Sunscreen Lotion Could Harm Environment, Seriously?

Summer is a worth to wait season to travel while enjoy how good it is to make yourself warm under the sun. And while you are doing that, you may have been applied the sunscreen lotion before to avoid the sunburns and make sure that your skin has shields that will always protecting you from the harmful UV rays.

There are many good advantages of sunscreen lotion but surely that we aren't also need to close our eyes from its disadvantages or negative impacts for our environment.

An important thing to considering when using sunscreen is that, you must be sure that the brand you are getting is not only good to protect your skin but it should also have to protect the destinations you are visiting.

How on earth it is possible for sunscreen lotion to harm our environment?

First thing first, have you known that Hawaii's legislation is banning sunscreen with chemicals that can harm coral reefs as the scientists have found? Or what about an oily sea water at the beach where there is not actually spilled oil from a ship or household waste?

And what if I tell you that an oily water could have came from your own skin, the sunscreen lotion?

Label on sunscreen brands that are telling us they are Oxybenzone-Free or Octinoxate-Free don't mean that it is good for environment especially for the reef. The sunscreen itself is still bring the negative impact that may be causing the coral bleaching.

Furthermore, to know which are the best sunscreen lotions that can't be the threats for coral reefs, snorkelsandreefs.com had been listed 11 identified chemical ingredients to avoid where your sunscreen shouldn't be contained with:

1. Oxybenzone
2. Octinoxate
3. 4-methyl benzylidene camphor
4. Ethylparaben
5. Octocrylene
6. Para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA)
7. Methylparaben
8. Triclosan
9. Propylparaben
10. Butylparaben
11. Benzylparaben

Knowing the above facts, I am now thinking about how many sunscreen lotions had been produced with the listed chemical ingredients and how long they had been used before the ban in Hawaii along with how many countries that are still not aware about that information?

Now, traveling is surely not a sin. Spending time under the sun for the tanned exotic skin surely not a mistake. But, what a poor nature we are living in since we keep on ruining it. Poor us!

We keep on believing that we need to prepare the better environment in the future for the next generations even for the unborn children, but in other hands, we are ruining our own world without realizing it.

Read also: What is Surf Camp and Have You Experienced It Once?

Thanks for those who have been researching and publishing about this information to share the awareness with the others. Because they have been contributing a lot to preserve the coral reefs and environment as a whole from destruction.

Last, enjoy your time at the beach and under the sun. But before you are doing it, ensure that you have took a double look of the sunscreen ingredients you are about to buy and use. Let any other parents and friends know about this. A share for this post from you may helps the environment as well.