As someone who loves to be outside a stack — like , alotlot — I ’m always bet for secure sunscreens that do n’t contain a smorgasbord of chemicals . Many mineral sunscreens lead you pasty white or smelling risible or feeling like Viscount St. Albans ( both in the friedandthe oily sense ) . Some sunblock are like the serve intellectual nourishment in the in-between aisle of the memory board — they look good on the shelf , but once you give the fixings listing a glance - over , you feel like you ’re in skill class .
At some point you lead off to wonder : Is it safer to forego sun protection altogether , or to surface your skin with a cocktail of chemical ?
One of my go - to sites is theEnvironmental Working Group ’s peel Deep Sunscreen Guide , an annually updated database of nigh every sunblock on the market ( 257 brands and over 1,800 Cartesian product and numeration ) . you could search up your favorite sunscreen and see how it ranks on EWG ’s musical scale of toxicity . immature ikon ( showing ranks of 0 to 2 ) indicate depleted hazard ; red icons ( showing ranks of 7 to 10 ) point high hazard . Not amazingly , you need to be as green as potential .
Goddess Garden ’s natural sunscreens are as light-green as they issue forth ( chink out theirEWG scorecard ; they were rated one of the sound beach and sport sunscreens for 2012 ) . And how could I resist the name ? But I needed a sunblock that went beyond the garden , and into the betty — it had to be light enough for casual wearable , but also tough enough for surfboarding , swimming , climb , and even whitewater kayaking .
The company send me a few of their merchandise to try and after a month of spending my summer outside , I ’m happy to report : No sunburns , no peeling , and a giveaway of my favoriteGoddess Gardensunscreens to one lucky winner !
I ’ve used Goddess Garden ’s sunscreen on long days in the garden and lazy daytime at the lake , but last weekend , I at last put it to the existent test : Coloma , California . Sunny afternoons soar over 100 ° degree Fahrenheit . ultraviolet light rays intensified by 13 miles on the South Fork American River . Class III rapids smack me in the boldness .
I used Goddess Garden’sSPF 30 Facial Sunscreenall over my face and theirSPF 30 raw Sunscreen Sprayon my arms .
The facial sunblock feel like a normal moisturizer ; easy to employ , lightweight , sheer . I really could n’t feel ( or see or smell ) it once I rubbed it in . The sunscreen atomizer was non - greasy and did n’t leave my hands feeling sticky after go for . ( If you ’re that person who always get stuck rub in someone else ’s sunscreen on their back , you screw how annoying sticky hand finger . )
My nose and cheeks are infamous for ferment ruby and chapped after a foresighted day in the body of water , but amazingly , they stayed protected through the entire 13 Roman mile of whitewater . Even after swim through a surgical incision of Class III rapid ! I reapplied halfway through our river run ( because no matter what any sunscreen say , it is water - resistive only to a certain point — and never in truth rainproof ) .
By the next day , you could n’t even tell that I ’d been outside the whole weekend , sweltering under the blazing Sunday . Goddess Garden hold up impressively !
For compare , I also made my fiancé slather on some of my sunscreen . This is a bozo who was born with Norse parentage . He burns quicker than you may fry an eggs . He was sceptical about a “ instinctive ” sunscreen , consider that the only sunscreen that worked for him ( other than full body armor ) was a wooden-headed , goopy , chemical substance - laden brand that you had to scrub off in the exhibitioner . But he dutifully put on a layer of Goddess Garden ’s facial sun blocker ( ears and cervix include ) and whaddya know ? He was still as livid as can be the next mean solar day , through all the Dominicus and sweat and splash . We have a convert .
So you know that Goddess Garden act upon . But that ’s only the beginning . Goddess Garden is also made with 92 % organic ingredients — the highest certified constitutive contentedness available in a sun blocker . Only the zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are not organic , because mineral can not be certified constitutional . They ’re also non - nano speck , meaning they wo n’t absorb into your pelt . The mineral act as an invisible carapace to physically block ultraviolet radiation rays from your tegument . The sunscreens are also biodegradable and ocean - friendly , so you may browse your favourite reef severance and not concern about damaging the eco - organization below .
You get all this in the form of Goddess Garden’sSPF 30 Facial SunscreenandSPF 30 rude Sunscreen Spray(total value $ 40 ) , which one prosperous victor will receive !
The giveaway will end at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time on Friday , August 3 , 2012 . achiever will be drawn at random and announced the following week . Good luck !
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Update : A big thanks to everyone who entered!This giveaway is now shut . The winner has been announcedhere .
