Beauty

[SurferWife]

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@teganslaw wrote:

Some dermatologists say to apply sunscreen while indoors. They say that the sun's rays can penetrate through the windows, but that seems like overload. I don't know of anyone who wears sunscreen indoors. I only apply sunscreen if I'm out in the sun for several hours. 

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@teganslaw 

Oh, good grief.  That is serious overload!!  Why don't we keep our shades shut and lights turned off & live in the dark?  Honest to Pete, I want some sun and I'm not going to apply sunscreen to sit at my desk for 8-10 hours a day or even to walk to the mailbox.  Like you, I apply it when I know that I'm going to be outside for an extended period of time.

[Icegoddess]

Most days it's just what's in my moisturizer and none on my body.  If I'm going to be outside I'll pull out the Neutrogena Dry Touch and slater it on.....once.  i don't reapply.  My back yard is shady, and it's more than one layer of shade.  There's no bouncing off of sun.  I do wear long pants year round.  

I had a full body look-see last year and the dermatologist said I had beautiful skin.  

Everything in moderation. 

[Pook]

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@San Antonio Gal wrote:

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@Pook wrote:

.  Many derms and drs have said not necessary and really good to spend at least an hour in direct sun light with no sunscreen or block to get beneficial vit D from the sun. 

I've never heard of a doctor recommeding to spend an hour in direct sunlight with no protection.  I won't burn and many others would too.  A hour in the sun without protection could be bad.

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Of course common sense says that if someone is prone to burning easily, use a protectant!  Many I know with cancer are told to get at least an hour of direct sunlight between 10 am and noon or after 2 pm. 

This whole  scare that says sunblock and high spf screen is needed is like over the years the false belief that eggs and butter are not good for you.  There are many examples of stuff like this being falsely pushed or taken to extremes!  When I had 3 broken bones in my arm I was told to sit in the sun to get the healing of natural vitamin D.   

[Harpa]

I try to have a more "common sense" approach about using ss. There are things that deplete one of vitamin D: latitude, medications, weight, ethnicity, age, overall health....

Instead of the hour, though, I think 15 minutes is the general recommendation for natural sunlight D. If I had maladies it probably should be longer.

[teganslaw]

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@MG Chris wrote:

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@San Antonio Gal wrotI follow several Derms and Plastic Surgeons. They had a big conference a couple of months the ago and a lot of the ones I follow were there. They did a man-on-the-street type Q&A TikToks with them. One of the questions was physical or mineral sunscreen, every one of them said physical. 

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Mineral and physical sunscreen are the same thing, so how could it be mineral OR physical sunscreen? Maybe you meant chemical or mineral (otherwise known as physical.) I'm not sure which of these two was mentioned more often.Using both different names for the same type can be confusing. 

[JeanLouiseFinch]

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@Harpa wrote:

I try to have a more "common sense" approach about using ss. There are things that deplete one of vitamin D: latitude, medications, weight, ethnicity, age, overall health....

Instead of the hour, though, I think 15 minutes is the general recommendation for natural sunlight D. If I had maladies it probably should be longer.

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15-20 minutes is the recommendation I've heard as well, @Harpa   I've also heard that one needs to have as much skin exposed as possible. If wearing long sleeves and pants, only having your face and hands exposed, it reduces how much Vitamin D actually gets absorbed. One will require more time in the sun, to get the benefits, but that also means extending the UV exposure on the parts that are exposed.

[MG Chris]

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@teganslaw wrote:

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@MG Chris wrote:

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@San Antonio Gal wrotI follow several Derms and Plastic Surgeons. They had a big conference a couple of months the ago and a lot of the ones I follow were there. They did a man-on-the-street type Q&A TikToks with them. One of the questions was physical or mineral sunscreen, every one of them said physical. 

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Mineral and physical sunscreen are the same thing, so how could it be mineral OR physical sunscreen? Maybe you meant chemical or mineral (otherwise known as physical.) I'm not sure which of these two was mentioned more often.Using both different names for the same type can be confusing. 

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Sorry chemical sunscreen was recommended each time over mineral. 

[SharkE]

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@MG Chris wrote:

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@SharkE wrote:

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@SilleeMee wrote:

I have windows on my house that have special glass which filters out damaging UV so things and people inside don't get irradiated. I didn't buy them for that reason, but it's one of the benefits of having that 'special glass' 

I also have tinted windows in my car, not the windshields of course, and that helps filter out UV rays also.

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They won't let U have in Tx.

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My apartment faces the south. The whole wall (10 ft high)  has floor to ceiling windows. They have a UV film on the windows and the transitions on my glasses still changes during the day. So I know I am still getting UV  and wear sunscreen even when I am home.

My car has the limo tint and you cannot see inside and my esthetician told me I still need to wear sunscreen and that I am still exposed to UV.

I never used to wear sunscreen. I lived in the South for many years and did yard work and laid in the pool and baked. The tanner I was the happier I was and I am very fair. I have had eight skin cancers removed and spent a small fortune on lasers, RF micro-needling, and other anti-aging treatments. The left side of my face has some crepe skin and my esthetician said it is from driving without sunscreen.  Wear sunscreen! 

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I went to Coolibar and bought bunch of sunscreen masks I can wear them when driving. I look like a bank robber LOL so I got around that TX restriction. I wear

out in yard too on the rare times I spend any time out there. Hire out the mowing.

Sun bleaches your hair too. Can't win !

[monicakm]

@Shanus 

There is no need for this to be difficult.  If the sun is such a monster/bad thing, just stay out of it.  Works for me

[monicakm]

@SharkE 

They won't let U have in Tx.

I didn't ask a state trooper for permission, I just did it.  I've never been stopped for it and the times I've been stopped for something else, they have never mentioned it.