Wrinkle Remover and Sunscreen

I've accidentally stumbled on to a fantastic wrinkle remover! Well, nothing “removes” wrinkles, but mine are really smoothed out by this product. Loving Naturals SPF 30 Sunscreen is one of the purest sunscreens you’ll find, made from grape seed oil, coconut oil, and other nut oils, everything non-GMO, with non-micronized zinc-oxide as the active ingredient (and they even increased their particle size recently). You don’t get much volume for your money with this product (purity is costly), so you’d want to use this only on your face. More details on sunscreens in a future post (I’ll only touch this with a very long pole), but generally (for starters) you do not want to use anything that ends in “zone," "zole," or that begins with Octo" or "Octyl" as those chemicals actually make you burn faster and are also absorbed in to your bloodstream. Best to avoid Vitamin A (retinyl palmitate) for now and do not use spray-on or powder sunscreens.

Loving Naturals may not be the greatest solution if you tend to break out, although I do and I’m not having any problems. Another sunscreen to try, this could be your basic pick for all-over coverage, is anything in the Badger line. Badger contains titanium dioxide (safe when non-nano) in addition to zinc oxide and the product uses micronized particles only (although it does have a considerably smaller particle size than Loving Naturals). The Whole Foods here in Franklin is very smart. They have done their research. Instead of giving you 5, 10 or 20 sunscreens to chose from, they only stock 4 or 5 from the Badger line.

Loving Naturals and Badger sunscreens are quite white on your skin because of the zinc-oxide base. Try waiting 5 minutes and rubbing it in. I add a little colored mineral powder over it so it doesn't look pasty.  Make sure the mineral powder has a micron size of 10 (coarse) or greater! Otherwise you are inhaling the particles into your lungs.

PS: Loving Naturals sunscreen can also double as a safe diaper rash ointment. Generally the diaper rash in the stores has nano-sized zinc oxide (undisclosed) and you don’t want to experiment with that on your baby!