Making some sense out of your sunscreen -- South Florida Sun-Se...

Must be NOTHING going on today, if your in SoFlo and need sunscreen info do yourself a favor and jump off the airport on ramp.

Once again the sunscreen industry manages to dilute FDA regulations and postpone implementation. The new rules are nothing but watered down version of regulations the industry has been stalling for 6 years.
Originally the proposal would have made illegal to advertise SPF superior to 30. SPF 30 blocks 99.9% of UVs, SPF 40 or 45 misleads the public into believing they will get a lot more protection, which is not the case.
With these regulations, they have been able to toss it aside and come up with useless labeling that will confuse the consumer even more and will not give adequate information.
Most sunscreen companies are owned by big pharmaceutical companies and these companies know their way around the FDA and know how to manipulate it to their advantage

Check out the following web site for ratings of sunscreens.
www.ewg.org

I use Bullfrog on the kids. It seems to work the best without running into their eyes.

Will we by any chance be getting any real news today? And what a shame, nothing about the benefits of sun and how it helps your body synthesize vitamin D to aid in calcium absorption and lower bad LDLs in the body. Yawl are really bashing mother nature today like she's some kind of enemy. Cheers to more junior reporting and recent attempts at "pop culture" assimilation.

Mmmmm, just wonder what people use to use before sun screen/lotions hit the market?? Remember my grandmother mixing bady oil and iodine and applying on us kids at the beach every half hour or so.

Sun wrote:

Check out the following web site for ratings of sunscreens.
www.ewg.org

Very informative site. Unfortunately, the products they rank the best are not available anywhere in Florida, unless you buy them online.

As an above writer said, there's nothing ever written about how your body needs a little sunlight on it.
Here in Fla if you were to get 15 minutes a day of it there's the potential to slash cancer risk.
Early sun or late sun.
It's not good to completely avoid the sun. Avoid sunburn but get some sunlight on you.
It has to do with sunlight producing Vit D in the body. Vit D is being shown to prevent many diseases including some cancers.

But they'll tell you to put toxic chemicals on your skin. Your skin being the bodies largest organ.
Guess where all the toxins end up ?

It's all on the internet. Look it up for yourselves.

Be cafeful people!

Use OLIVE OIL.....................

Why do we need the FDA? The information is available but the sun worshipers won't read it. This is from Consumer Reports.org website:

July 2007 send to a friend printable version
Sunscreens: Some are short on protection
Woman holding No-Ad Sunblock Lotion

When you rub sunscreen on, you assume you’re guarding against sunburn, skin cancer, and wrinkles. But research indicates that consumers might be getting less than half the sunburn protection shown on labels because they don’t apply enough. Moreover, our tests of 19 sunscreens found that some provide minimal protection against ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation, which can cause skin cancer and wrinkles. UVA is not considered in the sun-protection factor (SPF), which refers to protection against UVB radiation, a different wavelength that can also cause skin cancer, plus sunburn.
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Sunscreens

We tested the SPF of all the sunscreens 15 minutes after application. Products claiming water resistance were scored again after immersion in water (scores for the rest are without immersion). We also tested all products for UVA protection, without immersion. And we took the eight products that claim to have zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, which absorb UVA, and had an outside lab test them for microscopic particles of those compounds. Whether such nanoparticles pose health risks is a subject of debate.

What we found. All products came within 10 percent of meeting their claimed SPF. In theory, an SPF 30 sunscreen lets you stay in the sun, unburned by UVB, up to 30 times longer than without it. But people typically apply about 25 to 75 percent less sunscreen than the amount used in most sunscreen tests, including ours. And in our UVA tests, several products scored fair or poor, even if they met their SPF claim. As a result, we’ve weighted UVA scores most heavily in the Ratings.

Of the eight products tested for nanoparticles, all contained them, but our tests found no correlation between their presence and sun protection.

What to do. Choose a sunscreen with maximum protection against both UVA and UVB rays--preferably one labeled very water resistant or waterproof, with an SPF of at least 30. Two fine choices: Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch SPF 45 and No-Ad Sunblock Lotion Maximum SPF 45, a CR Best Buy.

Be sure to use enough. To get the labeled protection, an adult in a swimsuit needs to use 2 to 3 tablespoons of sunscreen. Reapply it every two hours and after swimming or substantial sweating. If you’re out all day, find some shade or add protective clothing, including a hat.

For decades now, more and more people have been avoiding the sun due to fear of skin cancer and wrinkels. Yet, more people than ever are developing skin cancer, and other types of cancers as well!

What if - not getting enough vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol) from sunlight (UVB) could actually have a detrimental effect on the cells ability to resist mutation (DNA repair)?

How much D3 is enough? 400 IU (USRDA) to ward off rickets, or 4,000. IU? If the skin can generate 20,000. IU in the sun in 20 minutes, then perhaps 400 IU is too low by a factor of 10.

Why would black people evolve white skin if sunlight (UVB - D3) were of so little importance -(400 IU)? What are the myriad other effects of D3 on the human body?

Either or? Sunworship or Sunavoidance? Or a third way of commonsense. Avoid sunburn (get out of the sun after twenty minutes - just when the skin begins to turn pink), and supplementation (two tabs of D3 (4k IU)) cost just 18 cents a day.(Sunlight and D3 are un- pantentable, thus big pharma (free markets) has no motive to spoon feed you this info).

A third way. Be Sheeple - be swayed by marketing (AgitProp). Or, use this wonderful new technology at your disposal (Internet) and use your own faculties of reason and critical analysis. See VitaminDCouncil.com

People be wise, this is all a scam, it's all about profit. Sunlight cuts getting cancer by almost 60%.When you get exposed to sunlight, your skin produces vitamin D, a cancer fighter. What really cause cancer is all those chemicals you rub onto your skin every time you put on sunscreen lotion, oil, etc.