sunscreen without all the chemicals?

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Hi as the sun is with us this week, it caught me off guard i only have Johnsons spf50 for my dd. Having looked at the ingredients, it's not very nice stuff to put on her beautiful nearly new skin.

Can anyone recommend an alternative (organic?) cream with SPF 50 which is a little less harsh?

Thanks,

Should add she's 10 mo and I'm loathe to put anything on her skin, but seems that not putting anything on is a bit irresponsible. She does wear long sleeves, sun hat (which she constantly pulls off) legs covered etc but I'm worried about her face particularly.

There have been a couple of threads about sun screen without chemicals / for allergy sufferers with great recommendations. Will have a search for you.

I would say that if she is only 10mths then I would only put cream on her if she is going to be in the sun. You can keep her in the shade most of the time, get a sun shade for the pram etc.

Here

www.greenpeople.co.uk/organicsun.aspx

Thanks. Green people looks good but only up to spf25.

You will be fine with spf25. Higher than that does not bring much additional protection.

SPF 15 filters 93% of the suns rays, SPF 30 filters 97%.

Apply every couple of hours and keep your baby out of direct sunlight as much as possible. My DC have never had sunburn and I have never used more that spf 25.

We use badger factor 30. No chemical absorbers at all. Iirc green people does have one... Badger's active ingredient is zinc oxide so it acts as a barrier. We've used it for the last 3 years with no problems and you can get it in the uk now - we used to have to order SPF 30 from the US because they only had SPF 15 here. I'd also recommend the hat and light shirt advice. The more you can keep covered the better