Thanks to your feedback we've added some new links to our website, including a quick access FAQ link from the top navigation bar. The FAQ includes answers to your common questions, from shipping to baby-safety to the definition of SPF values.

In addition, you can find more detailed information via Kabana's publication archives.

The Kabana Label Reader's Column archive contains the entire anthology of indispensible skin care safety information published by Kabana since 2005.

Or, check out our Newsletter archive which goes all the way back to Kabana's 2005 launch. See firsthand how we've grown!

As if you need any more misinformation from the sunscreen industry, the most popular sunscreen safety database is failing to evaluate sunscreens using ingredient common sense and the last set of regulations for sunscreen manunfacturers published to protect you by FDA in the 1999 federal register.

Although Skin Deep's Cosmetics Database reports that 4 out of 5 sunscreens fail to provide adequate protection from the sun, they reward companies for inflating their SPF claims by not requiring submission of any SPF testing data, much less unbiased third-party SPF testing data. This practice puts companies like Kabana that do third-party SPF testing at a disadvantage, since Skin Deep's evaluation is heavily weighted on the manufacturer's reported SPF value, which, using Skin Deep's present system, can easily be manipulated.

For example, Green Screen Organic SPF 20 Sunscreen provides 95% UV protection (1.7% less UV protection than the top rated SPF "30" sunscreen at 96.7%), uses 8 edible-grade, vegan ingredients with certified organic base oils and leads the industry with 25% non-nanoparticle, baby-safe, zinc oxide, yet is penalized with a UVB score of 5, effectively eliminating the product from the top 10 listings.

Kabana has suggested Skin Deep require companies to submit SPF testing data, and has offered its own on several occasions. We've also suggested Skin Deep actively educate consumers about how SPF works and proper sunscreen reapplication practices. Although Skin Deep is perfectly positioned to act in your interest, it is neither interested in assuring you receive adequate protection, nor that manufacturers follow the 1999 OTC final monograph for sunscreen labels that FDA created to protect YOU from 'misleading' labeling claims.

Indeed Skin Deep's top rated sunscreens use terms that were explicitly excluded from the 1999 regulations because they provide consumers a "false sense of security," such as 'sunblock.'

More alarmingly, several of the top-10 rated sunscreens contain photosensitizing citrus oils, which cause increased UV damage to your skin cells and DNA. Somehow Skin Deep has entirely overlooked this crucial fact about citrus oils, yet they still report a 100% data gap (which means they have absolutely NO safety information) on such ingredients. It is outrageous to call citrus oils safe in sunscreen products!

The fact is that based on evaluation of the information contained on their website, all of Skin Deep's top-10 rated products contain one or more of the following problematic ingredients or violate FDA's regulations:

1. Nanoparticle sunscreens
2. Petrochemicals (such as ozokerite)
3. Citrus oils with photosensitizing properties
4. Labeling that fails to follow FDA's 1999 OTC Final Monograph on Sunscreens

Green Screen Organic SPF 20 Sunscreen has none of these issues!

Why is Skin Deep failing consumers? Perhaps they should disclose what companies are financially supporting their 'efforts' as well. Kabana doesn't donate money to Skin Deep.

Kabana will admit we certainly have a vested interest in selling our products, Green Screen Organic Sunscreens in particular. We challenge anyone to compare our ingredients to the competition's and are confident you'll find ours to be the best.

Our ingredients, ethical labeling, and transparent business practices speak for themselves.

Love your skin. Kabana does.

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