For those personal-care products you can't live without, the Environmental Working Group has established Skin Deep, an online product database through which you can learn about the known chemical toxicity of almost 64,000 cosmetic products. Although labels don't give you all the information you need to decide whether products are safe, reading them carefully is a good place to start. Choose products with the fewest ingredients and chemicals, and avoid chemical fragrances altogether.
Good alternatives to perfumes and fragrances are essential oils. For sunscreen, apply zinc oxide. It is the best, safest, and
most nonabsorbable sunblock you can use.