

To quote a line from this report "Surprisingly, 3 of 5 brand-name sunscreens either don’t protect skin from sun damage or contain hazardous chemicals — or both."

Now, I would also like to comment on the necessity of getting enough sunshine without using different forms of sunscreen. The human race and every other known life form on our planet has been living under the sun for thousands of years without the supposed benefit of SPF 30. So the sun can't be all bad. In fact, the sun provides us with one of the most important ingredients to sustain life as we know it, Vitamin D.

Vitamin D recently has been increasingly understood to provide us with a wide rage of health benefits including issues related with diabetes, multiple sclerosis, cancer, brain function and more. To read more about this information check out these articles found on NaturalNews.com and Mercola.com.

To sum it up, getting the right amount of sunlight and avoiding harmful chemicals both should be a priority for an individual looking to improve there health.