Hi my name is Caity and I'm the educator here at Badger.
Today we are with Rebecca Hamilton who is
our Vice President of Research and Development
and who is also one of the daughters of Badger Bill.
Thanks for joining us.
Thanks for having me.
Today we're going to talk about non-nano zinc oxide.
Rebecca on our sunscreens it says "non-nano".
Can you tell us what that means, and why customers
should be concerned about that?
Absolutely.
So a nanoparticle is just a very very small particle.
It a measurement of sorts, and a lot of sunscreens
today use nanoparticles zinc oxide because
it reduces the whitening affect of sunscreen.
Now, this may or may not be a concern for
many people but it is something that's relatively new
and there are some concerns around environmental
impact of nanoparticle zinc oxide or the question
of whether it would absorbed into your skin.
Research shows that it does not get absorbed
past the dead layer of skin, but, it can be
more reactive and it may behave differently
than a non-nano zinc oxide which is the larger,
more traditional, form of zinc oxide that
would have been used for hundreds of years.
So for Badger we chose to use non-nano zinc
oxide because we try to make an undisputable
safest sunscreen out there and while we did
not find any research that showed nanoparticles
to be specifically unsafe we had a lot of
customers who requested a non-nano sunscreen
and we wanted them to feel good about the
product they were using, and we wanted to
use the ingredient that had the safest history
of use.
Makes a lot of sense, and its super helpful
when looking at our sunscreens.
Thanks Rebecca.
You're very welcome.
