Desmistificar alegações de que o protetor solar é prejudicial e causa cancro
O verão chegou oficialmente. Numa altura em que muitos europeus trocam os seus computadores e cadeiras de escritório por espreguiçadeiras à beira-mar, o antigo debate sobre o protetor solar persiste na esfera online.
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00:07Summer is officially here, which means that many Europeans will be swapping their computers and desk chairs for beachside sun loungers.
00:14Although sun cream is an essential summer product to avoid burned skin,
00:18every summer posts claiming that sun cream is in fact dangerous spread across social media.
00:24Some online users claim that sunscreens are dangerous because they contain ingredients like oxybenzone and octinoxate, which are hormone disruptors.
00:35Oxybenzone, octinosate, and these are sunscreen filters.
00:39They're known as chemical filters where the UV rays are absorbed by these filters that 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, it's been blown out of context in some situations.
00:52Sunscreen has been around since the 1930s, set up by L'Oreal, and whatever filters that we have in that timeframe is massively changed.
01:00And 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,
01:07so oxybenzone, otherwise known as benzophenone 3, octinosate, they're not there anymore.
01:13Some online users have alleged that the commercialization of suncream from the 1930s onwards is behind rising skin cancer cases.
01:22This graph shows an alleged correlation between the introduction of sun creams containing certain ingredients with rising skin cancer rates in the state of Connecticut in the US.
01:32However, the Connecticut Public Health Office told you to verify that although the data likely comes from the state's tumor registry,
01:39the text boxes linking rising rates to sun cream products had 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.
