Oxybenzone
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes
3 statements about Oxybenzone, every show
David Friedberg warns common chemical sunscreen ingredients act as endocrine disruptors
“Oxybenzone. I don't use any products with oxybenzone. That's like the most common sunscreen ingredient. Octinoxate is the other one. Homo salate and the parabens. All of those product categories. Which are the most common products used in sunscreen. They're ab…”
In 2005, every US chemical sunscreen relied on oxybenzone
“What I also found is that every single chemical formula in the country relied on oxybenzone for its efficacy.”
Mass sunscreen brands relied on oxybenzone purely to keep costs down
“What I learned was oxybenzone is not the only way, it's the most inexpensive way. And again, going back to most SPF was a mass product, and mass products are, you know, as inexpensive as possible. It turned out that there was a counterpart, avabenzone, that co…”