Beauty

[summer]

You're welcome, Colonel Meow. And I agree with Irish that it's a little sneaky of them to only highlight the zinc content on the main page.

On a side note, when it comes to SPF factor, I have heard doctors say that SPF 30 is plenty enough, because anything above that provides only miniscule additional benefit.

An excerpt from WebMD:

The SPF rating is a measure of the time it would take you to sunburn if you were not wearing sunscreen as opposed to the time it would take with sunscreen on.

"SPF is not a consumer-friendly number," says Florida dermatologist James M. Spencer, MD. "It is logical for someone to think that an SPF of 30 is twice as good as an SPF of 15 and so on. But that is not how it works."

According to Spencer, an SPF 15 product blocks about 94% of UVB rays; an SPF 30 product blocks 97% of UVB rays; and an SPF 45 product blocks about 98% of rays.

"After that, it just gets silly," he says.

Sunscreens with higher SPF ratings block slightly more UVB rays, but none offers 100% protection.

[Colonel Meow]

Bump due to an ongoing thread. Sorry, I didn't know how to link this on the current thread, put there is pertinent info here!

[HappyDaze]

Colonel Meow, that isn't the same Elta that I was writing about. As I said, the Elta Pure SPF 47 IS physical sunscreen only. I didn't say the SPF 46 one