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4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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Re: 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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Post by hilariously »

gibspaulding wrote: post #10
OptionOfT wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your clothes still need to have a certain SPF, and you're not gonna wear gloves when 100 outside are you?

Just about any shirt is going to have a higher spf/upf than any normal sunscreen. Also who puts sunscreen on their hands?? A long sleeve sunshirt with a hood or better yet a floppy hat is where it’s at. I have a couple of the Colombia PFG ones that I wear for working outside, though I’d like to see if I can find something cotton instead since I’m not a huge fan of synthetic fibers.

I put sunscreen on my hands or I will have completely burnt hands. There's many of us who cant have more than about an hour in direct sunlight (and sometimes much less) before redness and soon burning occurs.

Re: 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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Post by XorNot »

gibspaulding wrote: post #10
OptionOfT wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your clothes still need to have a certain SPF, and you're not gonna wear gloves when 100 outside are you?

Just about any shirt is going to have a higher spf/upf than any normal sunscreen. Also who puts sunscreen on their hands?? A long sleeve sunshirt with a hood or better yet a floppy hat is where it’s at. I have a couple of the Colombia PFG ones that I wear for working outside, though I’d like to see if I can find something cotton instead since I’m not a huge fan of synthetic fibers.

While generally true, it's worth remembering that thin shirts can have an SPF as low as 50 or so, which isn't much.

Re: 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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Post by hollerith »

XorNot wrote: post #12
gibspaulding wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just about any shirt is going to have a higher spf/upf than any normal sunscreen. Also who puts sunscreen on their hands?? A long sleeve sunshirt with a hood or better yet a floppy hat is where it’s at. I have a couple of the Colombia PFG ones that I wear for working outside, though I’d like to see if I can find something cotton instead since I’m not a huge fan of synthetic fibers.

While generally true, it's worth remembering that thin shirts can have an SPF as low as 50 or so, which isn't much.

It means only 2% of the harmful rays (UVA) are getting through the shirt or alternatively the skin under the shirt can spend 50 times as long in the sun as it could without any protection.

Re: 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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Post by adambatkin »

gibspaulding wrote: post #10
OptionOfT wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your clothes still need to have a certain SPF, and you're not gonna wear gloves when 100 outside are you?

Just about any shirt is going to have a higher spf/upf than any normal sunscreen. Also who puts sunscreen on their hands?? A long sleeve sunshirt with a hood or better yet a floppy hat is where it’s at. I have a couple of the Colombia PFG ones that I wear for working outside, though I’d like to see if I can find something cotton instead since I’m not a huge fan of synthetic fibers.

People who don't enjoy sunburns on their hands put sunscreen on their hands.

Re: 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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Post by ViscountPenguin »

gibspaulding wrote: post #10
OptionOfT wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your clothes still need to have a certain SPF, and you're not gonna wear gloves when 100 outside are you?

Just about any shirt is going to have a higher spf/upf than any normal sunscreen. Also who puts sunscreen on their hands?? A long sleeve sunshirt with a hood or better yet a floppy hat is where it’s at. I have a couple of the Colombia PFG ones that I wear for working outside, though I’d like to see if I can find something cotton instead since I’m not a huge fan of synthetic fibers.

Nearly everyone I know puts sunscreen on their hands. Here in Australia, the world melanoma capital, sun safety is drilled into you as a kid, to the extent that "no hat no play" used to be official policy in most schools.

Re: 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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Post by mil22 »

BEMT is the first new ingredient allowed by the FDA since the 1990s. It's meaningful but a very narrow decision. The FDA still has not approved any of the following sunscreens that have been widely used outside of the US, in some cases for decades:

- DHHB / Uvinul A Plus

- EHT / Uvinul T150

- MBBT / Tinosorb M

- Iscotrizinol / Uvasorb HEB

- Drometrizole trisiloxane - Mexoryl XL

- Methoxypropylamino cyclohexenylidene ethoxyethylcyanoacetate - Mexoryl 400

- Polysilicone-15 - Parsol SLX

- Disodium phenyl dibenzimidazole tetrasulfonate - Neo Heliopan AP

- Tris-biphenyl triazine - Tinosorb A2B

- Phenylene bis-diphenyltriazine - TriAsorB

- Diethylhexyl syringylidene malonate (photostabilizer)

If you live in the US, you are quite literally taking a risk with your health using US-made sunscreens. Luckily brands like Beauty of Joseon (Korean) and many others are readily available through sites like Yamibuy.

Re: 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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Post by borski »

gibspaulding wrote: post #10
OptionOfT wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your clothes still need to have a certain SPF, and you're not gonna wear gloves when 100 outside are you?

Just about any shirt is going to have a higher spf/upf than any normal sunscreen. Also who puts sunscreen on their hands?? A long sleeve sunshirt with a hood or better yet a floppy hat is where it’s at. I have a couple of the Colombia PFG ones that I wear for working outside, though I’d like to see if I can find something cotton instead since I’m not a huge fan of synthetic fibers.

I put sunscreen on my hands.

Re: 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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Post by gacgacgac »

gibspaulding wrote: post #10
OptionOfT wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your clothes still need to have a certain SPF, and you're not gonna wear gloves when 100 outside are you?

Just about any shirt is going to have a higher spf/upf than any normal sunscreen. Also who puts sunscreen on their hands?? A long sleeve sunshirt with a hood or better yet a floppy hat is where it’s at. I have a couple of the Colombia PFG ones that I wear for working outside, though I’d like to see if I can find something cotton instead since I’m not a huge fan of synthetic fibers.

Who puts sunscreen on their hands? People in the sun who want to avoid wrinkles and burns and skin cancer on their hands.

If it's exposed skin, it gets sunscreen.

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