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"Sunscreen" didn't exist for millions and millions of years, yet we are still here, let that sink in for a moment.
I'm skeptical of putting any artificial/man-made/unnatural chemicals into or onto my body, i take the approach of "just leave it alone". Just be sensible is all, moderation like with anything else.
That's fortunate for you.
I, and many others, however, deal with sun-damaged skin and resultant cancers all the time. Been doing chemo and having spots cut off for 6 years.
ME TOO!!! The minimum I use is SPF#50! Ubby Juice stated there were millions of years when sunscreen didn't exist, well that's true of many things but I don't live in the stone ages so why act like it?
Well, you weren't able to jump on a jet and fly to another continent in the stone age either.
Many people whose genetics was established in low-sun nordic countries now live in places where the genetic stone age population was very dark skinned. (Australia for example)
Indigenous people also used various methods to avoid sun damage like clothing, ash, staying out of the sun in the mid-day and so forth.
All this hysteria and fear over something completely natural and totally harmless (in moderation)
When you have to be awake while your dermatologist cuts a quarter-sized hole from your nose and then cauterizes the flesh while you smell it and feel the pressure of the iron, then sit and wait for an hour while they look at the piece they cut to make sure all margins are clear, and find out they didn't get it all, so here we go again...
I'm outside enough that I get a base tan in May and don't have this problem. Never go out for the first time in June without sunscreen. I'm not going to lather up in sunblock all summer to keep myself pasty white either. Its the burning that does the most damage. Build up a base tan.
I'm outside enough that I get a base tan in May and don't have this problem. Never go out for the first time in June without sunscreen. I'm not going to lather up in sunblock all summer to keep myself pasty white either. Its the burning that does the most damage. Build up a base tan.
Any tan is a sign the skin is being damaged. Some people, depending on skin type, do not tan at all.
I'm outside enough that I get a base tan in May and don't have this problem. Never go out for the first time in June without sunscreen. I'm not going to lather up in sunblock all summer to keep myself pasty white either. Its the burning that does the most damage. Build up a base tan.
I have been doing that for over 60 years.
71 years old and I did that this year again.
Bareback all summer except for church on Sunday
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