hello sunshine

 I suppose lots of you are enjoying the pleasure of summer...I'm not. Belgium sucks. 

Just wanted to tell you some facts about the sun and especially sun screen. Everywhere you hear "Every two hours you have to put sun screen on, the sun is very dangerous, skin cancer, ... " 

I don't totally agree with that. 

* When the sun reflects on our skin, we make lots of vitamin D and vitamin D is essential for our body, it helps against all kinds of sickness and (most of!) cancers! The people that live in mostly daily sunshine suffer much less of cancers than others. Also the amounts of skin cancer aren't higher there. 

* Do you know that when you put sun screen on your whole body/face, your body doesn't take in any vitamin D ?? Sun screen works as a real wall between your skin and the sun. It takes away the bad of the sun, but unfortunately also the (real) good.

*  Do you know that you are polluting the whole sea, rivers, lakes when you are swimming with your sunscreen on? In sunscreen you can find a lot of petrochemicals, nanoparticles, mineral oil, ... In short it contains everything we should avoid putting on our body and in our seas -> it comes in the sea, on marine flora and then the fish eat those and then we eat the fish... You get the picture? It is also destroying the beautiful coral. 

I'm not saying everybody should stop putting on sunscreen, certainly not white skins, but try to use more biological sunscreens, better for us and better for the sea. 

Melvita, Bio NUXE, Kibio, ... are examples of good sunscreens.

Enjoy the sun!