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"The vast majority of wetsuits on sale today are made of a synthetic rubber called Neoprene. Neoprene - the commercial name for chloroprene rubber - is the product of a toxic and carcinogenic chemical process".

Here's an awesome video from science and fashion icon, Dr Karl, on the harmful effects of UV radiation on elastin in young skin. TL;DR cover your child's skin unless you want them to look like a walnut by age 30. Oh and also - Dr Karl has only ever been sunburnt twice in his entire life!

We've taken the next step in our sustainability journey by shifting all our kids wetsuits from process-heavy and petrochemical-based neoprene to natural rubber sourced from Forestry Sustainability Council (FSC) approved trees.

Skin damage accrues over the course of a person’s life, beginning in childhood. So if we can reduce our kids overall sun exposure then we drastically reduce their chances of developing skin cancers later in life. But that shouldn’t mean keeping kids in the cupboard with an iPad and a milk arrowroot biscuit. It just means making sun smartness a positive experience that kids willingly opt into. 

We absolutely LOVE Woah Yelly. Not just because it's an awesome print made especially for us by the incredible illustrator, Johanna Walderdorff, but also because it represents so much of what Fants is about.

After a crazy successful test run last summer, we spent the Melbourne winter lockdown developing three new designs with some of our favourite artists. It has been a real mission but we're now stoked to have them ready for Spring!