If you aren't a cosmetic chemist, the skin-care ingredient list on the back of a product label can be a confusing place - and sunscreens are no exception. Mix the tongue-twisting ingredient names ...

HONOLULU— Sunscreens containing two harmful petrochemicals, avobenzone and octocrylene, would be banned from sale in Hawai‘i under a bill passed today by the Hawai‘i Senate. This bill follows a 2018 ...

Chemical sunscreens like Avobenzone absorb ultraviolet (UV) radiation, while physical sunscreens (Titanium Dioxide, Zinc Oxide) reflect or scatter it. Chemical or physical sunscreen? Chemical ...