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'Game-Changing' New Sunscreen Ingredient Blocks One of The Most Elusive Types of Solar Radiation

Though the Sun bathes us in life-giving light, it is a scorching nuclear orb that dwarfs all the planets combined and blasts its children with gene-mutating radiation.  As such, it's important to protect ourselves as best as possible to avoid diseases like skin cancer.  We may very soon have the best tool to do just that: bemotrizinol (BEMT), the first new sunscreen ingredient that the FDA has approved in almost 30 years.

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