Sun Care/Outdoor Natural Protection

Gaia Organics highlights the importance of natural sunscreens vs chemically based suncare. Gaia uses the only natural UV-A sunscreen approved by the US FDA, Zinc Oxide. It does not utilize nanoparticles.

Chemical types can be dangerously absorbed into the skin, whilst mineral types lie safely on the surface, so from a safety perspective, the mineral types are clearly superior. However, one should exercise common sense and stay out of the sun during peak times. The higher SPF does not mean you are more protected.

Gaia also uses nutritional B-Vitamin para-amino benzoic acid (PABA), an FDA-approved natural UV-B sunscreen. Industry-wide use of synthetic PABA esters has created reputations as skin sensitizers, yet nutritional PABA, a natural component of folic acid and a B-complex vitamin constituent of many whole foods, when stabilized with anti-oxidants such as green tea extracts, remains the safest UV-B screen available.

Green tea provides anti-oxidant properties, so much so, that green tea extracts have been the most promising substances in skin cancer prevention and treatment thereof for the past two decades.

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