We are smack dab in the middle of summer and the heat may or may not be frying your absolute brains out. What’s important to remember while the sun is shining it’s brightest is to apply your sunscreen! And one of the most popular active ingredients in sunscreen is avobenzone. Not to sound too scientific (I’m about to go geek-tastic on you), avobenzone is a synthetic dibenzoylmethane derivative. It can also be known as butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane or Parsol 1789. If you, like me, just had your head explode trying to read out those chemicals, let me simplify it. Avobenzone is