So, do you wear Sunscreen?

[Land-O-LakesGal]

I have a trouble eczema spot on my right shin (nowhere else - how weird is that?!) and I've had really good results using a Nelsons graphites cream I got from my local health food store. I'd tried every cream from the pharmacist with no luck at all but this made a huge difference and really reduced the redness, which I had feared was scar tissue.

I wonder if you can find this product in the USA I have an ezema spot on the palm of my right hand that just will not go away and my poor son has his on his feet so bad that last summer I thought he had gotten athletes foot turned out it was eczema the stuff the dermitalogist gave us works for a week so we put it on for a week then it clears up for a week them we put it on for a week and so on.....

 

[lindylady]

I wear a facial cream with sunscreen every day. When my limbs are exposed in the summer, I wear at least spf 50, but I hate that sunscreen smell. Oh well, it's much better than dealing with premature aging and skin cancer later on down the road.

Does sunscreen have the ability to keep one from tanning, or just from burning? I'm African-American, but I always manage to get a bit of a tan whenever I venture out in the sun for even two minutes, sunscreen slathered on and all.

 

[lolly_loisides]

Does sunscreen have the ability to keep one from tanning, or just from burning?

Tanning, burning, it's all the same thing - sun damage. Sun screen helps, but your best bet is to cover up & stay out of the sun when it's at it's strongest.

 

[Kiri]

No I don't, for 1, I've never had a burn in my life, I just tan. And 2 it has been discovered that sunscreen causes cancer as well. Of course facts such as that are not generally spread by the media as they don't much care about your actual health. However, I've heard that there are natural sunscreens without the cancer causing agents, I have yet to buy any though. I'm rather broke at the moment.

 

[Lady Cecilia]

The sun causes cancer, sunscreen causes cancer... Unfortunately everything seems to cause cancer somehow so in this case I'll just have to choose for the lesser of two evils, which for me is definitely sunscreen. I'm very UV sensitive, never tan, always get burned/blisters/rash immediately without protection, so I'd rather go with the SPF50 and a big sunhat than never leave the house in summer.

 

[olive bleu]

i use it on my arms and legs, but honestly, not on my face.everything I've tried stings my eyes.I try to remember to wear a wide brim hat instead.