Based Product Of The Month - May
Your summer 2024 essential.
May Product of The Month: Primal Glow Sunbalm
Category: Skincare
Pricing: €25 for one jar. Lasts about 3-4 months depending on frequency of use.
Let’s get one thing straight: the sun is great for you, yes. But many have taken this to mean that any amount of direct sun exposure will be beneficial. And while it’s true that many of us are not getting nearly enough sunlight, too much unprotected sun exposure can definitely be harmful.
It’s important to protect your skin if you’re going to be spending a long time under direct sunlight. The problem is that most of the sunscreen products available contain a bunch of harmful chemicals that can even be more dangerous to you than an overexposure to sunlight.
If you want an in-depth scientific breakdown into the risks of sunlight exposure and the problems of commercial sunscreen, I highly recommend you check out this article.
For our purposes, the important things to note are twofold: one, it’s true that sometimes even the healthiest person will need to use some form of sunscreen to avoid sunburn and skin damage. And two, commercial sunscreens are far from ideal at best, and plain harmful at worst. So we’re left in a bit of a difficult situation, since we know we need to protect ourselves from too much sun but the available alternatives don’t seem to be good enough.
Enter Primal Glow Sunbalm.
What Is Primal Glow Sunbalm?
Some of the people on the health, fitness and self-improvement sphere online have noticed this problem, and taken it upon themselves to develop healthy alternatives to overly chemical healthcare products. My friend Wouter from Time2beBetter is one of them. He' started Primal Glow Cosmetics, a company that seeks to create the best 100% natural & organic cosmetic products for everyday use, free from plastics and synthetic chemicals.
His latest product is Primal Glow Sunbalm, a natural sunscreen made from Jojoba oil, beef tallow, and beeswax, which offers excellent support for your skin when faced with long sun exposure, without the harmful chemicals of regular sunscreens.
Each of these ingredientes play a key role and help make the balm, effective, safe, and actually good for your skin.
Beef tallow: 100% Grass-fed, has all the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, K, and contains a large percentage of stable saturated fat. It’s excellent for nourishing and hydrating your skin.
Jojoba Oil: This is a plant-derived liquid wax that closely mimics the skin’s sebum, providing deep hydration without greasiness. It’s rich in vitamins B and E and it helps soothe, nourish, and protect any kind of skin type.
Organic Beeswax: Naturally sourced from sustainably managed hives. Known for its deep moisturizing capabilities, beeswax forms a protective barrier that helps seal in moisture without clogging pores.
Zinc Oxide: A mineral with excellent UV protection properties. Since Zinc is an essential mineral for humans, and Zinc Oxide is found in nature, this is perhaps the only UV blocker that is safe for you and the environment.
The sea-breeze variant of the product also contains some essential oils to give it a fresh scent, such as cedar wood, eucalyptus, lemon, and rosemary.
Benefits Of Primal Glow Sunbalm
Aside from it being natural and sustainable, here’s a few other benefits of Primal Glow Sunbalm:
Natural Support: Includes the safest proven UV blocker on the planet (Zinc Oxide) for yourself and the environment. While it’s very difficult to assign a specific SPF value without extensive laboratory testing, it’s possible to estimate it: The maximum allowed concentration of Zinc Oxide in a sunscreen product in the US is 25%, Primal Glow uses 20%. Based on other sunscreen formulations that use 20% Zinc Oxide, the SPF value is expected to be between SPF 24-32. However, it’s important to remember that the SPF value is not a linear scale, but a logarithmic one. What that means is that SPF 15 already blocks 93%, while SPF 50 blocks 98%. Thus, going for a very high SPF does not necessarily add a lot of extra protection.
Nourishes & Hydrates: While the fats keep the moisture trapped to prevent your skin from drying, the naturally high vitamin E content protects against skin inflammation. This combination gives the sunbalm excellent hydrating and nourishing properties, which is not the case with most modern commercial sunscreen products.
No Synthetic Ingredients: No synthetic chemicals, hormone disruptors, or microplastics. Only pure natural ingredients. You don’t want to be using a product that might protect you from the sun but will harm your health in multiple other ways. With Primal Glow Sunbalm you know exactly what you’re getting and you also now it’s beneficial for you.
You can read more about the product in Primal Glow’s website, as well as see all the other products this brand offers.
This is an essential product for the upcoming record-breaking hot summer we’re about to have.
Let me know in the comments how it goes with this natural sunscreen and what your experience with it is.
Also, remember to recommend some brands that you like for the “Product of the month” section as I’m always looking for good products to recommend on here.
Talk soon,
Simple Man
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