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Yeah, Korean skincare is lightyears ahead of the US and this is one of the reasons. The FDA has held up sunscreen ingredients for a long time. This is good news!
This is the same country that encourages tanning beds for children.
Are you talking about Korea or the US? I wouldn't be shocked if the answer is both.
This is still really good news for skin care and sun protection in the US.
US. RFK wants kids to look like old wallets by 16.
At least now we will have more access to better sun protection!
I remember tanning beds being super popular with my peers when I was a teen. The popularity seems to be rising again along with the skinny jeans and heroin chic look.
The most advanced sunscreen on the market is La Roche Posay's UVmune which have a proprietary ingredient called Mexoryl 400. This blocks ultra long UVA (380 to 400 nm) which penetrates deepest into the skin and makes up 30% of the UV radiation that reaches us. It is the primary culprit behind deep cellular damage, skin sagging, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation spots like melasma.
The UVmune line contains Bemotrizinol but it also has several other UV filters including Mexoryl 400, so it cannot be sold in the US. If you want to get it in the US you have to import it from Europe. Could be worth it if you're interested in wrinkling a bit slower. It can be purchased at Soin en Nature.
As a dude so I try to keep it simple, though I know most dudes just use body lotion on their face as I once did. I combine this sunscreen with a retinol product and Korean aloe gel and have been happy with the results overall. Undid some of the accelerated aging I experienced during the pandemic.
Also a dude, also a fan of La Roche Posay’s UVmune. I live on the surface of the sun, USA, and I would prefer to not look like an old leather chair by the end of the decade.
This stuff is great and quick to add in a morning routine. Do it gents, the sun is more damaging than you think.
PS it’s pretty cheap on French beauty hub.
You can smear all the chemicals you want, but the real solution is covering skin with summer clothing, hats.
Are the long term effects of these compounds known? Of course not. DHA was tested and safe in sunscreens until it wasn't.
Definitely on the covering skin, or be like me and hide from the sun like a cave dweller.
My understanding is the 25+ years of data (admittedly assuming I remember correctly) in Europe shows it is safe. Maybe the new chemical at least, can’t remember on the UVmune compounds. However, I trust EU testing far more than anything coming out of the US.
I didn't realize there were so many anti-sunscreen folk on Lemmy lol
I know right? Did not expect
Are they endocrine disruptors though?
That is bad by the way.
they dont contain BPA.
Bemotrizinol is not an endocrine disruptor. Why are you pushing this everywhere instead of looking into this yourself?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12317922/
It sure sounds like one. I will look it up at some point, but I don't take the government's word for it, because I wasn't born yesterday, as you seem to have been here.
You’ve completely lost the point that the FDA isn’t the first governing body to approve this ingredient and their approval of it doesn’t mean I think it’s more safe.
This has been used in other countries for decades. There’s a lot of research on it out there. Stop pushing conspiracy theories for things that help reduce cancer.
Fuck all the way off on dismissing toxics as "conspiracy theories" as if our governments protect us. What fucking world do you live in?
In truth, you lost all credibility with that dumbass comment.
You're the one demanding others do research for you while simultaneously casting doubt.
The info is out there, I linked you a reputable study, and you're more content to spread fear than actually learn about it.
I only expressed my own distrust. I don't give a shit what you do, I don't trust the government, or corpo mercenary science outfits, because I wasn't born yesterday.
And I am sharing my opinion. Why do you care so much? How dare someone not take the government at their word? GTFO I would say if one communicated that to me.
Yeah now you're just being an asshole.
Creams will not reverse ageing. You know what reverses aging? Nothing.
Methoxypropylamino Cyclohexenylidene Ethoxyethylcyanoacetate
If you want to smear that compound with a reactive cyano group on your skin, good luck.
You know what else has a cyano group? Cyanocobalamin, which you may recognize as vitamin B12.
Lots of pseudoscience and baseless fearmongering online. Please try not to propagate it.
Tretinoin reverses the appearance of aging. It's efficacy was established by decades of multi-center, double-blind, vehicle-controlled human trials, supplemented by reproducible histological/microscopic evidence. It's use is supported by the gold standard of and most heavily scrutinized dermatologic evidence in the field of topical skincare.
It's not good news because no one is regulating shit.
Scammers will claim to be selling this knowing US consumers won't ask questions if they expect it to be different. Some jackass will just use cooking oil and sell it for $20 a can.
If we got Korean quality sunscreen, yeah, that'd be great.
But if you think that's what's happening here....
You can get Asian stuff which already have a trusted reputation.
With no other side effects than, what? Mimicking your bodies hormones? The name sure sounds like that's the case knowing what I know about sunscreen from Consumer Reports.
There's a lot of information about this ingredient out there since it's been used outside of the US for decades now.
I'd rather risk using sunscreen than risk sun exposure.
Endocrine disuptors are not the only source of suncsreen.
neither is skin cancer and uv radiation.
As if endocrine disruptors are the only types of sunscreen? Your argument is flawed, and I reject it.
I didn't say they were.
Regardless of how you feel about the FDA, this is a good step in the right direction. Our sunscreen options aren't very good comparatively and this will help improve skin protection.
No one is forcing you to use this type of sunscreen.
I am saying we should get some independent analysis of this before accepting it's safe because governments said it was. But what do I know.
No, you are pushing that this particular ingredient is an endocrine disruptor and that even though it's been in use for decades, because the FDA approved it, no one should trust it.
I said I want a reliable source before I would concede it's safe.
Like a child sitting around demanding others do your work for you.
You are demanding others accede to your opinions with only government data to back you up.
I don't use the stupid sunscreen, so it's not my work, if anything, you are the one working here, to hype a corporate interest?
I am specifically pushing back against your assertion that this ingredient is an endocrine disruptor and should be avoided.
I have no vested interest in anything besides better access to health aids and cancer reduction.
I just don't like pseudo-science conspiracy theories being pushed for no apparent reason and with no apparent evidence.
You mischaracterized what I said, and as such, go talk to someone else, you aren't in good faith, and I reject you.
I have eyes.
Another worthless comment. Stop talking to me.
They're all your comments :)