Everyday cotton and linen fabrics offer minimal UV protection with a UPF rating of just 5. That means roughly 20% of UV rays can still reach your skin resulting in cumulative skin damage.
Wear what you love and stay protected from UVA and UVB rays. No special UPF wardrobe, just your favorite outfits treated with sun defense so you can stay outside longer, move freely, and feel the sun's rays without the worry.
Patent pending sun protection laundry booster pod that adds invisible UV protection to your clothes as you wash, turning your clothes into UPF 30 - 50+ sun protection armor.
Pack size: 9.5 x 2.75 x 8.5 in
Weight: 1.1 lb
Pods per pack: 32 (32 washes)
Pod type: Water-soluble, pre-measured capsules
Add a pod in the your washer drum along with your clothes and detergent.
SunClad activates in the wash and locks in protection as your clothes dry.
Your favorite outfits now have added sun protection! Enjoy the sunshine!
What I love about SunClad is that it makes sun protection feel seamless. This is especially important for kids and families. You apply sunscreen [on your kids] in the morning, but you don’t know if it’s being reapplied at school. SunClad helps bridge that gap. It allows kids (and adults) to wear clothing they actually like while still getting an added layer of protection in the areas that are covered. It gives parents a little more peace of mind and makes sun protection feel effortless, which is exactly how it should be.
I highly recommend SunClad to give your fabrics UPF 30+ protection this summer. A lot of cotton clothes have only have an SPF of 8. That means a lot of UV rays still reach your skin. If you’re not wearing fabric that has UPF protection in it. That means your skin under your clothes is getting UV exposure that leads to skin damange and potential sunburns and more skin cancer.
As a dermatologist, I believe UPF clothing is the primary and best way to protect your skin from skin cancer and signs of aging. And as a founder of a UPF swim and activewear brand (Helioshield), I also know that it can be difficult to find UPF clothing that fits and is fashionable. Sunclad is a brilliant solution to this problem. With Sunclad, you can simply wash and transform your favorite pieces into UPF 30 clothing. This is a game changer, especially for linen and cotton shirts that offer little inherent protection.
SunClad is an innovative product that turns regular clothing into UPF clothing, and I’m always looking for practical, easy-to-use options that help my patients incorporate sun protection into their daily routine.
We had a third party lab TÜV SÜD test SunClad. Go inside the lab to see how your everyday clothes become sun-protective.
SunClad is formulated with a UV-absorbing filter that bonds best to natural fiber fabrics during the wash. This creates an invisible shield that absorbs UV rays before they reach your skin so you can stay protected all day long!
We partnered with TÜV SÜD, a leading global testing lab, to measure fabric UPF before and after washing with SunClad. The results showed a significant jump in protection. For example, a cotton shirt increased from UPF 4.5 to UPF 40.2 in just one wash.
SunClad works best on natural fibers like cotton and linen and natural–synthetic blends like cotton-poly. SunClad is less effective on 100% synthetic fabrics like polyester and mesh fabrics.
The protection lasts for at least three washes. That said, we suggest using it every time you do laundry because the rate of protection increases varies with different fabrics.
SunClad is not a detergent or cleaning agent. For normal cleaning, we recommend using your regular laundry detergent as usual.
Nope! SunClad does not alter the way they look or feel, so keep rocking your style :)
SunClad increases sun protection at different rates depending on the fabric type and weave. In our testing, cotton and cotton-polyester blends increased from around UPF 5 to UPF 30+ after just one wash, while linen reached UPF 30+ after about four washes.
Other factors, like load size, can also affect how quickly protection builds. For the most consistent results, we recommend using SunClad with every wash.
When used as intended in the wash, SunClad is designed to be safe for the environment and waterways after wastewater processing. We formulated SunClad to integrate into normal laundry use without disrupting standard wastewater treatment systems.
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