The $30 sunscreens by Hawaiian Tropic and Clinique that might not actually work, according to analysis READ MORE: Doctors slam celebrities for misinformation about sunscreen By Maiya Focht For Dailymail.Com Published: 08:42 EDT, 23 May 2024 | Updated: 08:44 EDT, 23 May 2024 e-mail 3 View comments Sunscreen is one of the best ways you can protect your body against the lifelong harms of the sun's rays. But many sunscreen brands don't actually provide the protection they claim to, according to independent testers.
This means that you could be unwittingly letting cancerous rays into your skin — mistakenly thinking you've been protected by the impenetrable shield of sunscreen. Both drugstore favorites, like Alba and Hawaiian Tropic, and luxury brands, like Dior and Lancôme, have come under scrutiny from regulators, consumers or lawyers for their sun protection claims. Between not providing the amount of sun protection that they claim on their label and making assertions that their product is more resilient than it really is, there's a whole world of products to look out for.
SPF protects against the sun's harmful rays, but many products contain far less of the protective ingredient than is stated on the label, analyses show. 'People place too much trust in high SPF products,' the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit that releases public health reports about a range of products in the US, said on their online guide to sunscreens . This could be partially based on a 2021 stu.
