Neil Freiman

Sunscreen is regulated as an over-the-counter drug.

It requires human clinical data for each active ingredient to make sure it's safe and get it into these bottles or spray cans.

Over in Europe, it's a cosmetic.

It doesn't require...

human trials.

So they have a lot more options to play with.

And that's why you're seeing Americans have complained for many years, including AOC in a very popular tweet back in 2023.

She called attention to this issue, which maybe most people have not thought about.

It's like, why is South Korea and Asia have incredible sunscreen options and Europe as well?

And we're over here with just a limited number of options and they don't even work that well.

Yeah, the thing about sunscreen is it doesn't just have to work, but it also has to look good.

And a lot of the mineral-based sunscreens, which dominate the American market, leave white streaks on your body, which I don't care about because I'll just go to the beach and just put globs of white stuff on my face.

I'm like, okay, so I'm protected from the sun.

It's fine.

But for a lot of people, they care about how they look, which is very understandable.

So that's why this particular ingredient, which has been vetted, experts say it's safe and it's one of the most vetted products or ingredients out there on the sunscreen market.

You know, it's been in Europe since 1999.

Then it's fine to use and it also looks good.

So these sunscreen manufacturers have to have those two things in balance.

Did you know about the second part of the spectrum of the sun?