Three more Australian sunscreens have been pulled from shelves due to concerns about their sun protection ratings.
Select products from Outside Beauty & Skincare, Found My Skin and Endota will undergo further SPF testing after sales were paused on Thursday.
Affected products include Outside Beauty and Skincare’s SPF 50+ Mineral Primer, Found My Skin’s FACE Tinted Mineral SPF 50+ with Kakadu Plum and Endota’s Mineral Protect SPF 50 and Natural Clear Zinc SPF 50+.
‘With the utmost safety and concern for our customers, we have momentarily removed the SPF 50+ Mineral Primer from our website while we investigate the efficacy and stability of this product,’ Outside Beauty & Skincare said in a statement on its website.
The company reiterated that the product had not been recalled and that the Therapeutic Goods Administration had not notified it to recall it.
Found My Skin and Endota echoed similar sentiments in their statements.
The brands reassured customers that the pausing of sales was precautionary as they awaited testing results.
Earlier this week, Naked Sundays also paused sales of its bestselling SPF 50+ Collagen Glow 100 per cent Mineral sunscreen as it awaits the results of independent sun protection testing.
Outside Beauty and Skincare paused sales of its SPF 50+ Mineral Primer over SPF concerns
Found My Skin will also review the SPF of their FACE Tinted Mineral SPF 50+ with Kakadu Plum (pictured)
The Therapeutic Goods Administration’s preliminary results indicated the Naked Sundays sunscreen was protective at SPF 50 levels.
It comes after a recent investigation by consumer agency Choice found that 16 of 20 tested sunscreens did not meet their advertised SPF level.
The impacted Naked Sundays, Outside Beauty & Skincare, Found My Skin, Endota sunscreens were not part of the Choice investigation.
Skincare company Ultra Violette came under fire when Choice discovered its Lean Screen 50+ Mattifying Zinc Skinscreen scored the lowest SPF rating of four.
The company disputed Choice’s testing methodology and results, saying it followed TGA guidelines and did not arbitrarily slap on a SPF 50+ label.
However, Ultra Violette revealed last Friday independent lab tests following the Choice controversy uncovered Lean Screen had ‘significant atypical variability’ in its SPF protection.
Across eight tests, the product returned an SPF rating of 4, 10, 21, 26, 33, 60, 61, and 64 when it should have consistently been above 50.
‘That wasn’t good enough for us, and it isn’t good enough for you,’ co-founders Rebecca Jefferd and Ava Chandler-Matthews said in a statement.
Endota paused sales of their products Mineral Protect SPF 50 and Natural Clear Zinc SPF 50+ (pictured)
Sunseekers are now questioning whether their favourite sunscreens are safe to use after a bombshell Choice investigation. Pictured are beachgoers at Bondi
One of Australia’s most trusted sunscreen brands was also named in the investigation.
Three Cancer Council products SPF 50+ failed to meet their SPF levels.
The bombshell revelations have since sparked outrage, with many consumers left questioning whether their favourite sunscreens are safe to use.
SPF stands for sun protection factor, which is used to indicate how well a product will protect skin from damaging UVB rays.
A rating of SPF 50 means a sunscreen only allows two percent (or one fiftieth) of the sun’s UVB rays to reach the skin.
