The Learning Lab

Shea Butter for Babies: 6 Ways It Naturally Protects Sensitive Skin

By Kari Kenner September 22, 2020 |

Ancient history tells of West Africans using jars of rich shea butter to protect and nourish their skin and hair. Today, shea butter is still one of the most trusted ingredients for dry, delicate, and easily irritated skin. Shea Butter for Babies is especially helpful because baby skin is thinner,...

20 Benefits of Vitamin C

By Kari Kenner September 09, 2020 |

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 does to defend skin from UV rays. We wondered, what are the other benefits of Vitamin C? So here’s...

What helps sunburn?

By Kari Kenner August 07, 2020 |

Hydration Anti-inflammatory Drugs Cold Compress Chilled Cucumbers Vitamin E Night Repair Serum Healing Salve Ok, so you didn’t use Waxhead Sunscreen, you stayed out way too long, or you forgot to use sunscreen at all. You got red and now you’re wondering what helps sunburn? Skin cells exposed to UV...

What are the banned FDA Sunscreen terms?

By Kari Kenner August 02, 2020 |

Several terms are still used to describe sunscreens that were outlawed by the FDA in 1999. These terms were banned because they provided consumers a false sense of security and wrongly explain what sunscreen does. We often see journalists use these terms when writing about sunscreen and this only adds...

What SPF do I need?

By Kari Kenner June 16, 2020 |

Sun protection factor (SPF) is a rating system introduced in 1974 and measures how much UVB radiation is needed before a sunburn shows up on protected skin relative to the amount of UVB radiation required to produce sunburn on unprotected skin. As the SPF value increases, sunburn protection increases. SPF...

Do I need a high SPF sunscreen?

By Kari Kenner May 19, 2020 |

Short answer - No Products with SPF 50 and higher don't really protect the skin's surface much better than one with 30 SPF, and they create a false sense of security by masking damage that occurs in deeper skin layers. Plus the ingredients needed to actually achieve high SPF are...