Small business: Zoop - the sustainable sunscreen with a family foundation

John Heseltine talks to Tom Raynel about the personal story behind Zoop's beginnings.

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John Heseltine, founder of Zoop, talks to Tom Raynel about the inspiration behind his all-natural sunscreen company, and what goes into protecting our skin from sun damage. What is Zoop? Zoop is redesigning and reimagining sunscreen. Our key message and our key tagline is that we are sensitive sunscreen.

So we’re sensitive for the skin and we’re sensitive for the planet. What was the inspiration for the business? My daughter Delilah who’s now 16, who doesn’t think I’m quite as cool as I was, is allergic to all regular sunscreen. I’m English, from Yorkshire, it isn’t well known for its sun.



Before we came here, we lived in Amsterdam for seven years. The need for sunscreen wasn’t paramount, but in the short summer of northern Europe, Delilah would come out in rashes and hives and all sorts of things with any sunscreen that we used..