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Physical sun protection gets its effect with natural minerals
There are chemical and physical sunscreens available today. Our tallow sun balm is a physical sunscreen. The sun protection involves a filter created from natural minerals that causes the sun's rays to be reflected away when it reaches the skin. The sun's rays therefore do not penetrate the skin.
Our choice of minerals is non-nano. This means that it does not consist of such small particles that it can be absorbed by the skin. Use of nano-ingredients is considered risky and debated as to whether it has negative health effects. We do not yet fully know how it can affect us and nature. Thus we avoid it.
Physical non-nano sunscreens are considered much kinder to the environment. Chemical sunscreens with dubious and sometimes untested ingredients are more difficult and sometimes non-degradable in nature. In parts of the world, chemical sunscreens have been banned for their negative effects.
The consistency of a physical sunscreen is often thicker. It should not be absorbed by the skin, but you can go out directly into the sun after it has been applied. Without waiting for it to "get into the skin". The minerals give the sunscreen a white effect naturally. In our tallow sun balm, we have added calendula and iron oxide to give it a certain tinted color and thus reduce the white effect.
The white effect also shows when you need to reapply and is handy on children to ensure that the sun protection is sufficient. Apply when the whitening effect subsides and especially after bathing, sweating and using a towel.