News — sunscreen

As winter is now here, we feel it is super important to educate our community on the importance of wearing sunscreen while Skiing, snowboarding, and in general hanging out in the snow for winter.

There are a lot of sunscreen tubes out there being passed around, some are moving to plastic that can be recycled, and that's great. If you are unsure if your tube can be recycled, just look for the recycle symbol and number, if it is a number 2 (HDPE) you can put it into the kerbside recycling. Keep in mind though it's pretty hard to clean inside a tube ready for recycling, which must get you thinking, will this actually be recycled? And then there are the lids, most lids can not be recycled and off they go into landfill..

It is well known that volcanic eruptions can contribute to ozone layer damage. There has been research released recently on the Tongan volcanic eruption early this year that suggests the water that was shot into the stratosphere from the underwater eruption may have created conditions that contributed to even more damage to our ozone layer.

This is a great step in right direction for sunscreen regulations here in NZ, and is welcomed by us with open arms. We want to reassure our Customers that our products are already fully tested by Eurofuns in Australia to comply to the 10 subject testing requirements and has been from the beginning, so nothing changes for us. For some other sunscreen companies however, it may not be so simple.