Natural Sun Care

A field guide to the mineral and natural sun care category, examined on its chemistry and on the claims it makes for itself.

Edition 2026-08-07Published by Northbank Media
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Newsletter and sponsorship

A monthly dispatch, one labelled sponsor line, and a rate card with limits

What the dispatch contains, how sponsorship works, the published rate, and what sponsorship explicitly cannot influence.

What the dispatch contains, how sponsorship works, the published rate, and what sponsorship explicitly cannot
Plate 09What the dispatch contains, how sponsorship works, the published rate, and what sponsorship explicitly cannot

What the dispatch is

A monthly email: what has been published, any claim whose status has changed and why, and one piece of working that does not appear on the site. Same rules as everything else here. No brands, no products, no rankings, and no sun protection factor attributed to any plant oil.

Sponsorship

One sponsor per issue, in a single clearly labelled line, placed after the editorial content and visually separated from it. The label reads as a sponsor line and does not attempt to look like editorial text.

Sponsorship is open to the same businesses eligible for the register: formulation consultants, safety assessors, testing laboratories and toxicologists. It is not open to sunscreen, skincare or cosmetic brands, at any price.

Rate card

A single issue is 280 pounds. Three consecutive issues are 750 pounds. Published rates, applied to everyone, with no negotiated variation and no discount for volume beyond the stated three issue rate.

What sponsorship cannot influence

This list is the point of the page.

  • No claim status. A sponsor cannot change a status, cannot delay one, and is not told in advance what one will be. The status vocabulary and the reasoning behind every status are published precisely so that this is checkable.
  • No editorial mention. Sponsorship buys the sponsor line and nothing else.
  • No prior sight. Sponsors see the issue when subscribers do.
  • No veto. Sponsors cannot request that a subject be avoided or a piece pulled.
  • No subscriber data. The list is never shared, sold or rented.
  • No exclusivity. A sponsor cannot prevent a competitor sponsoring a later issue.

If a sponsor objects to something published

They are welcome to say so and the correspondence is treated exactly as anyone else's would be: if they can show that something is inaccurate, it is corrected with a visible note. If they cannot, it stands. A sponsor who withdraws over accurate material is entitled to do so, and no material is altered to keep them.

Your data

Your address is used to send the dispatch and for nothing else. Unsubscribe is in the footer of every issue and takes effect immediately. Details are on the privacy page.

Editorial disclosure. This article contains no commercial links. Nothing on it has been paid for, no company has been given sight of it, and no brand or product is named anywhere on this site. This publication takes no money from sunscreen or skincare companies at any price, and the reasons are set out in what we refuse to sell. Published by Northbank Media.

The dispatch

A monthly note: what has been published, what has changed in a claim's status, and one piece of working. It carries a single clearly labelled sponsor line, at a published rate that cannot influence any status recorded here. Unsubscribe whenever you like.

Your address is used for the dispatch and nothing else. See privacy.