what your sunscreen does after it leaves your skin.
20 real sunscreens, analyzed by the live gbg engine. zero came back green. pick a bottle — the reef below reacts to what washes off. the shelf is sorted worst → best.
noaa's national ocean service lists certain chemical uv filters — oxybenzone, octinoxate and octocrylene among them — as chemicals that can harm aquatic life including corals: tissue accumulation, induced bleaching, dna damage. a 2016 laboratory study found oxybenzone toxic to juvenile corals; a 2021 study reported benzophenone accumulating as octocrylene sunscreens age — findings that drew published scientific debate. this is laboratory and agency-caution evidence, not a settled quantification of reef-scale decline. the engine stores the nuance, not the headline.
every ingredient keeps an environmental ledger.
four machine-readable fields per dossier — reef toxicity, biodegradability, microplastic, regulatory bans — harvested verbatim from the production engine. 20 of the 89 harvested dossiers shown; the live db has 8,595 ingredients scored. click a row for the engine's reasoning.
| ingredient (inci) | engine verdict | reef toxicity | biodegradability | microplastic | on regulators' lists |
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the regulatory wave has already left shore.
verified regulation only — every event names its statute. the dashed cards are already law with staggered effect. tap an ingredient tag to jump to its ledger row.
hawaii's statute, palau's list, the eu's restrictions — they sit verbatim in the regulatory_bans field you just scrolled past. four machine-readable fields in the production dossier schema, 8,595 ingredients scored in the live db. when the next jurisdiction moves, a retailer's compliance check is an api query — not a reformulation scramble.