Experts Share The ‘Cancer-Causing’ Sunscreens To Avoid This Summer: ‘Absorbing All Those Harmful Chemicals’

The American Cancer Society and most doctors agree: wearing sunscreen is one of the most important (if not the single most important) step you can take to prevent skin cancer from UV rays. Sunscreen shouldn’t just be applied daily, it should be re-applied every two hours, or sooner if you are exposed to water. Some social media content has suggested that the best course of action for your health is to avoid sunscreen altogether — but nothing could be further from the truth, according to experts.

With that said, there is also more talk than ever before about the ingredients in our sunscreen, with an emphasis on the importance of avoiding certain ingredients that may be harmful.

Kyle Fitzgerald, a clean-living expert, shared the sunscreens and ingredients to avoid due to their ‘harmful chemicals’ and potentially ‘cancer-causing’ ingredients. There’s still a lot of misinformation out there (including that sunscreen can actually cause cancer, which is not proven to be true). But if you are interested in buying safer sunscreen formulations this summer, here are two sunscreen ingredients that you may want to skip.