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How to Make Natural Homemade Sunscreen. 3rd Rock: America's Safest Sunscreen. Product Description 3rd Rock: America’s Safest Sunscreen Why is 3rd Rock America’s safest sunscreen? Well, for one thing, the original formula of Dr. Guerry Grune’s 3rd Rock Sunblock Lotion SPF 30+ is formulated exclusively from food-grade, edible sunscreen ingredients. Consequently, it prevents skin damage caused by both the sun and the toxic synthetic compounds included in a long list of sunscreen ingredients to avoid.sunscreen ingredients to avoidIn fact, like any traditional sunblock lotion, 3rd Rock SPF 30+ offers UVA protection, and it prevents aging, wrinkling and skin cancer as well, if not better, than synthetic-based sunscreens.

Listen to Guerry speak about his product line~ Read more about the science and the inventor behind this product. What Makes 3rd Rock America’s Safest Sunscreen? 3rd Rock Sunscreen Ingredients: *Please note that first class shipping takes 5 to 7 days whereas Priority takes 1 to 3 Be Advised: 3rd Rock Sunblock poses no threat if ingested. How to Make Homemade Sunscreen (SPF 30-40 and good for your skin!) On my quest to use all natural cosmetic products, I knew that sunscreen was going to be a necessary product to make. My skin often gets itchy just from using the store-bought kinds, and it leaves me feeling icky. Not to mention, it is usually polluting a water body.

You also want to be on the lookout for the endocrine disruptor, oxybenzone, used in many store bought sunscreens. Anyways, a few weeks ago I spent all afternoon in the park with my boyfriend and his family. It wasn’t a very hot or super sunny day but I didn’t have any sunscreen on because I hadn’t made any yet. Well- there’s no need to decide! It costs $7.46 to make 6 oz of this sunscreen. If you are acne prone, this sunscreen is not non-comedogenic and it could cause you to break out.

Before I started making my own cosmetics I had no idea that oils could have natural SPF in them. So if you leave the zinc oxide out- this recipe will naturally have an SPF of about 20 or so. Ta da! This recipe is adapted from Real Food RN: How to Heal a Sunburn in Less Than 24 Hours. If you want to know how to heal a sunburn in just under 24 hours, I’ve got a trick for you. All it takes is two simple, real foods. In fact, because of this trick, I rarely even admit to having a sunburn. In my family, we now call it “turning pink.”

That’s because our skin never peels, and instead our “sunburns” fade to nice tans. Conversations go like this. FAMILY FRIEND: “Oh, it looks like you got a sunburn today!” We’re usually met with disbelieving looks, but oh well. We already break “the rules” by not wearing sunscreen. But we still enjoy the sun! One of the ways we do it is by having this trick for how to heal a sunburn up our sleeves. How to Heal a Sunburn in Less Than 24 Hours How to Heal a Sunburn: STEP ONE Apply raw apple cider vinegar to your burn as soon as you get home. This immediately cools the skin. (Where to buy raw apple cider vinegar.) How to Heal a Sunburn: STEP TWO About a half hour later, apply tallow balm from grass-fed cows to your sunburned skin and rub it in. That’s it? Natural Sunscreen Ingredients You Can Put On Your Skin. The following is a guest post by Katie Kimball of KitchenStewardship.

Thanks, Katie! I was totally not prepared for the last holiday weekend. We traveled to a lake in mid-Michigan to visit family, and I was expecting cold weather. I checked to make sure everyone had sweatshirts and considered bringing a knit cap for the baby in case we took a long walk. It had been in the 30s in our area overnight at the end of the week and it’s always colder three hours north, plus it’s almost always cruddy weather on Memorial Day weekend up there. And then it was gorgeous. And everyone wanted to swim. I was dumbstruck, realizing I hadn’t even thought to pack sunscreen! Luckily on that front, I have tubes in the diaper bag, snack bag and van glove box all the time, so no lobster skin for the fair-skinned, pasty white Kimball kids. As much as I embrace my kids showing a little skin and soaking up the Vitamin D, that much direct sunlight, midday, early in the season does make me nervous.

The other good news? Scratch Mommy – Life, From Scratch DIY Sunscreen - Easy To Make (and why YOU need this recipe)! - Scratch Mommy - Life, From Scratch. Confession: I have been sitting on this sunscreen recipe post (and not sharing it with all of you) for a loooong time. Whew! I feel better getting that out. So, just exactly why have I been sitting on this post? Well, you know that I keep it real with all of you. So, here goes… I tried my hand at multiple DIY sunscreen recipes last summer. So, being ‘Scratch’ Mommy, off I went into my laboratory to create my own. So, why was I holding onto this recipe for so long? Well, after the first attempt I was shocked. As many of you know, I have my own Scratch Mommy Skincare line, so I didn’t even think about putting it onto the blog…it went straight into my shop so I could offer it to all of you. Selfish? Perhaps. Please, allow me to further explain… It wasn’t until I published my easy and effective DIY deodorant recipe (with NO baking soda) that I realized just how many people LOVE the idea of DIYs, but simply don’t have either the… **Time **Money **Materials **Patience **Desire …to make these DIYs.