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Natural Sunscreen is also known as mineral or physical sunscreen because it uses zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, or a combination of the two to block and reflect the sun’s harmful rays away from your skin.

Many certified natural sunscreen products are also free of other potentially harmful chemicals like parabens and phthalates. Most sunscreens on the drugstore shelves are chemical sunscreens — this means that they use chemicals like oxybenzone and avobenzone to absorb UV rays. FDA research shows that after a single application, the chemicals in sunscreen can be detected in the body at potentially harmful levels.