You can buy them in bargain style shops for a couple of quid, or spend £20+ on some fancy brand from a pharmacy.Īverage price wise, normally sunscreen seems to be around £4-8 for 100ml - 200ml when bought in the UK. Sunscreen or sun cream prices can vary dramatically. What about a vegan or tinted version? – hold your horses, as Not The Norm, the company that makes Shade, is working on creating these versions! I’ll stock them when available. (The melting temperature of beeswax is 64⁰c) It will soften in higher temperatures, but not so much that it liquefies. Will it leak? Unless you are holidaying in Death Valley it won’t melt, so this isn’t anything to worry about. Unlike the plastic squeezy or spray bottles of sun cream, which seem as if they are used up when actually there's loads left in there, but just not enough left to be able to use the squeeze or spray function with. Another advantage of the tin format is that you can use up every single last drop of sunscreen. Or, if you have approximately one million containers already lying around the house and can’t possibly find a use for one more, you can put it in the recycling. What’s the advantage of that? Well, you can reuse the tin once you’ve finished with it, I’ve found it makes a good travel soap dish, but obviously, the possibilities of reuse are only limited to your imagination. This sunscreen is very moisturising, so you can use it as a moisturiser if you’ve run out or as an after sun to preserve your tan, less products used means less to carry around too. (The stronger the factor the stronger the ingredients too, so factor 50 could potentially be more irritating to the skin than lower factors if the sun cream has an ingredient you react to in it.) As I've mentioned above, the ingredients in Shade are also not harmful to marine life, so swim away! Good for sensitive skin, only four ingredients, so not much to be irritated by! The ingredients used have been chosen partially for their suitability for those with sensitive skin, as ‘normal’ sunscreens tend to have a lot of potential irritants in their ingredients. If it does, whatever you do, don’t use it and then swim in the sea! (Shade uses non-nano zinc oxide for this reason as it is deemed safe)Ĭheck any old bottles of sunscreen you have lying around to see if they contain any of these ingredients. Any nanoparticles like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide.Any form of microplastic sphere or beads.The ‘HEL List’ by Haereticus Environmental Laboratory points out the ingredients which are the most harmful to marine environments. Many of the ingredients used by the leading (or your average) sunscreen brands have been found to be implicated in coral bleaching, and have a very detrimental effect on the health of the world’s reefs. This narrow vision of purpose and design has unfortunately led to unintended environmental consequences. This isn’t always the case with sunscreens including lots of man-made ingredients, as whilst they are very effective at protecting you from the sun’s rays, anything that happens to the ingredients afterwards isn’t really considered. The ingredients of Shade are all-natural, which means they are biodegradable and unlikely to hang around in the environment when the sunscreen washes off you. They are also disposed of quite regularly ‘on the go’ whilst at the beach for example, which often lacks recycling bins. We know the issues there, so the only thing to add is that sunscreen bottles aren’t often recycled, as they are often made out of a mixture of types of plastics and are unlikely to be cleaned out before being put in the bin. ‘Normal’ sunscreen pretty much all comes in plastic packaging. *My preferred environmental stance is floating on my back in the sea like an ocean sun fish, although it could also be basking on the beach reptile-style… There is lots of info for this product, so much so that I’ve added a FAQ at the bottom of the page, so check it out for all the answers to your 'burning' questions. Shade has a coconutty scent to add to the holiday feeling too. Made from just 4 ingredients, providing protection without any extra fuss, this sunscreen is suitable for sensitive skin and also reef safe: no nasties that’ll bleach coral in this sunscreen thankfully. It’s the perfect sunscreen for those of us who want to top up on Vitamin D without compromising on skin protection or our environmental stance.* Just the right size for your hand luggage. Choose from a 15ml tester pot or a 100ml tin. Shade™ is a plastic packaging free sunscreen with a SPF 25 rating. With this sunscreen, you can follow that advice, even in the sun. What’s the best way to avoid sun burn? …Stay in the shade.
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