Most Sunscreens are affected by UV Even though zinc is the best active ingredient to reduce UV absorption into the skin, when exposed sunlight, organic materials, like zinc, decompose on the skins surface and release free radicals that work to kill cell membranes. The science behind 3rd Rock SunBlock's...
Meet Guerry (pronounced “Gary”) Grune. Surfer. PhD (Chemical Engineering). He’s surfed the world’s meccas—Hawaii, Australia, Costa Rica, Japan. In fact, life for Guerry might have been one long (part-time) endless summer if it hadn’t been for three events that led him to create 3rd Rock—and change sunscreen history forever. The...
From Interview with Susan Rankin, Mom of 3, Wife and Nurse, North Carolina I came across Nutrasporin Silver Gel ointment from 3rd Rock Essentials earlier this year. I was attracted to it because of its natural healing properties, and that fact that it is non-antibiotic and non-petroleum. It worked great on...
Does 3rd Rock Use Nano Zinc? Nano is controversial – we don’t use nano sized ZnO because we are concerned with the potential for absorption into the blood stream through the skin pores. There is some body of evidence that this can occur and if so it may present issues...
3rd Rock SunBlock SPF 35 Natural Organic Zinc Sunscreen Sunscreens fit into one of two categories – mineral and chemical with the most common ones on the US market being in the latter. These products typically include a combination of two to six active ingredients (oxybenzone, avobenzone, octisalate, octocrylene, homosalate and octinoxate)...
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