![]() ![]() Best Baby Sunscreen for Sensitive Skin: Blue Lizard Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen Best Baby Sunscreen for Adults too: Australian Gold Sunscreen ![]() The Best Value Baby Sunscreen: Babyganics Sunscreen Lotion Best Overall Baby Sunscreen: Thinkbaby Safe Sunscreen Features to Consider in Good Baby Sunscreens.The EWG recommends the sunscreens below, available here on Babywise, in their most recent list of the Best Scoring Sunscreens Lotions for Kids. Retinyl palmitate is an inactive ingredient which causes extreme sensitivity to sunburns. Oxybenzone can act like estrogen in the bloodstream and causes allergic skin reactions. If you must spray, make sure you’re in a very open area and have baby’s nose and mouth covered.ĭON’T Use Sunblocks Containing Harmful ChemicalsĮspecially avoid Oxybenzone and Retinyl palmitate. Get your babies covered up and protected, even on cloudy days which can actually be the worst kind for the sun’s UVA rays.ĭON’T Use Aerosol Sunscreens with PropellantsĪerosol sprays contribute to harmful chemicals ingested into sensitive and young lungs. Get them back on while skin is dry and let it have time to absorb into the skin, or they don’t do any good! Remember those hidden places like the back of the ears and in between toes! Sunscreen DON’Ts Use sunscreen lotions for best effect and coverage. Many of them are labeled for use on babies and children, but are full of chemicals we shouldn’t be applying to baby’s sensitive skin. There are some scary chemical ingredients included in some sunscreen products today. Read and Understand the Labels of Sunscreens The FDA is considering barring SPF above 50+.” High-SPF suppresses the skin reddening and pain of sunburns, but they raise the risk of other kinds of skin damage. Use sunshades in the car and for your strollers, too!Ĭhances are, the local drug store or resort pool won’t sell a healthy option in sunscreen, so you’ll need to purchase the best ahead of time at a health food store or online.Īccording to the EWG, “The most worrisome thing about high-SPF products is that they give people a false sense of security and beguile them to stay in the sun too long. We still travel with a big beach umbrella in the car, and use it as often as possible. I’m a huge fan of a portable canopy, and really loved the one we had with the built-in floor and screens when my boys were babies. Now, even my teenager knows sun-time means a water shirt. It’s less you’ll worry about in reapplying lotion to their arms and backs, the places they’ll get most exposure. Since my boys were babies, we’ve used long-sleeved sun shirts anytime we play outside in the water. The scary thing is most sun blocks are misleading with their high SPF numbers, which only block the UVB rays, not the harmful UVA Rays. UVB Rays can burn your skin, but are not the penetrating kind. ![]() UVA Rays are the harmful ones that, according to the Environmental Working Group, “penetrate deep into the body, accelerate skin aging, may suppress the immune system and may cause skin cancer.” As my doctor said, “the bigger the better!” Protect your babies' and kids’ skin and scalp not only from burn, but from harmful rays. ALWAYS use a sun hat when going outdoors. I was shocked to learn that one of the top places for melanoma to develop is on your scalp, under your hair. I’ve compiled this list of sunscreen do’s and don’ts to make sure we’re providing our precious babies, toddlers and kids with the best sun protection possible. With sunshine season upon us, let’s unblock some of the confusion when it comes to sun protection. I’m a big advocate for safety outdoors, especially after a scare with a spot of melanoma removed from my scalp five years ago. As a resident of the “Sunshine State”, an avid traveler and outdoors mom, our family is always in the sun.
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