awesome. I needed this before I re-stocked at BJs last month. that neutrogena stuff aint cheap.

I’d just been diagnosed with skin cancer when we went to Grand Cayman. I wore a big floppy hat and long sleeves! On a sunny little island! What an idiot I looked, but at that point the cancer paranoia was running strong…

I appreciated a little -and that’s what we got, a little- info on the various sunscreens. It all adds up.

I’ll keep using sunscreen; most of my damage was done early in life, but you never know…

Whenever the word “may” is used in conjunction with a scare story – I want to start smacking heads against a wall. In other words – they are proclaiming something is harmful, but… don’t quite have the evidence to back it all up and thus fall back on the word “may”. Of course global warmening scientists say the same things as do all the food nannies. ’nuff said there.

Last of all – when they start declaring that Europe is the be all/end all of medical rightness – I start looking with dark suspicion. Okay, so Europe approves all kinds to “other chemicals”… chemicals that supposedly work better than our antiquated American system will allow through… remember though that Europe also approved Thalidomide when the backward Americans thought it needed more study… (for those who don’t know about Thalidomide, just google it)

Since sunscreen is not an immediate life saving necessity (unlike chemotherapy where you might die pretty quick without access to the drugs) I think I would prefer that we study what it is we allow to be used on the skin before letting the Europeans decide that “oh it’s okay”. Considering the amount of sunscreen used in this country – I would also like proof of this “hormone disruption” of which they speak. It’s pretty easy to proclaim such a thing – much harder to prove.

I also have had skin cancer. I live up north so I seldom use sunscreen. I don’t think I’ll die from getting a little sun exposure. I try to stay in shaded areas when possible, where long clothing when possible, and only use sunscreen if I know I’ll be out in the sun for a prolonged time. I have fair skin and I haven’t burned in years. So if I end up with another melanoma, I guess everyone can laugh at me – heh.

In the meantime, I will take the web site advice with the same grain of salt I take all other sites of this type. They might have some good info or… they might be full of hot air. I have no proof either way and neither do they. LOL.

You really have to know what you’re buying these days, especially unregulated stuff like that…

The other thing they talk a lot about are the chemicals in most mainstream sunscreens that get absorbed into the skin. Scary stuff.