The actress and singer, 41, clarified some of her comments on a Wednesday, July 16, episode of her podcast Whine Down with Jana Kramer, starting by saying that she'd gotten both positive and negative feedback after her remarks went viral.
"I'm just doing what I think is best for my kids. I would never let my children just burn out in the sun," Kramer said. "I'm also not a dermatologist, so I don't know."
"But I'm also open to the research on all sides of it, and welcome all of that," she continued. "I have seen so much negative [things] about sunscreen, what it can do, what it can cause. I've also seen the negative things that I've read about the sun and what it can do and what it can cause."
"I think there's a healthy balance between the two. I think we need both. And we don't need excess of both," added Kramer.
Kramer explained that she replied to a handful of the DMs she received about her remarks, telling some there's "no need for name-calling."
"I didn't say always," she explained. "I put sunscreen on their neck, their ears and sometimes on their legs if we're going to a beach, a long day. But a couple of hours? No, I'm not going to, and that's okay."
"Again, I would not let my kids fry," she later added. "And I'm open to anything kindly that someone wants to flood into my DMS in a nice manner."
Kramer shares daughter Jolie, 9, and son Jace, 6, with ex Mike Caussin, plus 19-month-old son Roman with husband Allan Russell.
On a previous episode of her podcast, Kramer explained why she doesn't always put sunscreen on her kids. "Time out really fast. Let me just go back because I'm gonna get a lot of hate on this. I am well aware that I should have worn sunscreen as a child. I am well aware," Kramer began.
The mom of three said that she would routinely use the tanning oil that had 8 SPF in it and never got burned until a cast trip to Puerto Rico during her time on One Tree Hill. Kramer explained that she started wearing sunscreen more often in her thirties since her skin had changed.
"I don't use sunscreen on my kids unless it's going to be for hours outside because I know they don't burn," said Kramer.
"And there's so much bad stuff in sunscreen that if we're not going to be out there for more than a couple hours, listen, come at me. But I'm just not putting it on."
"I will if we're on the beach for hours and the reflection of all the things, like I'll put it on his neck, his ears -- the baby -- but like the kids, I haven’t put on any on them because I’m like, they’re not getting burned,” she continued. “What’s worse, the burn, or the suntan lotion?”
According to experts, sunscreen is not toxic. "There's been a lot of negative [reports] towards sunscreen out there, and it kind of stems from different reasons," Dr. Raman Madan, Director of Cosmetic Dermatology at Northwell Health told PEOPLE in June.
"One of them is that people say that sunscreen can be absorbed into the bloodstream," he said, explaining, "it's a small, small, small amount" with some chemical sunscreens. However, he said, you can wear mineral-based sunscreens like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, and "those won't be absorbed by your body."
Regarding the environmental impact of sunscreens, some "can harm coral reefs in some locations like in Hawaii and parts of Mexico, but if you're wearing the mineral-based zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, this is reef-safe, so it will be a non-issue again."
"There's a lot of misinformation out there,and I think people are just trying to find reasons not to wear sunscreen," he said.