Aerosol Sunscreens

[UnicornHair]

While I don’t use aerosol sunscreens for myself or my family, I’m surrounded by others using them at my childrens’ swim meets and team practices. I often don’t have any warning until I inhale a mouthful of mystery spray after someone several rows behind me has used it.  Are there aerosol sunscreens that contain gluten ingredients?  If yes, I would like to ask the team coach to designate a specific area on the pool deck for spraying these products. 

[Scott Adams]

This is a good question, and I took a look a some of the more popular ones on Amazon, where you can view the cans and read the active and inactive ingredients, and I didn't see any with any gluten ingredients. I doubt that gluten ingredients would be used in them simply because they would likely plug up the spay nozzle pretty quickly, but I didn't review every brand. After looking at the ingredients though, here are probably other good reasons not to breath in this stuff! 😉

[UnicornHair]

1 hour ago, Scott Adams said:

This is a good question, and I took a look a some of the more popular ones on Amazon, where you can view the cans and read the active and inactive ingredients, and I didn't see any with any gluten ingredients. I doubt that gluten ingredients would be used in them simply because they would likely plug up the spay nozzle pretty quickly, but I didn't review every brand. After looking at the ingredients though, here are probably other good reasons not to breath in this stuff! 😉

Thank you for this response. I was at CVS last night and took a detour past the sunscreen aisle. The CVS brand and Eucerin brand and another I cannot recall contained tocopherol. I may be wrong, but many tocopherols and vitamin Es are derived from wheat. Hence my concern. Yes, I agree that the aerosols contain many other harmful ingredients which our family prefers to avoid. At this time, gluten is the immediate concern and the one that is most likely to be taken seriously by the swim team staff. 

[shadycharacter]

On 4/23/2023 at 2:07 AM, UnicornHair said:

While I don’t use aerosol sunscreens for myself or my family, I’m surrounded by others using them at my childrens’ swim meets and team practices. I often don’t have any warning until I inhale a mouthful of mystery spray after someone several rows behind me has used it.  Are there aerosol sunscreens that contain gluten ingredients?  If yes, I would like to ask the team coach to designate a specific area on the pool deck for spraying these products. 

It could be the propellant. Here are some advice I found online against using spray sunscreen:

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/benzene-in-sunscreen/

"While the risks aren’t clearly known yet, the safest route, for now, is to avoid spray-style sunblock, Dr. Bullard says. "

 

[Scott Adams]

6 hours ago, UnicornHair said:

Thank you for this response. I was at CVS last night and took a detour past the sunscreen aisle. The CVS brand and Eucerin brand and another I cannot recall contained tocopherol. I may be wrong, but many tocopherols and vitamin Es are derived from wheat. Hence my concern. Yes, I agree that the aerosols contain many other harmful ingredients which our family prefers to avoid. At this time, gluten is the immediate concern and the one that is most likely to be taken seriously by the swim team staff. 

Eucerin does not offer a spray version, which was the focus of this thread. So far I can't find one with any gluten ingredients, but if anyone finds one please post a link to it. 

Dr. Bullard is worried about benzine and not gluten, according to that article, but I think the OP is just wanting to know if their child will get gluten being around others who are spraying sun screen, and so far I don't see this as a risk. 

[UnicornHair]

16 hours ago, Scott Adams said:

Eucerin does not offer a spray version, which was the focus of this thread. So far I can't find one with any gluten ingredients, but if anyone finds one please post a link to it. 

Dr. Bullard is worried about benzine and not gluten, according to that article, but I think the OP is just wanting to know if their child will get gluten being around others who are spraying sun screen, and so far I don't see this as a risk. 

Here is a link to one of the spray sunscreens containing tocopherol—often derived from wheat.

Eucerin Advanced Hydration SPF 50 Sunscreen Spray, Lightweight Sunscreen Lotion Spray, 6 Fl Oz Spray Bottle

[Scott Adams]

Here are the ingredients to Eucerin Advanced Hydration SPF 50 Sunscreen Spray, and it does contain tocopherol, but they also are advertising it as "hypoallergenic," so it is likely not wheat or soy derived, as both of those are in the top 8 allergens. The only way to be certain would be to contact the company.

https://www.amazon.com/Eucerin-Advanced-Hydration-Sunscreen-Lightweight/dp/B09MJHPQ4W/

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Ingredients

Active Ingredients: Avobenzone 3%, Homosalate 9%, Octisalate 4.5%, Octocrylene 9%... Inactive Ingredients: Water, Dimethyl Ether, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Neopentyl Glycol Diheptanoate, Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Glycyrrhiza Inflata Root Extract, Glycyrrhetinic Acid, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Tocopherol, Hydroxyacetophenone, Diethylhexyl Syringylidenemalonate, VP/Eicosene Copolymer, 1,2-Hexandiol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Potassium Hydroxide, Disodium EDTA, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate