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Banana Boat Sport Performance Advanced UVA/UVB Sunscreen

Banana Boat · Sunscreens

Sport Performance Advanced UVA/UVB Sunscreen — ingredient safety report

Every ingredient on the label, checked against published safety data. Profile tags on each card show who should take extra care. Label data from Open Beauty Facts, a community database — formulations change, so verify against your packaging.

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Low concern

No strongly flagged ingredients in our database. As always, individual sensitivities vary.

Concern score 25/100 · 33 ingredients analyzed

Driven by Benzophenone-3 — Caredermis curated dermatological review

Risk categories found

Allergy risk5 ingredients · max 8/10Environmental impact2 ingredients · max 8/10Irritation5 ingredients · max 5/10

Flagged ingredients (8)

Ingredients with a documented concern, from official datasets and our reviewed database.

Severity 8/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: High cautionPregnancy: Best avoidedBabies & kids: Best avoidedEczema-prone: High caution
  • Allergy risk:The most common cause of sunscreen photoallergy.
  • Environmental impact:Linked to coral bleaching; banned in Hawaii and other reef regions.
Caredermis curated dermatological review

The most controversial chemical UV filter: a top cause of sunscreen allergy, a suspected endocrine disruptor found in blood and breast milk, and banned in several reef jurisdictions for coral toxicity.

Severity 8/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Best avoidedPregnancy: Use with cautionBabies & kids: Best avoidedEczema-prone: Best avoided
  • Allergy risk:Potent sensitizer, typically blended with MIT (Kathon CG).
  • Irritation:Corrosive in concentrate; irritating at use levels.
Caredermis curated dermatological review

The chlorinated partner of MIT, restricted in the EU to rinse-off products only. A leading cause of preservative contact dermatitis worldwide.

Severity 8/10
Sensitive skin: Best avoidedPregnancy: Use with cautionBabies & kids: Best avoidedEczema-prone: Best avoided
  • Allergy risk:Caused an epidemic of contact allergy; banned in EU leave-on products.
  • Irritation:Irritating even in people without allergy.
EU CLP Skin Sens. 1A ↗EU CLP Skin Corr. 1B ↗EU CLP Eye Dam. 1 ↗EU CLP Aquatic Acute 1/Aquatic Chronic 1 ↗Caredermis curated dermatological review

A preservative behind one of the largest contact-allergy epidemics in cosmetic history. The EU banned it from leave-on products and restricts it in rinse-off products to 15 ppm.

Severity 4/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Use with caution
  • Allergy risk:Degradation products can cause photoallergy when unstabilized.

The main UVA filter in US sunscreens. Safe when properly stabilized, but it breaks down in sunlight into potentially sensitizing fragments in poorly formulated products.

Retinyl Palmitate

anti-aging active

Severity 3/10Editorial
Pregnancy: Use with cautionBabies & kids: Use with caution
  • Irritation:Gentler than retinol but still a retinoid.
EU CosIng Annex III (declarable / restricted) ↗

A weak retinoid whose contested photocarcinogenicity data suggests keeping it to night products; avoided in pregnancy like all retinoids.

Phenoxyethanol

preservative

Severity 3/10
Babies & kids: Use with caution
  • Irritation:Occasional stinging and irritation, mostly around eyes and on damaged skin.
EU CLP Eye Dam. 1 ↗

Today's most common preservative, considered safe by the SCCS up to 1%. French authorities advise avoiding it in wipes and diaper-area products for children under 3 as a precaution.

Triethanolamine

ph adjuster · emulsifier

Severity 3/10Editorial
Sensitive skin: Use with caution
  • Irritation:Irritating at higher concentrations or in leave-on products.
  • Allergy risk:Occasional contact allergen.

A pH adjuster that is safe in itself but should not be combined with formaldehyde releasers or bronopol, which can convert it to nitrosamines.

Disodium EDTA

chelating agent

Severity 3/10Editorial
  • Environmental impact:Poorly biodegradable; can remobilize heavy metals in waterways.

A metal-binding stabilizer that is safe on skin at the tiny amounts used; its criticism is environmental persistence.

No concerns found (20)

Ingredients that are unflagged in our reviewed database, reviewed safe by the CIR panel, or on an EU permitted list.

Recognized ingredients (2)

Catalogued in official cosmetic-ingredient inventories (EU CosIng and others) with no safety flag on record. Being recognized isn't a safety guarantee — it means the ingredient is on record but no authority has published a concern.

  • Hydrogenated Dimer Dilinoleyl/Dimethylcarbonate Copolymer· emulsion stabilising, skin protecting
  • Disodium Ethylene Dicocamide PEG-15 Disulfate· cleansing, hair conditioning, surfactant…

Not enough data (3)

Not found in any dataset we hold (often trade-name blends or very niche ingredients), so we can't assess them — this is not a safety judgment either way.

  • Homosapate
  • Octocylene
  • Methyldibromo Methyldibromo Glutaronitrile

This report is informational, not medical advice. Assessments summarize published findings (EU CosIng, IARC, ECHA, CIR, SCCS and others) about ingredients — not clinical testing of this specific product. Exposure, concentration and individual sensitivity all matter. Consult a dermatologist for medical concerns.

Full ingredient list (as analyzed)

Avobenzone, Homosapate, Octisalate, Octocylene, Oxybenzone, Water, Stearyl Alcohol, Glycerin, Caprylyl Glycol, Hydrogenated Dimer Dilinoleyl/Dimethylcarbonate Copolymer, Cetyl Alcohol, Triethanolamine, Behenyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate, Disodium Ethylene Dicocamide PEG-15 Disulfate, Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Carbomer, Xanthan Gum, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Retinyl Palmitate (Vitamin A), Tocopherol, Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Cetearyl Alcohol, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Lecithin, BHT, Methyldibromo Methyldibromo Glutaronitrile, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Phenoxyethanol, Dipropylene Glycol, Disodium EDTA

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