California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance SPF 30+ Review

Is there anything softer and more pleasant to touch than a baby's skin? Whether a California sun beauty from the Golden State, or from anywhere else, babies the world over give their parents and others alike very great pleasure, if only from simply touching and feeling their skin.

Unfortunately, because man continues to ruin the naturally-filtering sunscreen that is the atmosphere, people the world over now have to worry about saving their skin from the sun's cancer-causing ultra-violet radiation. Combine such peril and its attendant vexation with the great pleasure parents receive from the unequaled softness of their baby's skin and their desire to do everything notwithstanding death to protect their baby, and what you get is businessmen who don't necessarily have your baby's best interest in mind when capitalizing on the state of affairs.

Enter the commercializing of the unstandardized, largely unregulated, toxic chemical-infiltrated, baby sunscreen lotion market. But, a select few baby sunscreen products, including California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance SPF ( sun protection factor ) 30+, hasn't, exactly, gone the way the majority of the baby sunscreen market have, and deserve a second look. That is if you feel you must use sunscreen on your baby.

So, are there any baby sunscreen applications that are considered wholly safe or at least considerably safer than the Coppertones, Banana Boats, Bull Frogs and Nuetrogenas of the world? Environmental Working Group scrutinized and analyzed everything under the sun on nearly a thousand brand-name sunscreen products and rated California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance SPF30+ very good.

To summarize, California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance is one such curative, if you will, to the ailing, under the weather, highly hazardous-to-health sunblocks aforementioned, and for which the pharmaceutical and medicine companies Shering-Plough, Sun, Chattem, and Johnson & Johnson shower much of the globe.

Take a look at what the consumer watchdog organization, Environmental Working Group (EWG), concluded in its study of sunscreens on the U.S. market, and notice where the U.S. government is failing its people, and how the giant pharmaceutical and medicine companies take advantage of that loophole:

"Our analysis found that 7 percent of high SPF sunscreens (SPF of at least 30) protect only from sunburn (UVB radiation), and do not contain ingredient combinations known to protect from UVA, the sun rays linked to skin damage and aging, immune system problems, and potentially skin cancer. FDA does not require that sunscreens guard against UVA radiation."¹

One of the great ironies of this sad state of affairs for today's babies is both the FDA and the makers of the most popular and the majority of the baby sunscreens on the market, the giant pharmaceutical companies, are largely run by men and women from the baby boomer age.

California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance SPF 30+ -What's So Great and Different About It? ( Part I )

"What's so great and different about California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance SPF 30+," you ask. Let's start with what it's meant to do, at least what the public believes sunscreen is doing, since many sunscreen manufacturers are claiming their sunscreen is doing what it isn't doing: sunscreen is to effectively screen or protect against the sun's skin-burning, skin-damaging, early-aging and cancer-causing ultra-violet (UV) radiation. In order to do so, two things need to happen: protect against ultra-violet radiation emitted in the UVA band; protect against ultra-violet radiation emitted in the UVB band.

Because of the scattering and reflecting effect the singular active ingredient in California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance SPF 30+, (highly micronized) titanium dioxide, has on both UVA and UVB subdivisions of the ultraviolet electromagnetic spectrum of sunlight, yes it effectively protects against the sun burns, skin damage early aging, and cancer the sun's radiation can cause.

California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance SPF 30+ -What's So Great and Different About It? ( Part II )This, also, leads to the other reason that'll be covered in this brief article as to why California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance SPF 30+ is comparatively great or better than most every other baby sunscreen sold on the U.S. market: the difference between the ingredient or combination of ingredients that scatter and reflect the sun's rays and energy and ingredients that absorb the sun's rays and energy.

Relatively few sunscreens on the market, including California Baby Sunscreen Lotion No Fragrance SPF 30+, use an ingredient or combination of ingredients that scatter and reflect the sun's rays and energy as the screen in sunscreen. The majority of the baby sunscreens use ingredients that absorb the sun's rays and energy. Why is this difference important?

In a nutshell, when a sunscreen absorbs the sun's energy, it's much more likely that same potentially damaging energy is then transferred to the skin. In turn, a greater possibility exists the aforementioned detrimental effects will occur in or to a person. When a sunscreen scatters and reflects the sun's energy, that energy isn't transferred to the skin. Therefore, there's less possibility of someone experiencing the damaging effects of the sun's radiation. ²' ³

Sunscreen Appraisal

In conclusion, while California Baby Sunscreen Lotion SPF 30+ is reviewed in a somewhat favorable light here, for many persons it's only seen as one of the better sunscreens in amongst the lot of evil sunscreens, as a whole. Primarily, this is because the jury is still out on the special considerations nano-particles, such as what the size of the Titanium Dioxide is that's used in California Baby Sunscreen Lotion, present relative to health effects, and so forth.

You could, also, consider the more highly recommended Soleo/Wyland Sunscreen Organic Chemical Free Sunscreen SPF 30+. Click here to take a look at why EWG recommends the Soleo brand, including this zinc-based baby sunscreen, over all other sunscreens.

While all of this may be informative to you to a greater or lesser degree, if you feel you must use sunscreen on your baby, you're encouraged to do your own research, so that you can form your own informed opinion on all things relative to baby sunscreens, and so forth.