Consumers may contact the JJCI Consumer Care Center 24/7 with questions or to request a refund by calling 1-80. The products were distributed nationwide through a variety of retail channels.Ĭonsumers should stop using these specific products and appropriately discard them. The recalled sunscreen products are packaged in aerosol cans. It is important that people everywhere continue to take appropriate sun protection measures, including the continued use of alternative sunscreen. Melanoma incidences continue to increase worldwide, and the majority of cases are caused by excessive sun exposure. Sunscreen use is critical to public health. We are investigating the cause of this issue, which is limited to certain aerosol sunscreen products. While benzene is not an ingredient in any of our sunscreen products, it was detected in some samples of the impacted aerosol sunscreen finished products. Out of an abundance of caution, we are recalling all lots of these specific aerosol sunscreen products. Based on exposure modeling and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) framework, daily exposure to benzene in these aerosol sunscreen products at the levels detected in our testing would not be expected to cause adverse health consequences. Benzene can be absorbed, to varying degrees, by inhalation, through the skin, and orally. Humans around the world have daily exposures indoors and outdoors from multiple sources. Benzene is ubiquitous in the environment. Product images and lot information is available on and Benzene is classified as a human carcinogen, a substance that could potentially cause cancer depending on the level and extent of exposure.
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