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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Criteria and rates

What is required, what it costs, and what the money does not buy

The full requirements for a register entry, the published rate, and the list of things a fee cannot purchase.

Who may apply

Cosmetic formulation consultants and consultancies. Cosmetic product safety assessors. Testing laboratories offering services relevant to cosmetic products. Toxicologists and toxicological consultancies. All business facing.

Sunscreen, skincare and cosmetic brands may not apply, at any price. Retailers, distributors and marketing agencies serving those brands may not apply.

Requirements, all verifiable

  • Registered legal name and company registration number, checkable against the relevant public register.
  • Country and address of operation.
  • Year the business was established.
  • A description of services in plain terms, without superlatives or unverifiable claims.
  • A named contact with their role.
  • Any professional registration, chartered status, accreditation or laboratory accreditation held, with the awarding body and a reference by which it can be verified. Claims that cannot be verified with the awarding body are not published.
  • Written agreement to these terms, including that the entry is labelled as paid.

Details are rechecked every twelve months. An entry whose verifiable facts have changed and not been updated is removed.

Rates

A standard entry is 480 pounds for twelve months. One additional discipline listed on the same entry is 160 pounds for twelve months. These are this publication's own prices, set by the publisher, and they are the only monetary figures anywhere on this site.

What the fee does not buy

  • Position. The register is alphabetical and nothing changes that.
  • A mention in any article, ever.
  • A link from any article, ever.
  • Influence over any claim status, or advance notice of one.
  • Sight of any material before publication.
  • Removal or amendment of accurate material.
  • A badge, seal, mark, tier or endorsement of any kind.
  • Exclusivity in a category, or the exclusion of a competitor.
  • Any suggestion that the entrant's work has been assessed. It has not.
  • Immunity from this publication writing about problems in the entrant's field.

Grounds for refusal

Failing to evidence the requirements. Being a brand, or a business acting for one in this category. Asking for the criteria to be varied. Requesting a featured position. Making the payment conditional on editorial treatment. Where an application is refused after payment, the fee is returned in full.

Grounds for removal

Misrepresenting a registration or accreditation. Using the entry to imply an endorsement or an assessment. Providing facts that turn out not to be verifiable. Removal in these circumstances is without refund and the reason is recorded.

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.

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