Understanding our ingredients

Dive into what makes Coastal Minerals By Bee sunscreen special. We're committed to providing safe, effective sun protection for everyone. Learn about our certified organic, reef-safe ingredients and why they stand out from the rest. Made in Australia, our mineral non-nano zinc sunscreen is designed with your health and the environment in mind.

Hey legends, it’s Bee

You scanned the QR code on  our  bottle for the ingredients list and thinking what the hell

(yes, we actually put the full TGA listing right there for you), and now you’re staring at the screen going, “Bloody hell, some of these words are longer than my kid’s Christmas list!”
I get it. Totally.
Those big, sciency names look scary… until you realise they’re just the proper way to say “really good stuff from plants and minerals.” The TGA doesn’t let us write “coconut fluff” or “magic bean glue,” so we use the grown-up words instead 

 

I’ll break every single one down in plain Aussie so you know exactly why this is the safest, cleanest tube you’ll ever slap on your family.

I used to think the same – if I can’t pronounce it, I’m not putting it on my baby. Total rubbish, and I’m here to set the record straight.
There are heaps of “natural” sunscreens out there that only list the hero stuff on the front – “zinc, aloe, coconut oil” – and then hide the rest. Cause they know It will scare people away but Not us. Every single thing that goes into this bottle is on the label, and every single bottle has a QR code on the side. Scan it → boom → you land straight on the official TGA (Australian Government) page for our exact formula. Nothing hidden, nothing sneaky, fully verified.
So let’s go through every single ingredient, one by one, and I’ll tell you exactly where it comes from and why it’s safe enough for a six-month-old’s cheeks.
• Non-nano Zinc Oxide – mined right here in Australia, purified to pharmaceutical grade. Big particles that sit on top of the skin like a mirror, bouncing UV away. Zero absorption, zero sting, zero hormone worries. The only reason babies can legally wear sunscreen from six months.
• Candelilla Wax – comes from a little desert shrub (certified organic farms). It’s basically nature’s glue that stops the cream melting off in 38-degree heat.
• Coco-Caprylate/Decanoate – fancy way of saying “super-light fraction of organic coconut oil”. Feels like silk, not grease.
• Sunflower Seed Oil – cold-pressed from certified organic Aussie sunflower seeds. Softens skin and stops it feeling tight after a day in the salt.
• Glycerin – 100 % vegetable, certified organic. Pulls moisture from the air into the skin so cheeks stay plump, not flaky.
• D-Alpha-Tocopheryl Acetate – that’s just pure vitamin E from organic wheatgerm. Stops the cream going rancid and calms any redness before it starts.
• Glyceryl Stearate Citrate – sounds terrifying, but it’s literally coconut oil + corn-derived citric acid, gently cooked together. It’s the thing that mixes water and oil without using petrochemicals.
• Polyglyceryl-3 Polyricinoleate & Polyhydroxystearic Acid – mouthful, right? Both come from certified organic castor beans. They keep the zinc floating evenly so you never get white clumps or missed spots.
• Isostearic Acid – again, castor beans. Stops the zinc from clumping when you rub it in.
• Iron Oxides (red, yellow, black) – washed clay from the earth, zero heavy metals. That’s your tint so brown skin doesn’t go grey.
• Xanthan Gum – fermented from organic sugar cane. Thickens it into a cream instead of a runny mess.
• Sodium Chloride – fancy word for sea salt. Helps the texture.
• Purified Water – steam-distilled, nothing added.
• Thuja Plicata Leaf Oil – tiny drop of organic cedar leaf for a whisper of woody calm (and it’s a natural preservative).
Every single one of the plant-derived ingredients is certified organic. The minerals (non nano zinc and iron oxides) are the cleanest grade allowed under Australian organic standards. No parabens, no silicones, no oxybenzone, no octinoxate, no fragrance, no essential oils that can burn little faces.
everything in this bottle is pronounced “safe you just have to understand what your reading 📖 so no freak outs when you hit the QR  code to the tga website to see your certificate of safety  cause now you understand the ingredients listed that you will see  woo hoo !!!! 

See you on the beach,

Bee x