Sunscreen slide:
I have never used sunscreen even though I’m a redhead with the skin of a redhead. I went to my dermatologist a week ago for a skin cancer check and showed her how my arms were broken out from the sun. The first time or two I get in the sun in spring/summer, I break out in a rash on my arms. She gave me some sunscreen samples. I will only use it once or twice while outside until the rash stops. If it’s not too hot, I wear one of my husband’s thin long-sleeved shirts instead.
One thing she said that was interesting is that she can’t count the amount of people she has seen this year with rashes. She said mine was the only sun allergy rash, but she has seen a multitude of people with first time eczema and other rashes. She said it’s an epidemic, but she doesn’t know the cause. I could have told her, but I didn’t.
Solar keratinitis.
It’s a thing.
Aha, maybe that's why my dermatologist, out of the blue, suggested I start a two week course of using a corrosive cream on the back of my hands for precancerous skin problems. I said OK and bought the stuff, but then decided not to use it. That decision was based on a seemingly thin testing record the creme's packaging told of, and also because the name of the stuff is similar to a very dangerous acid that can cause bones to soften.
She may have assumed I had recently become more at risk due to current events, and that I would be part of the epidemic you related. Fortunately, that's not the case.
Just make a natural sunscreen and don’t worry about that poison. Coconut oil alone is SPF 8. To the White Coat you should have gone Cough*vaccine*cough.
Sunscreen slide:
I lived in Hawaii for thirty years.
Wore sunscreen every day.
Unlike a few of my co-workers, I never missed a day of work due to a bad sunburn. I have known people to be hospitalized for sunburn. I can’t tell you how many tourists I came across who just HAD to get a tan before they went home and would up blistered and miserable or worse their whole vacation.
The tropical sun is nothing to mess with Haole Boy.
Well I use sunscreen, liberally. Im too old to let my skin get sunburnt and someones gotta tend the lawn, etc
so far its never bothered me and it works a champ!