![]() ![]() It is extremely likely that we do not fully understand all the dangers that Oxybenzone currently poses to human beings or the environment. Remember the above scenes as we delve into Oxybenzone use in cosmetics today. DDT should never have been approved for use in the global agricultural industry and many people paid a steep price for that mistake. It turned out to be both extremely environmentally toxic and devastatingly toxic to humans and developing fetuses. The point here is that DDT was hailed as a scientific breakthrough and revolutionary way of preventing malaria and protecting crops. Especially pregnant mothers, newborns (birth defects) and in particular, young girls who when found to have been exposed to DDT before puberty were 5 times more likely to develop breast cancer than those who had not been. In 1972 DDT was finally banned due to severe and horrible effects on people and the environment. This was to emphasize and/or illustrate how safe the chemical was “thought to be” for human beings. To illustrate the above, here is a video from the 1940s where school children are being sprayed with DDT (An extremely toxic pesticide) at a local swimming pool. We truly rely on government bodies to protect us from potentially harmful chemicals that industry may wish to use, but this doesn’t always work out correctly. We generally assume that if the USFDA has approved a chemical ingredient for use, then it is safe for us to buy and use. Įvery day we are faced with choices as to what to eat, what to put on our skin and what to buy. In 2019 the USFDA stated that it needs more safety information for the following active sunscreen ingredients (cinoxate, dioxybenzone, ensulizole, homosalate, meradimate, octinoxate, octisalate, octocrylene, padimate O, sulisobenzone, oxybenzone, avobenzone). It has remained at this level since 2013, but is now under USFDA review due to mounting evidence of toxicity towards coral reefs. In 2013 the use of Oxybenzone in cosmetics was capped at 6% of the total ingredient volume by the USFDA due to growing safety concerns. As stated earlier, you can find it in over 70% of sunscreens sold in the USA today. It was hailed as a very important achievement in the preventative war on skin cancer and became widely distributed in sunscreen products.
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