Hello, hello, it's Brooke DeVard, and you're listening to the Naked Beauty Podcast.

Today's topic could not be more important, and it could not be more important to me personally,

because I've been on such a sunscreen journey this year. One, because I've had to wear

mineral sunscreen for the past two months, because my dermatologist has suggested it while I'm dealing

with some skin healing. But I've also just moved to a climate that is constantly sunny, so I've been

trying lots of sunscreens and using lots of sunscreens, so I had an opportunity to interview Brian

Barron on the podcast. Now, Brian Barron is the director of Research for Paulus Choice skincare,

and he knows so much about skincare. I mean, encyclopedic knowledge about skincare, we did a whole

episode together, but I wanted to take out of that episode a little mini excerpt on sunscreen

specifically, and I wanted to ask him specifically, what is the difference between a mineral sunscreen

and a chemical sunscreen? And skincare is one of those product categories where there's a lot of

confusion and misinformation, and some of that is because they do not make it easy for the consumer

to understand what's happening or what some of these terms mean, so I'm really grateful to have

someone that can break it down and make it easy and accessible. Now, for me, when it comes to mineral

versus chemical sunscreen, I will share where I stand. I tend to opt for chemical sunscreens,

and that is because chemical sunscreens tend to blend better with a melanated skin. This is

something that we get into more detail in the mini episode, but it's formulated without saying

meaning that I do not have to worry about is this fully rubbed in or not. Now, as we all know,

you have to reapply sunscreen consistently throughout the day, every two hours if you're in the sun,

and sometimes I am out all day and it's sunny all day, especially in the summer months. So,

if I'm applying sunscreen on the go in the car, I need to know that my sunscreen is going to be

all the way rubbed in that I'm not walking around looking like a Casper the Ghost. I don't have a

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