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THRIVE LAB
The Thrive Lab
Zinc Oxide: UV Defense
Zinc oxide is simply THE best active sunscreen ingredient, and by a wide margin. Covering the entire UVA/UVB spectrum by itself, it has the most consistently effective absorption capabilities, whic...
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Safe Sunscreen Guide
Are you putting safe sunscreen on your skin?
Sunscreen is supposed to protect us from the sun, but as more and more people use it, the incidence of skin cancer rises 4% every year. More sunscreen u...
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What are Free Radicals?
They’re atoms with unpaired (free) electrons. Produced by oxygen metabolizing in the body, they steal electrons from other atoms that make up cell membranes, cellular proteins, lipids and DNA. Eac...
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What do Antioxidants do?
Antioxidants do two things: they decrease free radical production, and they neutralize those already created. An antioxidant works by seeking out free electrons and pairing one of its own with the ...
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What is CoQ10?
What is CoQ10?
CoQ10, also known as CoEnzyme Q10 or Ubiquinone, is officially recognized as Ubidecarenone by the US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP).
CoQ10 is a compound that provides energy to ...
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Rosehip Oil Skin Benefits
What is Rosehip Oil?
Used by ancient Mayans, rosehip seed oil (aka rosehip oil) is made by press-extracting oil from the seeds of the wild rose bush (Rosa moschata or Rosa rubiginosa) in the southe...
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What is Oxybenzone?
Oxybenzone is the current bad guy in recent sunscreen news articles, daytime TV, and research studies and you may be asking, “But what is Oxybenzone?”
Most common sunscreens are full of chemicals,...
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Zinc Oxide vs Titanium Dioxide
Zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are the only mineral compounds approved by the FDA for use as active sunscreen ingredients. How do they differ? Which is better? Read on.
Cut to the chase. Which i...
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17 Benefits to taking Vitamin E
We started our Waxhead mission as a way to protect our skin in the sun. And just like water-soluble Vitamin C, its fat-soluble Vitamin E partner became a vital ingredient in our nutrient bars. Quit...
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Physical vs Chemical Sunscreen
What is Physical Sunscreen?
Physical Sunscreen (sometimes called Mineral Sunscreen) forms a protective physical barrier of inert minerals over the skin, is not absorbed by the skin, and is less li...
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What does Vitamin C do for your Teen?
In designing our Antioxidant Bites, Vitamin C was a vital ingredient because of the amazing things it does to defend skin from UV rays by removing free radicals. But Vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid) i...
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20 Benefits of Vitamin C
We started Waxhead to find a better way to protect the skin in the sun. In designing our Antioxidant Bites, Vitamin C quickly became a must-have ingredient, simply because of the amazing things it ...
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