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Found: The Best Drugstore Sunscreens, According To The EWG

Emma Loewe
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June 29, 2017
Emma Loewe
mbg Sustainability + Health Director
By Emma Loewe
mbg Sustainability + Health Director
Emma Loewe is the Senior Sustainability Editor at mindbodygreen and the author of "Return to Nature: The New Science of How Natural Landscapes Restore Us."
Photo by Aleksandra Jankovic
June 29, 2017

As gratifying as it may be to shop for sunscreens online, inspecting the ingredient list and reading review after review before settling on one that checks all your boxes isn't always possible. (If you do have the time to order one in advance, this Coola Sunscreen Stick earned a top rating from EWG.) Life has a tendency to get in the way of plans, and sometimes a pre-beach-day drugstore stop is inevitable. That's where the Environmental Working Group's "in a pinch" sunscreen list comes in.

The watchdog organization's annual sunscreen guide ranks thousands of products on the market based on their ingredients and ability to deliver on sun-protection promises. This year, they've further funneled this list down to the sunscreens that are also widely available on the cheap.

The eight products they recommend all sell for $10 to $20 at chains like Target, Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS. They've also earned EWG's stamp of approval for their ingredients lists, which feature good-for-you (and the planet) additions like zinc and titanium dioxide while avoiding the nasties like hormone-disrupting oxybenzone.

"All of the products listed get a green, or highest rating, by EWG—which means that they are free of hormone disruptors and irritating or allergenic ingredients. These eight sunscreens have a similarly good safety profile and UV filtering according to our analysis," explains EWG senior analyst Sonya Lunder. "We wanted to provide consumers with a handy list of green-rated and affordable sunscreens they could pick up at a store on their way to the beach or a pool party or BBQ."

Keep the list bookmarked for those frantic summer days. Your skin—and wallet—will thank you.

Get more information about the EWG's criteria for safe sunscreen here.

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