Green Screens

By Mike Gioscia

I woke up this morning with the task of removing a tiny tick from 5th graders face. She was thrilled of course! Just a reminder that Spring has sprung, Summer is coming, and the kids will be out and about for months.

When you stock up on sunscreen and bug spray keep this in mind, ‘Don’t Eat The Sunscreen!’ Anything you rub onto your skin will be absorbed into it, like food particles absorbed during digestion. Sunscreen, bugspray. perfume, deodorant, soap etc., they don’t just ‘go away’ or ‘wash off’.

Just like food, cheaper isn’t better. Know what you are buying and slathering on you and your kids.

Research by the Food and Drug Administration and National Toxicology Program suggests that retinyl palmitate, a form of vitamin A and an ingredient in many sunblocks, may heighten skin cancer risk when used on skin. Now wait a darn minute!!! I’m using the product to prevent such things, am I not? This is just one example of the stuff that may be hiding in your ‘protection’ items.

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