{"id":6676,"date":"2017-09-09T08:54:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T08:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2017-09-09T08:54:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T08:54:37","slug":"algae-a-natural-alternative-to-commercial-sunscreen-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/algae-a-natural-alternative-to-commercial-sunscreen-products.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae &#8211; A Natural Alternative to Commercial Sunscreen Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated\u00a06,000-14,000 tons of sunscreen\u00a0are deposited into coral reef areas of the sea every year. The chemicals we rub onto our skin might help prevent skin cancer but we&#8217;re only just beginning to understand the environmental impact of sunscreen \u2013 and the initial assessments are not looking good. But early stage research suggests that nature might provide a solution to this emerging problem if we can mimic the way that some plants and animals protect themselves from the sun.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6516 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rhodophyta-Red-Algae-Carrageenan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rhodophyta-Red-Algae-Carrageenan-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rhodophyta-Red-Algae-Carrageenan-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For example, microorganism species such as cyanobacteria and algae produce a group of compounds called\u00a0mycosporine-like amino acids (MAA), which act as UVR filters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-09-sunscreen-polluting-ocean-algae-natural.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated\u00a06,000-14,000 tons of sunscreen\u00a0are deposited into coral reef areas of the sea every year. The chemicals we rub onto our skin might help prevent skin cancer but we&#8217;re only just beginning to understand the environmental impact of sunscreen \u2013 and the initial assessments are not looking good. But early stage research suggests that nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574,555,546,615],"tags":[421,136],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-cosmetics-2","category-algae-for-cosmetics","category-algae-non-fuel-products","category-research-2","tag-algae-cosmetics","tag-algae-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6677,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/6677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}