How to choose the best sunscreen for your skin -- and the Earth, too
(WorldNews Health)

It`s August and sunny days are in, but two of the top sunscreen ingredients are out. In July, Hawaii became the first state to ban the sale of sunscreens with the chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate, because of the reported damage they cause to coral reefs as they wash off swimmers` bodies in the ocean. `Just three drops of oxybenzone in an Olympic-sized swimming pool is enough to damage coral larvae,` says Nathan Donley, senior scientist for the Center for Biological Diversity. The CDB recently petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban the same ingredients on a national level. Some dermatologists and consumers have preferred sunscreen without those ingredients anyway, using...