[pct-l] Sunscreen

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

Cosmetics as a whole suffers from this problem. Lotions, creams,  
shampoos. Basically anything you put on your body.
http://storyofstuff.org/cosmetics/

On Jun 5, 2011, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/25/ 
> MNJP1JJR7T.DTL
>
>  More than half of the sunscreens on the market do not provide  
> adequate UVA protection, and many of them actually contain  
> hazardous ingredients, according to an analysis of 292 national  
> brands and 1,700 products by the nonprofit Environmental Working  
> Group, based in Washington.
>
> The problem, the group's researchers said, is that the sunscreen  
> industry has taken advantage of lax federal regulations and allowed  
> a marketing Wild West to develop. Many products with high sun- 
> protection factor, or SPF, ratings contain bad ingredients, and  
> companies use unsubstantiated claims about their effectiveness to  
> market them, the group said.