Debunking claims that sunscreen is harmful and causes cancer

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Debunking claims that sunscreen is harmful and causes cancer  Summer is officially here. While many Europeans have been swapping their computers and desk chairs for beachside sun loungers, the longstanding online debate about sunscreen persists.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/28/debunking-claims-that-sunscreen-is-harmful-and-causes-cancer  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00DEBUNKING FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT SUNCREAM

00:07Summer is officially here, which means that many Europeans will be swapping their computers

00:11and desk chairs for beachside sun loungers.

00:15Although sun cream is an essential summer product to avoid burned skin, every summer

00:19posts claiming that sun cream is in fact dangerous spread across social media.

00:25Some online users claim that sunscreens are dangerous because they contain ingredients

00:30like oxybenzone and octinoxate, which are hormone disruptors.

00:35Oxybenzone, octinosate and these are sunscreen filters, they're known as chemical filters

00:40where the UV rays are absorbed by these filters so it reduces the amount going into the skin.

00:45I know for a fact sunscreens are safe because I know even if there's a slight issue with a filter

00:50it's been blown out of context in some situations.

00:53Sunscreen has been around since the 1930s, set up by L'Oreal and whatever filters that we have

00:58in that time frame is massively changed. And that's based on research, based on new data coming out.

01:03And really a lot of these sunscreens, if you look at the big brands, those filters,

01:08so oxybenzone, otherwise known as benzophenone 3, octinosate, they're not there anymore.

01:13Some online users have alleged that the commercialization of sun cream from the 1930s onwards

01:19is behind rising skin cancer cases. This graph shows an alleged correlation between the introduction

01:25of sun creams containing certain ingredients with rising skin cancer rates in the state of Connecticut

01:32in the US. However, the Connecticut Public Health Office told you to verify that although the data

01:37likely comes from the state's tumour registry, the text boxes linking rising rates to sun cream products

01:44had been added in afterwards and were not from their data.

01:47There is no data that sunscreen causes skin cancer. That is not true at all.

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