Sunscreen manufacturers have dropped UV filter oxybenzone en masse in recent years due to its ban in Hawaii and other jurisdictions for purported adverse impacts on coral reefs, associated optics and PR challenges, and lack of clarity from the US Food and Drug Administration on the ingredient’s GRASE status.
EWG’s 2023 Sunscreen Guide: Oxybenzone Use Down, ‘EWG Verified’ Products Up
The Environmental Working Group’s annual sunscreen report finds that one in four products evaluated meet its standards for protection and ingredient avoidance, fairly consistent with the past three years but still worse than 2019. This year, “gold standard” sunscreen products bear the nonprofit’s “Verified” mark.
