Best Sunscreen is also one of the Cheapest

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sunscreen needed!

Consumer Reports just came out with their review of sunscreen and it turns out that the best product tested was also one of the cheapest. Sunscreen is extremely important if you are going to be out in the sun for any continuous amount of time. While we do need 15-20 minutes of sun per day for our bodies to make vitamin D (Vitamin D is made in the skin when exposed to sunlight) anything more than that can be risky. With skin cancer rate climbing every year, it is very important to protect yourself. Using sunscreen when you are at the beach, ball game or working in the yard will protect you not only from skin cancer, but also slow the aging of your skin.From MSNBC-

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Up & Up Sport Continuous, which sells  at Target for less than $10 for two 6-ounce containers, won top honors for being the “Best Buy” sunscreen.

The magazine tested 12 leading sunscreens to see how effective they were at blocking both ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B radiation. The products were then reevaluated after volunteers wore the screens in water for 80 minutes. In addition to the Target brand, many of the other leading sunscreens ranked by Consumer Reports offered very good protection against UVA and excellent protection against UVB at a reasonable price, the agency said.

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One of the things to remember is that name and price have very little to do with effectiveness- the 2 top rated products were both house brands, one from Target and the other from Walgreens. Some of the lowest rated products were very expensive name brands like Avon and Burt’s Bees. Here are the top 4 and worst 4.

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The top 4 sunscreens rated by Consumer Reports, based on how well they protected against UVA and UVB rays while worn on volunteers who soaked in water for 40 or 80 minutes.
— Up & Up Sport Continuous (Target) spray SPF 30
— Walgreens Sport Continous spray SPF 50
— Banana Boat Sport Performance Continuous spray SPF 30
— Aveeno Continuous Protection spray SPF 50

And the lowest scoring sunscreens:
— La Roche-Posay Anthelios 40 with Mexoryl SX crea SPF 40 ($18.82 per ounce)
— Avon Skin-So-Soft Bug Guard Plus IR3535 Expedition pump spray SPF 30 (Doesn’t block UVA rays)
— Burt’s Bees Chemical-Free with Hemp Seed Oil lotion SPF 30 (Doesn’t block entire UVA spectrum)

Source: Consumer Reports