Blue Lizard Sunscreen ‘Mineral-Based’ Label Deceptive, Suit Says

Crown Laboratories misleads consumers into thinking its Blue Lizard sunscreens are mineral-based when they’re made with potentially harmful chemicals, a new proposed class suit in a California federal court alleges.

The company capitalizes on consumers’ desire for healthy and safe products, Stacie Somers alleges in a suit filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Chemical-based sunscreens contain active ingredients such as octisalate, octocrylene, and octinoxate, which protect the skin by absorbing ultraviolet radiation and dissipating it as heat, the suit says.

Mineral-based sunscreens use mineral active ingredients such as zinc oxide, which cover the ...