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Suncream, Natural vs Unnatural Cosmetic Ingredients, and Myths debunked with Cosmetic Chemist Michelle Wong

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The Effects of Sunscreen on Vitamin D Levels

Vitamin D is mostly just directly the action of UV going into your skin and converting that pre-vitamin D into proper vitamin D. So in terms of whether or not you become vitamin D deficient, it seems like if you avoid the sun, that does happen. With sunscreen, we don't apply it on everything. We've got lots of gaps that we leave. There's a lot of parts of your body that probably won't be covered and you'll get enough. And then in terms of the concept of natural sun creams like, oh, this one's really organic. This is a boat in the health food stores. Are they any better than these? I would say no

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