Blue Beauty: Beyond Green & Clean

A Vanu Health book on plastic, sunscreen filters, mineral ingredients and the claims printed on the bottle.

Some ingredients commonly found in sunscreen harm coral in laboratory studies. The wider effect on reefs in the real world is still poorly understood. Several places have restricted those ingredients anyway. “Mineral” does not automatically mean ocean-safe, because particle size and coating matter. And an ocean-related claim needs evidence behind it, whatever the bottle says.

Blue beauty asks three questions that can be checked: what happens to plastic, whether the ingredients that wash off have documented harm to marine life, and whether an ocean-related claim is backed by evidence. Each section starts with a plain answer and then shows the evidence. Where the science is still open, the book says so.

For general information only. Not medical, legal or environmental advice.