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Showing posts with label safe for corals sunscreen. Show all posts
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Monday, July 2, 2018

Why use mineral based sunscreen?



Hawaii is banning sunscreens containing chemicals like oxybenzone and octinoxate. octinoxate on label is octyl methoxycinnamate.

This is what happens to corals -
" "When they come across oxybenzone, they just encase themselves in their own skeleton, effectively killing them," he says. They sink to the bottom of the ocean and die."