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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

Slippers IN sunshine? Even better!
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sunscreen is horrible stuff!
I always miss key areas...like a triangle at the bottom of my cleavage :hissy
or the tops of my thighs!:dizzy
I do wear a man's long sleeve dress shirt over my bathing suit, because the sun is my enemy...
what do you all do to keep the rays from attacking?
 
I always miss at least one spot a summer and end up with some funky tanlines. But, I've learned over the years, the spots that are hard to remember or easy to miss and I hit those twice! LOL! I feel like I need a shower booth for sunscreen sometimes that just sprays the darn stuff on me and the kids!
 
Well we don't have that problem here in Finland... Can you believe that it actually was snowing in many places here today?! It has been coldest since 1962 and it was about +1 degree Celsius this morning when I woke up. So no need for sunscreen here :giggle
 
Send me your snow! I miss Fall already!

I am a sunscreen fanatic. I am pale and I like it that way lol! Skin cancer runs in our family and with two pale kids, one a redhead, I always make sure to saturate them. Well, the older one does himself but I do nag haha. I love the spray on stuff. I hit all the areas with that and use a sunscreen stick for the younger one's face. I have some really nice Aveeno sunscreen for my face I like but I use the same spray on my body the kids use.
 
I am a fair-skinned redhead that is allergic to sunscreen - fun combo! (can use regular from the chest down but there up must be chemical free or my eyes will swell) My husband teases that I can get a moon burn, so i feel your pain on the sunscreen and the sunburn! I keep all of us covered in sunscreen or in a shirt over the kids' swimsuits (neither of them are fair-skinned), and we avoid the sun 10 am to 2 pm when we are at the beach. Also, this year we picked up a cabana-tent (c-shaped, open on the side so i can see what everyone is doing) for shade for me - made a huge difference in how long we can stay on the beach (we call it the mom cave ;))
 
Now that you are touching this subject. Anyone knows of a good 100% natural sunblock? Bianca is super sensitive and I am tired of "testing" on her.
 
sushimommy said:
I am a fair-skinned redhead that is allergic to sunscreen - fun combo! (can use regular from the chest down but there up must be chemical free or my eyes will swell) My husband teases that I can get a moon burn, so i feel your pain on the sunscreen and the sunburn! I keep all of us covered in sunscreen or in a shirt over the kids' swimsuits (neither of them are fair-skinned), and we avoid the sun 10 am to 2 pm when we are at the beach. Also, this year we picked up a cabana-tent (c-shaped, open on the side so i can see what everyone is doing) for shade for me - made a huge difference in how long we can stay on the beach (we call it the mom cave ;))
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Danielle, which one do you use that is chemical free?
 
No tricks from me, but just commiseration with the pain of a sunburn. I have managed about 3 different times this year to get burnt despite using sunscreen on two occasions, just not adequate apparently.
 
Sorry about the sunburns! My medication warns me to stay out of the sun so I just don't do it anymore. I have so little sun that I've had to take Vitamin D supplements. Colombia brand clothing has a sun proof line that is nice for the occasional exposure. I use a tent or get ballgame seats in the shade where possible.
 
I hate sunburn! And I've had too much experience with it. Sigh. We have a pool in our backyard but there are lots of trees, so I chase the shade when I'm out there with the kids, LOL... Shallow end in the morning and Deep end in the afternoon. And we try to avoid the hottest part of the day as well. Evening/night swimming ROCKS in the summer.

We also used tons and tons of sunscreen. Like I literally have a sunscreen "box" on the back porch, currently filled with SEVEN bottles and THREE face sticks. I've seen my sweet kids applying sunscreen at 8pm. Until I start yelling at them not to waste it ;). I'm a sunscreen nazi.
 
I'm another person allergic to sunscreen. I do the "stay out of the sun" method as well. There is so much skin cancer in my family that I've had to be careful for a very long time.
 
I'll burn sometimes, not others. There's no rhyme or reason to it. Two weeks ago we went out for a 20 mile bike ride in the middle of the day, I wore a tank top, I didn't burn even a little. But today I went for a run then mowed our lawn, around the same time as the bike ride, wearing a tank top, and I burned both of my shoulders. I was probably outside for even less time.

Nick never burns, he inherited his dad's Hawaiian Tropic skin. My ex husband could be in the sun all day and never burn and he was golden brown every summer. Nick is the same way, I still make him wear sunscreen but even if he's less than precise with it he still won't burn. I think I could leave him outside all day and he'd just come in three shades darker.
 
Peppermint said:
I'll burn sometimes, not others. There's no rhyme or reason to it. Two weeks ago we went out for a 20 mile bike ride in the middle of the day, I wore a tank top, I didn't burn even a little. But today I went for a run then mowed our lawn, around the same time as the bike ride, wearing a tank top, and I burned both of my shoulders. I was probably outside for even less time.

Nick never burns, he inherited his dad's Hawaiian Tropic skin. My ex husband could be in the sun all day and never burn and he was golden brown every summer. Nick is the same way, I still make him wear sunscreen but even if he's less than precise with it he still won't burn. I think I could leave him outside all day and he'd just come in three shades darker.
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Probably has to do with the UV index that day. In the summer, ours is always high. Go Texas lol!
 
recent studies have shown that the ability to avoid a sunburn can be in part diet based. I know this is not mainstream thinking, and counter to everything the media says, but I do wonder how people survived years ago (as in hundreds or thousands, not just decades) without modern sunscreen.

I am not grain free, but have cut back considerably over the past year and I actually tan now, whereas as a child I would burn easily.

http://sustainablebalance.ca/sunburn-resistance-through-diet/
 
Interesting! I was a tan kid. We had vacations in Pensacola and I was outside all the time. I do remember being slathered with Coppertone though! I haven't burned in a long time. In high school, I would burn, like get pink, and then a day or two later it would tan up. After that, I wouldn't burn the rest of the summer. I've been avoiding the sun since I was 20 though. Hard to say if I could tan or not at this point. MFP tells me 57% of my diet, on average, is carbs though.
 
I have a Vitamin D deficiency so the doc wants me to get more sun!! That is interesting Mollyc about the diet, I've never heard that!
 
I'm the silly one that forgets to take the sunscreen and who is now suffering,good job the sun here is rare isn't it
 
I'm getting into the doTerra oils, and I know there are some oils you can combine with zinc oxide that gives you a natural sunscreen. (search Pinterest/google). Our family has such olive skin that we just get darker and darker. I do make my children put sunscreen on even though they don't really burn b/c any sun is bad for your skin. If it were up to them they wouldn't wear it. I keep warning them they're going to have wrinkly leathery skin when they're older if they don't take care of it, or skin cancer for that matter.
 
I got stupidly sunburned on my holiday in Cornwall - swimming in an outdoor pool with only SPF15 on didn't do my day-glo-white 'complexion' any good. I've gone from translucent to traditional 'brits-abroad' bright red! OOPS!
 
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