California Baby

Your skin glows

Sunscreen has become and essential part of our daily skin routine year round.  Dermatologists and The American Cancer Society urge it. That being said, do you know that most sunscreens include ingredients which have been know to cause cancer?
The culprits (to name a few):  Benzophenones (dixoybenzone, oxybenzone), PABA and PABA esters (ethyl dihydroxy propyl PAB,  glyceryl PABA, p-aminobenzoic acid, padimate-O or octyl dimethyl PABA), Cinnamates (cinoxate, ethylhexyl p-methoxycinnamate, octocrylene, octyl methoxycinnamate), Salicylates (ethylhexyl salicylate, homosalate, octyl salicylate), Digalloyl trioleate, Menthyl anthranilate, Avobenzone [butyl-methyoxydibenzoylmethan. I could go on and on. Suffice it to say I won't be putting this yucky, toxic stuff on my skin.
The three primary defects of chemical sunscreens:

1. They are powerful free radical generators. Their free radical generation increases cellular damage and changes that lead to cancer.
2. They often have strong estrogenic activity, they mimic hormones. Estrogenic - "Gender Bending" - chemicals interfere with normal sexual development - 
   Engendering a host of secondary medical problems.
3. They are synthetic chemicals that are alien to the human body and accumulate in body fat stores. The human body is well adapted to de-toxify biologicals that it has been exposed to over tens of millions of years. But it has often has difficulty removing new and non-biological compounds such DDT, Dioxin, PCBs, and chemical sunscreens.

California Baby sunscreen is one of the highest rated safe sunscreens on the Environmental Working Group's skin deep cosmetic safety database. That's why Skin Pure Skin gives a hearty endorsement to the complete California Baby Sunscreen line.  It's the only one we use.
Skin Pure Skin recommends using sunscreen daily and especially after using our at home microdermabrasion kit that has the My Dermafile and Organic shea butter. www.skinpureskin.com
How to apply: Before makeup, after moisturizer. In the morning, after you have washed your face apply your regular moisturizer. After a couple minutes, apply approx. a pea sized amount, or more, to your face and neck. Pay special attention to your nose and high areas of the face, these are the most suseptable to actinic keratosis (a precursor to melanomas). Ladies with balding loved ones, please teach the guys how to use sunscreen as a gift to you both. I forgot to mention that this sunscreen gives a special subtle luminosity to skin, I always get complements due to it.
With affection and appreciation, we hope you enjoy these last sunny days of Summer.