Sunblock?

[chiwawa626]

What exactly does it protect you from, i know it lessens chances of sunburn, but does it keep you from gettin darker...?

 

[Zrom999]

Usually does both.

 

[dighn]

i beilieve it protects you from the uv which both could harm you and tans you among another things

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: dighn
i beilieve it protects you from the uv which both harms and tans you

right on

on a side note I heard you have to buy new sun block every year because the active ingredients degrade (or so my pharmacist frfiend tells me).

Cheers,
Vic

 

[Marauder-]

Originally posted by: Aquaman

Originally posted by: dighn
i beilieve it protects you from the uv which both harms and tans you

right on

on a side note I heard you have to buy new sun block every year because the active ingredients degrade (or so my pharmacist frfiend tells me).

Cheers,
Vic

Wow - that's actually nice to know. I've been using the same batch for my snowboarding trips for the past 3 seasons. I guess it's time to get some new stuff.

On the note of getting darker, you'll still get darker although w/o the burns.

 

[TheCorm]

I bought a new bottle but was gonna use up last years too...I had a hunch it might have gone "off" but was being stingy....off down the supermarket with me for another bottle.

Anyone have a link to a report that tells you what ingredients in the sunblock to avoid? I know that some cheaper sunblock contains unwanted chemicals of some sort.

 

[ragazzo]

Originally posted by: Aquaman

Originally posted by: dighn
i beilieve it protects you from the uv which both harms and tans you

right on

on a side note I heard you have to buy new sun block every year because the active ingredients degrade (or so my pharmacist frfiend tells me).

Cheers,
Vic

i guess i could believe it since sunblocks are based on seaweeds (protective layer on seaweeds) heh

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: Aquaman

Originally posted by: dighn i beilieve it protects you from the uv which both harms and tans you

right on on a side note I heard you have to buy new sun block every year because the active ingredients degrade (or so my pharmacist frfiend tells me). Cheers, Vic

I'd like to see some credible information that substantiates it before believing it, and to what real affect time actually has on which active ingredients.

I used some 15 stuff that was 5 years old in the caribbean recently that protected me better than a brand name that I bought down there when I ran out. They were different brands, but either case, I had great results with the old stuff.