I noted that Blue Lizard, unlike other fragrance-free baby sunscreens I tested, truly had no discernable scent.

Get the right sun protection this summer and all year with the Blue Lizard Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen Lotion SPF 50+ (5 fl oz). We wrote more about nanoparticles and the concerns around them here, but the gist is that if nanoparticles were absorbed into the skin that would be a reason for legitimate health concerns.Saturated fatty acids have a linear structure that can stack nice and tight and hence they are normally solid at room temperature.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Finally, I sealed the bottle or tube in a zip-top plastic bag and tossed it in my daughter’s diaper bag to check if it would spill. Wang, chair of the Skin Cancer Foundation photobiology committee and director of dermatologic oncology at the Hoag Family Cancer Institute, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, in Newport Beach, California; Michelle Wong, PhD, founder of Lab Muffin Beauty Science, a cosmetic chemist based in Sydney, Australia; and Dr. Some testers either didn’t notice it or enjoyed its short-lived medicinal smell (“reminds me of childhood,” one tester said), whereas others—in particular those who only needed to purchase sunscreen for themselves instead of a household—refused to consider it for long-term use despite giving its feel and appearance positive marks, all because of the “hospital-esque odor. We found that Aveeno Baby Continuous Protection Sensitive Skin Sunscreen Lotion SPF 50 took significantly longer to rub in compared with most other physical sunscreens we’ve tried, and it consistently left a white cast.Usually, it is the sunscreens with chemical UV filters that sting the eyes, so I’m not sure why this did, but it did.