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The Sunscreen Company (CyberDERM, Ava Isa)

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Family-run, dermatologist-developed all-mineral zinc oxide sunscreens and clinical skincare under the CyberDERM, Ava Isa and Natrèceutique labels.

St. Catharines, ON CA · thesunscreencompany.com

76.6

The Sunscreen Company is a family-run St. Catharines, Ontario maker of all-mineral zinc oxide sunscreens and clinical skincare, founded by physicians Denis Dudley and Sharyn Laughlin with chemist Tom Heinar and run by their daughter Sara Dudley as CEO. It sells direct from a Canadian and a US storefront and through Well.ca, and formulated the Eleven by Venus Williams SPF line for Credo Beauty. The vendor never says where its products are made, and two directories disagree on whether the sunscreens are produced in Canada only or in Canada and the US.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor describes itself as a small Canadian family company created by two husband-and-wife physicians, a chemist and their daughter, with Sara Dudley as CEO, and its privacy policy names the operating business as CyberDERM-The Sunscreen Company; no investor, parent or acquisition is named anywhere. Corporations Canada returns no federal corporation for The Sunscreen Company, CyberDERM or Cyberderm Laboratories, so the entity is presumably an Ontario corporation; the Ontario Business Registry could not be queried from this session and no shareholder record was checked. The CANADA List corroborates Canadian ownership.

Manufacturing

61.0 inferred

CA 70% · US 30%

The vendor's site names no factory, lab or country of manufacture on its story, FAQ, shipping or product pages, and no NPN or DIN is shown that could be traced through Health Canada. The CANADA List records manufacturing as Canada for both CyberDERM and Ava Isa, while madeinca.ca records Canada and the US for the sunscreens, and the site's note that US customers must now order from a separate US shop because of tariffs is consistent with some US production or stock. The split is an estimate weighted to Canada for the skincare lines and part of the sunscreen volume.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Every page of the vendor's site gives a single address at 186 Merritt Street, St. Catharines, Ontario, with a 289 area code phone number, and the founders and CEO are described as a family working from that business; no office or staff outside Canada is named. Head count is not disclosed. Directories place the company's origins in Ottawa and Toronto, but the current registered contact is St. Catharines.

Inputs

22.0 inferred

CA 15% · EU 25% · other 25% · US 35%

The formulas are built on high-concentration zinc oxide dispersions, titanium dioxide, cerium oxide, plant oils and specialty actives such as Norwegian spruce extract and a patented sugar cane derived booster, and none of these ingredients or the packaging are given an origin on the site; cosmetic-grade zinc oxide and dispersions are typically sourced from US, European and Asian suppliers. The split is an estimate, not a published figure. The site and both storefronts run on Squarespace, a US platform, though direct sales are not the only channel.

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