You mean this isn't a healthy tan?
Posted on 05/06/2019 12:42:03 PM PDT by SMGFan
I never used sunscreen on the kids. They played outdoors and got sunshine and fresh air. I never bought into the nonsense that a normal amount of sunshine was bad for you - you need your Vitamin D. Now, baking in the sun for hours on end to get a tan....that’s another story. I wouldn’t recommend that.
True. That also explains why kids who are raised around animals have fewer sicknesses.
You mean this isn't a healthy tan?
Enjoy every sandwich.
I have no idea if sun screen is at all dangerous but I’d never put it on. God put a big poisonous star in the sky? And: Slathering a chemical substance on a major portion of the largest organ of the body...is a GOOD idea? Not me.
This is the answer! Why hasn’t this been approved??
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,338626,00.html
Lol - is that a tan? Or mud? My kids often looked like that, due to mud, as well. Maybe mud is a natural sunscreen!
My bad, it is approved, but not covered by insurance I guess.
I was bronze all summer long, as a blonde child and teenager. Today, I've had a squamous cell carcinoma removed from my face--no sequelae, not even a scar--and am now applying 5-fluororuacil by night, sunscreen by day.
When I was off at college (13 years) and then working all the time, I was never in the sun. I felt victimized. Everybody else (it seemed) was sailing, basking on the beaches, driving convertibles! I'm lucky I couldn't do all those things.
Yes, relatively small quantities of sunscreen can bleach acres of coral... but scientists continue to blame it on global warming more than a decade after that link was discovered. Ironically, much of the bleaching and decline and death of remote coral reefs was probably caused by the very same scientists studying the reefs.
Aluminum, not zinc.
Here’s some sauce on that claim. The opposing side says natural oils do not block all UV, REEEEEE!. So what, you NEED UV.
http://naturalsociety.com/ditch-toxic-sunscreen-use-coconut-oil-instead/
Opposition Mayo Clinic article here. Article says coconut oil doesn’t block all UV. You do not want to block all UV.
https://mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/myth-or-fact-coconut-is-an-effective-sunscreen
Think about how we are blocking UV at every turn.
Your car wind shield.
Your sunglasses.
Your house windows.
Sunscreen.
And we wonder why we’re always sick.
Red raspberry oil (expensive) is a stronger SPF than coconut oil. You can also get natural non-nano zinc oxide if you want to make a coconut oil based super screen.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073DL77XM/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=coconutmama-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B073DL77XM&linkId=4ff6244c95fcd62d5ef79fff5ae0b899
Good recipe from Coconut Mamma:
https://thecoconutmama.com/coconut-oil-sunscreen/
We are supposed to have UV. You NEED sun to be healthy. Also remember, if it goes ON you, it goes IN you. Ask yourself, “would I eat it?”
PS I live at the beach and have extensively used my neighbors and guests as guinea pigs for my formulations with great success.
Anyways...it's Aluminum Compounds...and it clogs the pores...no sweat.
Not my biggest issue in life. ;-)
Thank you. I went off researching natural oils with spf and learned Red Raspberry and Carrot oils have most.
I’m going to try and sit out for 15-20 minutes early in the day. Kind of testing my skin for a reaction (gvhd) and want some vitamin D. I won’t lie, I want some color, especially on my legs.
Thanks.
You certainly saved yourself down the road. I was pretty fortunate. I took care of my skin early on. But, was still tan up till 50. Not leather tan, just good color. Never used sun screen. Then I had a stem cell transplant. Chemo and the meds did more aging than any sun did.
I miss the sun. If there’s one thing I could change about having a donor stem cell transplant- it’s being able to enjoy the sun again. The sun and being outside was every bit a part of who I am. I’ll get over it. I have no choice. It’s an acceptance process and figuring out my new life.
I just went looking at the spf levels. Coconut oil has 4-5. Its carrot oil and raspberry seed oil that’s over 30.
I think I remember being somewhere before birth. It was a beautiful happy place and loving beings were there. I look forward to returning to that place and those beings.
Some say mother’s milk is bad because it can contain cancer cells.
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