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This is just a note of caution. Even if a product says that is it combined with sun screen, that is not accepted by US FDA. Sunscreens should be sepearte product indicating its SPF factor. We all ignore taking care about sun screens in young and middle ages. But skin cancer stikes at any time and tehn if it is malignant, it kills with great pain. Please take care about the sun screen lotion you people are using.
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I am glad to see that someone else is worried about protecting themselves from the sun. I go to the ocean and see hundreds of people still putting oils on to get that dark, skin harming tan. Many don't realize the harm they are doing.
To add a little more info, you should use sun protection that protects against both UVA & UVB. The FDA has approved 3 ingredients that are both UVA & UVB absorbers/blockers: Octocrylene, Titanium Dioxide, and Zinc Oxide.
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I wonder if any of you know how skin cancer looks. why not search the net for some photographs for skin cancer? Pl. be warned that some of them will be very difficult to view. Life is precios. please experiment with everything, but not sun or sun screens.
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Yes, it is horrifying- equally troubling to me is the number of well-educated women who consider themselves health conscious who go to the tanning salon and sit in those UV beds or have chemicals sprayed on their skin.
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I posted this under "Natural Sun Protection" also but I think it is so important for people to read, I am posting it again. This was taken from Dr. Mercola's website:
Sunscreen is regulated by the FDA as an over-the-counter drug because it contains several "active" ingredients. The debate over toxicity of these active ingredients is still a controversy.
One study found that the main chemical used in sun lotions to filter out ultraviolet light may be TOXIC and the chemical's toxicity doubled when exposed to sunlight. Octyl methoxycinnamate (OMC), which is present in 90 percent of sunscreen brands, was found to kill mouse cells even at low doses in a study by Norwegian scientists. When researchers shone a lamp for two hours to simulate midday sunshine, even more cells died.
And a study in the April 2004 Journal of Chromatography found that there is significant penetration of all sunscreen agents they studied into the skin. So, it's a fair to assume that when you use sunscreen your body is absorbing synthetic chemicals.
And if you follow the recommendations on the sunscreen's label to apply generous amounts of the product every few hours, it's likely you will be absorbing your fair share of potentially toxic chemicals. It takes a stretch of the imagination to believe that all of these chemicals will not have any effect on your system.
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Here's an article I wrote on sunscreens
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SPF.. only means Sun Protection Factor.. and the number that follows ie:SPF40 .. dictates that its only safe for 40 minute exposure after that your on your own.. SPF45.. 45 minutes and so on or reapply.. Yup the sun does do some awful damage for sure..
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What you say here is quite different from the article referred above. We need more clarification here.
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I don't know about the scientific truth about what you are saying. But you are surely making lot of sense.Your post is making me think. Do you know if any body has raised this issue with FDA? It needs to be raised. I would be making some investigation on what you have stated. thank you for your post.
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A well written article.
Did you see the post about absorption of sun screen chemicals by the human body? What is your opinion?
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All of us have raised few issues about sunscreens in this thread.
I would wish to summarise them here-
1. What is SPF?
2. does SPF differ for different skin colors?
I don't think so
3. What about the chemicals used in sun screens? do they not enter the body? If yes, how has FDA approved them?
4. what about natural sun screens? do they really work?
In addition to these I want to draw your attention to- clothing and its SPF.
One more important issue i wish to raise here- It is found that skin cancer is seen in adults , who were exposed to sun rays as children till 10 years of age. This is very important information. If you look at some ultraviolet photographs that show the innder damage, you can see this clealy. So please keep your children very safe from sun. Maximum damge gets done by age 10.
I am researching more on the issues raised here and will be meeting a dermatologist about them. I will keep on posting my thoughts here and hope to learn more from all of you.
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SPF is an abbreviation for Sun Protection Factor
SPF does differ for different skin colors, not as far as sunscreen goes, but as far as a person's own skin goes. Darker-skinned people have more melanin in their skin than lighter-skinned people. These varying levels are what makes different skin tones and shades. If you've got darker skin, you have a higher natural tolerance to withstand sun exposure than people who are paler than you in skin tone.
Here's that talks about the FDA, sunscreen and the chemicals in it.
As far as natural sunscreens go, do their ingredients protect you against UVA and UVB radiation? If they do, great, they'll work. If not, you'll probably just wind up aplying something oily to yourself and burning more.
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Hello Rae_BodyArtPagan, you have said-
SPF does differ for different skin colors, not as far as sunscreen goes, but as far as a person's own skin goes.
I am sorry, but I could not understand what you said in this statement. could you please explain? Thank you so much.
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Good question chmohatta.
Everything and anything you put on your skin is absorbed by your skin. I'm not crazy about the chemicals being absorbed but it's a good way of protecting yourself against the UVA and UVB rays.
I haven't checked but I wonder if there is a more a natural sunscreen/sunblock product out there.
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