2011 Best of Beauty & Health: John Masters Organics Sunscreen
John Masters Organics’ SPF 30 Natural Mineral Sunscreen ($32)
Even in the dead of winter, sunscreen is a must. While the sun may provide us with many great gifts—essential Vitamin D, warmth and, um, daylight—the ultraviolet radiation it emits can cause skin cancer and premature aging.
In fact, as much as 90 percent of the visible changes that happen to our skin as it ages, such as brown spots and wrinkling, get a kick-start from overexposure to the sun.
But who wants to cut down on exposure by slathering up with toxic chemicals? A 2008 Centers for Disease control study linked sunscreen’s main squeeze, oxybenzone, to cell damage, hormone disruption and allergies.
That doesn’t sound so healthy.
Luckily, we sussed out John Masters Organics SPF 30 Natural Mineral Sunscreen, which has us covered for every day—from the beach to the slopes.
This broad-spectrum lotion contains the mineral oxides of zinc and titanium, both of which score a low hazard risk on the EWG’s Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database.
Plus, the antioxidant and vitamin-rich solution of green tea, jojoba oil and shea butter—packaged in an environmentally friendly glass pump bottle—makes for a pretty awesome daily moisturizer, too.
Every day protection? No problem.
The competition was fierce, but we found the best of the best in eco-beauty and health that remind us why we created EcoStiletto in the first place. With this slate full of amazing hair care, sun care, makeup and sunless tanning products—free of petrochemically derived crap—that work as well for you as they do for the planet, you’ve simply got no more reasons not to switch.
