Newer, better sunscreens have not been approved by the FDA
> At 36, I am just old enough to remember when sunscreen wasn’t a big deal. My mom, despite being among the palest people alive, does not remember bringing it on our earliest vacations, or hearing any mention of sun protection by our pediatrician.<p>> Now SPF is ubiquitous. You can find it in lotions, sprays, gels, oils, powders, and implements that look like grade-school glue sticks, as well as infused into skin-care products, lip balms, makeup, and clothing. Sun care has its own aisle at big-box stores, and beauty companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars have been built from the ground up by offering only products that block ultraviolet rays.<p>So we went from little to no sunscreen to ubiquity over a few decades, but over that time rates of skin cancer have increased per 100k.<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK247164/figure/skincancer.f3/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK247164/figure/skincanc...</a><p>Shouldn't rates have gone down? What explains this?