I've felt for years that sunscreens filled with chemicals are not the answer and my gut warned me that the product itself may be cancer causing.  Today, while listening to a teleseminar, it was confirmed.  Studies are now showing that commercial sunscreens may be cancer causing depending on their ingredients. The teleseminar was hosted by The Raw Divas (www.therawdivas.com) and can be heard by following this link :

http://attendthisevent.com/?eventid=13085445

Lots of really really valuable tips about our bodies, relationship to the sun, our diet and natural sunscreens discussed by Nadine, the co-founder of Living Libations. 

www.livinglibations.com

Or, if you want to go with a commercial product, this site has done all the dirty work in terms of rating products based on what's in them :

The Environmental Working Group 2010 Sunscreen Guide.
http://www.ewg.org/2010sunscreen/best-beach-sport-sunscreens/

I am so grateful people are doing this type of work!

Enjoy the summer ...

anne marie
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It makes more sense when you listen to the interview - link included above.
For example, the FDA will only specify something to have an SPF value when it is synthetic.  However, something like red raspberry oil has a naturally occurring SPF of 25 but because it's not a synthetic product, they can't put that on the label!  There is so much we are not told about that goes into products or the alternatives that could be used, this interview explains some of that ...