335: Top 5 Reasons why you Should Know What's In Your Sunscreen?

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

Business, Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Arts, Management & Marketing, Medicine

4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever thought about what is inside your sunscreen? Do you know the difference between Chemical vs. Mineral Sunscreen? Well, it's time for another Five Minute Friday! In this weeks' episode, I dive right into discussing the newly passed CARES Act and all the new sunscreen rules and regulations! How it will affect businesses, consumers, and the reality behind chemical sunscreens. It is so important to know what we put inside our body, but also on the outside! 90% of our skin aging comes from the sun; therefore, the ingredients in our sunscreens matter. Chemical sunscreens not only damage our health from the topical chemicals but damage the environment as well. We hopefully will see a shift to more mineral sunscreens which are less likely to irritate the skin, give us acne, and are not chalky! Tune in to hear all my thoughts!

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0:00.0	Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K., Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,
0:20.0	and it's time for a five-minute
0:21.4	Friday, and I want to dive right into the new sunscreen rules and regulations that are coming
0:27.6	out and that may impact us all. We are familiar with sunscreen. Of course, we love it. 90% of
0:34.3	your skin aging comes from the sun, sun damage. We have UVA rays which cause aging changes, UVB rays, which cause bad changes like skin cancer
0:44.3	transformations.
0:46.3	And we also have infrared light.
0:48.3	We need to protect ourselves from the sun in order to have beautiful skin and safe skin. Sunscreens traditionally have been very
0:56.8	chemical based and you definitely are going to have some changes coming up in sunscreen packages
1:03.6	this year. Many of our sunscreens that are on the market have ingredients like oxenates
1:09.9	and you might have heard of those long names on the
1:13.3	back of the bottles that are mostly chemical based. Sometimes you'll see mineral-based names
1:19.3	such as zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, but sometimes those can be chalkier. So some chemical
1:26.3	sunscreens are beneficial because they're less chalky.
1:29.0	They soak right in.
1:30.2	But there are concerns about them.
1:32.6	This year, the CARES Act was passed.
1:36.2	It was approved in September of 2021.
1:40.1	That did three main things.
1:41.7	And the CARES Act is actually a coronavirus health aid
1:44.6	Resources Act to provide more funding for coronavirus situations. And somehow, sunscreen got
1:50.8	lumped into this CARES Act. But the first thing it did is it deemed that the current
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