TikTok sunscreen trend could have harmful impact [Video]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Summer comes with more time spent outside enjoying the sun, but a new social media trend has skin experts concerned with the myths circulating about sunscreen.

An anti-sunscreen trend has become popular on social media sites, especially TikTok. The trend is encouraging users to stop wearing sunscreen arguing that the protectant uses cancer-causing chemicals and damages the skin.

Other common myths say sunscreen is an endocrine disruptor and may interfere with the body’s hormones, the sunscreen could enter the bloodstream, and that sunscreen is making people’s skin darker.

Board Certified Dermatologist Dr. Lycia Thornburg said none of these myths are true.

“The FDA did a large study on this, of the old formulations and even with the old formulations that had higher concentrations less than a fraction of 1% got into our bloodstream. And the newer formulations also had been made so that they are …